Low cost broadband wireless communication system
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1. A system for millimeter wave communications, which comprises:
- an indoor unit;
an outdoor unit in communication with the indoor unit and receiving and/or transmitting millimeter wave communications signals and including an intermediate frequency/modem circuit that processes the millimeter wave communications signals using a polar coordinate system of calculations.
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Abstract
This present invention includes an indoor unit (IDU) and compact outdoor unit (ODU) having an intermediate frequency/modem circuit, millimeter wave transceiver circuit, and digital interface between the IDU and the ODU capable of up to about 100 MBps data rate over at least about a 300 meter cable. The system uses a conversion to the polar coordinate system completes calculations in the polar coordinate system, reducing the computational requirements, and therefore, the size and cost of the system.
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45 Claims
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1. A system for millimeter wave communications, which comprises:
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an indoor unit;
an outdoor unit in communication with the indoor unit and receiving and/or transmitting millimeter wave communications signals and including an intermediate frequency/modem circuit that processes the millimeter wave communications signals using a polar coordinate system of calculations. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. An outdoor unit for millimeter wave communication, which comprises:
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a millimeter wave transceiver board comprising microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) chips; and
an intermediate frequency/modem board operable with the millimeter wave transceiver board and operable for processing millimeter wave communications signals using a polar coordinate system of calculations. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21)
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22. An outdoor unit for millimeter wave communications, which comprises:
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a housing;
a millimeter wave transceiver board contained in the housing and comprising microwave monolithic integrated circuit (MMIC) chips;
an intermediate frequency/modem board contained within the housing and operable with the millimeter wave transceiver board for processing millimeter wave communications signals; and
a circuit operable for detecting power and phase and computing predistortion coefficients for correcting any amplifier nonlinearity. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for millimeter wave communications using an outdoor unit and indoor unit in communication with each other, which comprises:
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transmitting and/or receiving a millimeter wave communications signal within an intermediate frequency/modem circuit that is operative for communicating with a millimeter wave transceiver circuit; and
processing the communications signal within the intermediate frequency/modem circuit using a polar coordinate system of calculations. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45)
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