Radar detection circuit for a WLAN transceiver
First Claim
1. A radio transceiver, comprising:
- radio from end circuitry operable to produce an ingoing communication signal having in-phase and quadrature-phase components on one or more receive signal paths;
analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operatively coupled to receive the ingoing communication signal, the ADC producing an ingoing digital signal having digital in-phase and quadrature-phase signal components;
one or more processors for processing the ingoing digital signal, wherein the one or more processors inhibit transmission of outgoing digital signals over frequency bands overlapping with radar frequency bands in response to detection of a traditional radar signal or in response to detection of a non-traditional radar signal;
a radar detection block operably disposed within each of the one or more receive signal paths to receive the ingoing digital signal and operable to detect presence of the traditional radar signal and the non-traditional radar signal in the ingoing digital signal, wherein the radar detection block;
detects presence of the traditional radar signal in the ingoing digital signal by detecting pulses having a period that corresponds to traditional radar signals; and
detects presence of the non-traditional radar signal in the ingoing digital signal by detecting pulses having a period that is substantially greater than pulses for traditional radar signals and by determining that the detected pulses having a period that is substantially greater than pulses for traditional radar signals are frequency modulation (FM) modulated.
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Abstract
A single chip radio transceiver includes circuitry that enables detection of radar signals to enable the radio transceiver to halt communications in overlapping communication bands to avoid interference with the radar transmitting the radar pulses. The radio transceiver is operable to evaluate a number of most and second most common pulse interval values to determine whether a traditional radar signal is present. The radio transceiver also is operable to FM demodulate and incoming signal to determine whether a non-traditional radar signal such as a bin-5 radar signal is present. After FM demodulation, the signal is averaged wherein a substantially large value is produced for non-traditional radar signals and a value approximately equal to zero is produced for a communication signal that is not FM modulated with a continuously increasing frequency signal. Gain control is used to limit incoming signal magnitude to a specified range of magnitudes.
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32 Claims
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1. A radio transceiver, comprising:
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radio from end circuitry operable to produce an ingoing communication signal having in-phase and quadrature-phase components on one or more receive signal paths; analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operatively coupled to receive the ingoing communication signal, the ADC producing an ingoing digital signal having digital in-phase and quadrature-phase signal components; one or more processors for processing the ingoing digital signal, wherein the one or more processors inhibit transmission of outgoing digital signals over frequency bands overlapping with radar frequency bands in response to detection of a traditional radar signal or in response to detection of a non-traditional radar signal; a radar detection block operably disposed within each of the one or more receive signal paths to receive the ingoing digital signal and operable to detect presence of the traditional radar signal and the non-traditional radar signal in the ingoing digital signal, wherein the radar detection block; detects presence of the traditional radar signal in the ingoing digital signal by detecting pulses having a period that corresponds to traditional radar signals; and detects presence of the non-traditional radar signal in the ingoing digital signal by detecting pulses having a period that is substantially greater than pulses for traditional radar signals and by determining that the detected pulses having a period that is substantially greater than pulses for traditional radar signals are frequency modulation (FM) modulated. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A multiple input multiple output (MIMO) radio transceiver, comprising:
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a first receive path comprising radio from end circuitry operable to produce a first ingoing digital signal; first radar detection block operably disposed to receive the first ingoing digital signal to detect presence of a radar signal and to inhibit transmission of outgoing digital signals over frequency bands overlapping with radar frequency bands in response to detection of the radar signal; a second receive path comprising radio from end circuitry operable to produce a second ingoing digital signal; second radar detection block operably disposed to receive the second ingoing digital signal to detect presence of the radar signal and to inhibit transmission of outgoing digital signals in response to detection of the radar signal; and wherein the first and second radar detection blocks each comprise logic for detecting traditional radar signals and non-traditional radar signals, wherein the first and second radar detection blocks are operable to detect presence of the non-traditional radar signal by detecting a pulse with a pulse period that is substantially longer than a traditional radar signal and having FM modulation. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20)
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21. A radio transceiver, comprising:
- a first receive signal path operable to produce an ingoing signal;
a baseband processor operably disposed to receive the ingoing signal to process the ingoing signal and to inhibit transmission of outgoing digital signals over frequency bands overlapping with radar frequency bands in response to detection of a non-traditional radar signal;a first radar detection circuit operable to receive the ingoing signal and to determine whether a non-traditional radar signal is present by determining whether the ingoing signal has a period that corresponds to a non-traditional radar signal and is FM demodulated, wherein the first radar detection circuit further includes; FM demodulation circuit operably disposed to receive the ingoing signal, to FM demodulate the ingoing signal and to determine whether the FM demodulated ingoing signal is characterized by a specified gain characteristic based on a continually increasing frequency of the non-traditional radar signal. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
- a first receive signal path operable to produce an ingoing signal;
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27. A method of detecting a non-traditional radar signal, comprising:
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producing I and Q digital waveform signals from a baseband filtering block;
producing a gain control signal;FM demodulating the I and Q digital waveform signals based in part upon the gain control signal; averaging the FM demodulated I and Q digital waveform signals; and evaluating the averaged FM demodulated I and Q digital waveform signals to determine presence of a non-traditional radar signal; and inhibiting transmission of outgoing digital signals over frequency bands overlapping with radar frequency bands in response to detection of the non-traditional radar signal. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31, 32)
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