Transmit energy leakage control in a receiver

• US 9,203,462 B2
• Filed: 10/02/2013
• Issued: 12/01/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MaxLinear Communications, LLC (f/k/a Entropic Communications, LLC) (Maxlinear Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Entropic Communications, LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Petrovic, Branislav, Kons, Shachar, Tsatsanis, Michail
• Primary Examiner(s): Flores, Leon
• Application Number:
  US14/044,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20150092822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 790 Days
• Field of Search: 375/219, 375/221, 375/224, 375/226, 375/227, 375/229, 375/346, 455/63.1, 455/67.13, 455/114.2, 455/296, 455/501, 327/551
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/123 using adaptive balancing or compensation means adaptive filter circuits and algorithms H03H
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver

Abstract

Systems and methods for removing interference from a received signal. A model of a leakage path from a transmit section to a receive section is used to assist in designing a set of iterative filters to remove interference. Modeling the leakage path allows generation of the first approximation of the transfer function of the leakage path traversed by the signals coupled from the transmit section to the receive section. The first approximation narrows down the universe of possible distortions that might occur due to the transfer function of the leakage path. Narrowing down the universe of possible solutions makes the complexity of the interference control section more manageable. An iterative LMS function is used to further refine the coefficients of the adaptive filters.

Claims

1. A transceiver comprising:

transmit section, the transmit section generating a transmit signal;

a receive section;

a leakage path between the transmit section and receive section, such that at least some of the transmit signal is coupled to the receive section through the leakage path; and

an interference control section, comprising;

a first input coupled to the transmit section, wherein a signal received at the first input is a reference baseband transmission signal (RBTS);

a second input coupled to the receive section, wherein a signal received at the second input comprises a receive signal and a transmit interference signal from the leakage path;

one or more adaptive filters configured to generate an interference control signal based on the RBTS and a model of the leakage path, wherein the model of the leakage path is based on a first approximation of a transfer function for the leakage path;

circuitry for combining the generated interference control signal with the signal received at the second input, thereby generating an output signal; and

an output coupled to the receive section and configured to output the output signal, wherein the interference control section further comprises a third input for receiving a gain control signal generated by a transceiver controller.

2. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the circuitry is further configured to adjust the amplitude of the generated interference control signal based on the gain control signal prior to combining the generated interference control signal with the signal received at the second input.

3. The transceiver of claim 2, wherein the received gain control signal is synchronized to a gain control signal coupled to a power amplifier in the transmit section.

4. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the interference control section further comprises a coefficient adaptation circuit comprising:

an input coupled to the output signal;

and one or more outputs coupled to the one or more adaptive filters, wherein the coefficient adaption circuit determines one or more coefficients for the one or more adaptive filters.

5. The transceiver of claim 4, wherein each of the one or more adaptive filters comprises a weight setting register coupled to the or more outputs of the coefficient adaptation circuit, the weight setting register configured to store one or more coefficients received from the coefficient adaption circuit.

6. The transceiver of claim 4, wherein the coefficient adaption circuit further comprises a second input configured to receive the RBTS or a modulated version of the RBTS.

7. The transceiver of claim 5, wherein each of the one or more adaptive filters comprises a plurality of weighting circuits, each of the weighting circuits comprising an output, where a sum of the signals output by the plurality of weighting circuits is the interference control signal.

8. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the interference control section further comprises an upconverter configured to upconvert the RBTS to a same frequency as the transmit interference signal.

9. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the model of the leakage path is created during design of hardware of the transceiver.

10. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the model of the leakage path is created in a learning mode during operation of the transceiver using the one or more adaptive filters.

11. The transceiver of claim 10, wherein the adaptive filters continuously track characteristics of the signal coupled through the leakage path to adapt the model.

12. The transceiver of claim 1, further comprising a diplexer coupled to an output of the transmit section and an input of the receive section, and wherein the model of the leakage path comprises a first path representing a leakage through the diplexer.

13. The transceiver of claim 12, wherein the model of the leakage path further comprises a second path representing leakage between pins of a package that contains the transmit section and the receive section.

14. The transceiver of claim 13, wherein the model of the leakage path further comprises a third path representing an internal leakage within the package.

15. The transceiver of claim 14, wherein the package is an RF integrated circuited.

16. The transceiver of claim 14, wherein each of the three paths comprises a first transfer function representing a fundamental of a distortion that occurs to the transmit signal.

17. The transceiver of claim 16, wherein each of the three paths comprises a second transfer function representing a first harmonic of the distortion.

18. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the model of the leakage path represents the frequency response of the transmit signal coupled through the leakage path to the receive section.