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Method of synchronizing an independent data device of a wireless data communications system on an incident pulsed signal of the ultra wide band type, and corresponding independent data device

US7254202B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 31, 2004
Grant dateAug 7, 2007
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Expiry dateFeb 22, 2026

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B2001/6908
  • WIPO fieldTelecommunications
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An incident signal contains a preamble including a training sequence having a series of pulses whose polarity and time shifts are defined by respective polarity code and time-hopping code. A method includes a digital cross-correlation of the received signal with the training sequence. The cross-correlation algebraically sums in accordance with the polarity code windows of the received signal. The starting points of the windows are determined by the time-hopping code. The cross-correlation further includes detecting the end point of the preamble from the result of the digital cross-correlation. When the size of the receiving buffer, i.e., the size of the window is smaller than the number N of samples of each replica of the training sequence, it is particularly advantageous that the digital cross-correlation be performed iteratively in a block-by-block fashion. The computation of each block is split into M slices which are computed by algebraically summing windows N/M samples long.

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