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VDSL2 transmitter/receiver architecture

US8117250B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 29, 2006
Grant dateFeb 14, 2012
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Expiry dateJun 15, 2029

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/265
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The invention suggests a novel pipeline FFT/IFFT architecture that not only produces time-domain samples (after IFFT) but also pushes time-domain samples into FFT in a time-based sequential order. This reduces external memory requirement for buffering the time-domain samples. Also the design is based on a mixed radix-2 and radix-22 algorithm aiming at reducing number of multipliers and adders. Compared with other FFT/IFFT design methodologies such as radix-4, it achieves the minimum multiplier use, the minimum adder use and the minimum operating memory use. On the other hand, the design architecture not only can support different FFT/IFFT size required by different VDSL2 profiles but also utilizing a novel pipeline control mechanism to reduce logic switching at low-speed profiles. This effectively further reduces the power consumption at lower profiles and enables our VDSL2 digital chipsets to compete with ADSL2+ systems in terms of power consumption.

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