IP Library Granted Patent US 10,243,598
Granted Patent B2
US 10,243,598 · App. 15/460,993 · Granted Mar 26, 2019

Systems for integrated self-interference cancellation

Inventors: Wilhelm Steffen Hahn (Los Altos, CA); Alfred Riddle (San Jose, CA); Ernie Landi (Milpitas, CA)
Assignee: Kumu Networks, Inc.
H04B1/10H04B1/0475H04B1/44H04B15/00H04L5/14
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Patent No.
US 10,243,598
App. No.
15/460,993
Granted
Mar 26, 2019
Kind
B2
Abstract

A system for integrated self-interference cancellation, comprising a transmit coupler, coupled to a transmit signal, that samples the transmit signal to create a sampled transmit signal; an analog self-interference canceller, coupled to the transmit coupler, comprising a controller; a signal divider, that splits the sampled transmit signal into a set of signal components; a set of phase shifters, wherein a phase shifter of the set shifts a signal component of the set of signal components by a total phase shift value; a set of scalers, wherein a scaler of the set scales the signal component by a total scale factor; a signal combiner, that combines the set of signal components into a self-interference cancellation signal; and a receive coupler, coupled to a receive signal, that combines the self-interference cancellation signal with the receive signal to remove a portion of self-interference present in the receive signal.

Claims (34)

1. A system for integrated self-interference cancellation, comprising:

a transmit coupler, communicatively coupled to a transmit signal of a full-duplex wireless transceiver, that samples the transmit signal to create a sampled transmit signal;

an analog self-interference canceller, coupled to the transmit coupler, the analog self-interference canceller comprising:

a controller;

a signal divider, that splits the sampled transmit signal into a set of signal components, the set of signal components transmitted by way of a set of transmit paths;

a set of phase shifters, coupled to the set of transmit paths, wherein a phase shifter of the set of phase shifters shifts a signal component of the set of signal components by a total phase shift value; wherein the phase shifter comprises a set of phase shift stages, each stage having a stage phase shift value, the set connected to the phase shifter by a set of switches; wherein the total phase shift value is set by a state configuration of the set of switches and the stage phase shift values of the set of phase shift stages;

a set of scalers, coupled to the set of transmit paths, wherein a scaler of the set of scalers scales the signal component by a total scale factor;

a signal combiner, coupled to the set of transmit paths, that combines the set of signal components into a self-interference cancellation signal; and

a receive coupler, communicatively coupled to a receive signal of the full duplex wireless transceiver, that combines the self-interference cancellation signal with the receive signal to remove at least a first portion of self-interference present in the receive signal.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the controller generates the state configuration.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the controller generates the state configuration by computing a desired phase shift output of the phase shifter and selecting the state configuration resulting in a closest total phase shift value to the desired phase shift output.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the state configuration is selected from a set of state configurations determined according to a hybrid thermometer code.

5. The system of claim 4 , wherein each stage phase shift value is predetermined such that the set of state configurations forms a piecewise linear approximation of a phase shift curve.

6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the set of phase shift stages comprises a subset of coarse phase shift stages and a subset of fine phase shift stages; wherein the subset of coarse phase shift stages corresponds to a binary component of the hybrid thermometer code; wherein the subset of fine phase shift stages corresponds to a thermometer component of the hybrid thermometer code.

7. The system of claim 2 , wherein the controller generates the state configuration by incrementing the state configuration according to a hybrid thermometer code.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein each stage phase shift value is predetermined such that incrementing the state configuration the set of state configurations results in total phase shift values approximating a piecewise linear approximation of a phase shift curve.

9. The system of claim 2 , wherein each phase shift stage comprises an LC network.

10. A system for integrated self-interference cancellation, comprising:

a transmit coupler, communicatively coupled to a transmit signal of a full-duplex wireless transceiver, that samples the transmit signal to create a sampled transmit signal;

an analog self-interference canceller, coupled to the transmit coupler, the analog self-interference canceller comprising:

a controller;

a signal divider, that splits the sampled transmit signal into a set of signal components, the set of signal components transmitted by way of a set of transmit paths;

a set of phase shifters, coupled to the set of transmit paths, wherein a phase shifter of the set of phase shifters shifts a signal component of the set of signal components by a total phase shift value;

a set of scalers, coupled to the set of transmit paths, wherein a scaler of the set of scalers scales the signal component by a total scale factor; wherein the scaler comprises a set of scaler stages, each stage having a stage scale factor, the set connected to the scaler by a set of switches; wherein the total scale factor is set by a state configuration of the set of switches and the stage scale factors of the set of scaler stages;

a signal combiner, coupled to the set of transmit paths, that combines the set of signal components into a self-interference cancellation signal; and

a receive coupler, communicatively coupled to a receive signal of the full duplex wireless transceiver, that combines the self-interference cancellation signal with the receive signal to remove at least a first portion of self-interference present in the receive signal.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the controller generates the state configuration.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the controller generates the state configuration by computing a desired scaler output of the scaler and selecting the state configuration resulting in a closest total scale factor to the desired scaler output.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the state configuration is selected from a set of state configurations determined according to a hybrid thermometer code.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein each stage scale factor is predetermined such that the set of state configurations forms a piecewise linear approximation of a scaling curve.

15. The system of claim 13 , wherein the set of scaler stages comprises a subset of coarse scaler stages and a subset of fine scaler stages; wherein the subset of coarse scaler stages corresponds to a binary component of the hybrid thermometer code; wherein the subset of fine scaler stages corresponds to a thermometer component of the hybrid thermometer code.

16. The system of claim 11 , wherein the controller generates the state configuration by incrementing the state configuration according to a hybrid thermometer code.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein each stage scale factor is predetermined such that incrementing the state configuration the set of state configurations results in total scale factors approximating a piecewise linear approximation of a scaling curve.

18. The system of claim 11 , wherein each phase shift stage comprises a resistive attenuator.

Assignments (5)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2024
From: HAHN, WILHELM STEFFEN
To: KUMU NETWORKS, INC.
Reel/Frame 066956/0720 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2024
From: LANDI, ERNIE
To: KUMU NETWORKS, INC.
Reel/Frame 066956/0936 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 29, 2024
From: RIDDLE, ALFRED
To: KUMU NETWORKS, INC.
Reel/Frame 066957/0086 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 21, 2023
From: KUMU NETWORKS, INC.
To: QUALCOMM INCORPORATED
Reel/Frame 066090/0165 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Mar 16, 2017
From: HAHN, WILHELM STEFFEN; RIDDLE, ALFRED; LANDI, ERNIE
To: KUMU NETWORKS, INC.
Reel/Frame 041599/0916 →
Continuity (3)
Continuation 15269672 · Sep 19, 2016
Provisional Application 62240835 · Oct 13, 2015
Related Publication 20170187404A1 · Jun 29, 2017