Transmitter, receiver, method for transmitting and method for receiving
According to an embodiment, a transmitter is described comprising an input configured to receive a plurality of symbols to be transmitted and a timing circuit configured to associate each symbol with a symbol transmission period of a predefined sequence of symbol transmission periods, wherein the symbol transmission periods of the sequence of symbol transmission periods are at least partially different.
1. A receiver comprising:
an input configured to receive a sequence of symbols;
a timing circuit configured to associate each symbol of the received sequence of symbols with a respective symbol reception period of a predefined sequence of symbol reception periods;
wherein each successive symbol reception period of at least a sub-sequence of the predefined sequence of symbol reception periods increases.
2. The receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising a symbol reception circuit configured to determine for each symbol reception period a transmitted symbol from at least one part of the received sequence of symbols associated with the symbol reception period.
3. The receiver according to claim 2 , wherein the symbols are bits.
4. The receiver according to claim 1 , wherein each successive symbol reception period of the sub-sequence increases linearly.
5. The receiver according to claim 1 , wherein each successive symbol reception period of the sub-sequence increases hyperbolically.
6. The receiver according to claim 1 , being configured to receive the sequence of symbols over an asynchronous serial channel.
7. The receiver according to claim 1 , being configured to receive the sequence of symbols from a sender.
8. The receiver according to claim 7 , further comprising a synchronization circuit configured to perform a transmission timing synchronization with the sender.
9. The receiver according to claim 8 , wherein the timing circuit is configured to reuse the predefined sequence of symbol reception periods after a time of synchronization.
10. The receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising a memory in which information based on which the predefined sequence of symbol reception periods may be determined is pre-stored.
11. The receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising an oscillator configured to generate a reference timing signal and wherein the timing circuit is configured to determine the symbol reception periods based on the reference timing signal.
12. The receiver according to claim 11 , wherein the oscillator is configured to generate a frequency-modulated reference timing signal.
13. A method for receiving comprising:
receiving a sequence of symbols;
associating each symbol of the received sequence of symbols with a respective symbol reception period of a predefined sequence of symbol reception periods;
wherein each successive symbol reception period of at least a sub-sequence of the predefined sequence of symbol reception periods increases.