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6 Parks near Wasilla, Alaska
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Wasilla, Alaska (map) | (907) 373-7286
Sites: 16 | Latest Rate: $25.00 | 1 Reviews
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Jun 2011 - $25.00
This was the filthiest park we have ever been in. Mostly full-time residents in derelict RVs. Out of 16 sites, only 2 were available. Sewer did not drain properly. Only positive was the large laundry facility. If we didn't need to do laundry, we would not have stayed. Their (old) ad on the Alaska Campground Owners Assn website indicates they're making improvements, but we saw none. We would not camp here again, nor would we recommend it to anyone. - JCMDT
Wasilla, Alaska (map) | (907) 376-5504
Sites: 125 | Latest Rate: $24.00 | 9 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $24.00
This is not a bad place to stop for a night or two. The Wi-Fi was excellent. Electricity (50 amp), water, and sewer were good, too. We didn't do laundry here, but my husband checked it out and said the machines looked new and the price was reasonable. The only issue with this park is that there is a row of permanent campers that has been there a while. Some of their areas could use some tidying up and some campers could use some repair work. On the other side of the campground there are several old cars, boats, etc. parked. They need to be removed to improve the overall look of the place. The park is nice and quiet, though. Overnighters and vacationers are put in the middle rows of sites and they try to leave an open space between each camper, so there is plenty of room to sit outside, etc. We would stay here again if we were in the Wasilla area. - Bobbi1948
Jun 2014 - $25.00
The park is OK for 1 night. The roads into the park are very rough and full of potholes. The sites are uneven as is the entire park. Utility connections were placed so that it is difficult to maneuver into a pull through site without guidance.There are abandoned looking vehicles everywhere. - Woson
Jul 2013 - $19.00
Huge gravel spaces, spotty Wi-Fi. - outoftown
Wasilla, Alaska (map) | (907) 745-7445
Sites: 40 | Latest Rate: $27.00 | 42 Reviews
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Jul 2015 - $27.00
Very nice office personnel, quiet and close to shopping and sightseeing. The sites are easily accessible and allow a big turn. The dog walk is all grass and is supplied with bags and a dedicated trash can. Even though the park is close to the highway, it's pretty quiet. The park is well maintained and the utilities are easily accessible. The sites are fairly level and have some grass and shade trees. There are two areas of the park, we stayed in the one with the trees away from the playground which had less grass but was closer to the dog walk. We stayed for three night and then came back a week later for another two night. - nv2hogs
Jul 2015 - $24.00
This is an excellent campground we would recommend to anyone staying in the Anchorage area. The campground is extremely well-maintained. The laundromat is the best we have seen in Alaska (we've been here for 8 weeks). The staff is very friendly and helpful. We were here because of truck problems and the staff made sure we had a place to stay even though we kept extending. I really can't say enough about this campground. The buildings, picnic tables, etc. were freshly painted, the grass was mowed and the fire pits were cleaned. Plus, Wasilla is just down the road for shopping, restaurants, etc. - Bobbi1948
Jul 2015 - $32.00
We had a level spot with picnic table and fire ring. Bothers was some traffic noise but it was not too disturbing. The bathrooms were very clean, freshly painted, roomy, and hair dryer included. The woman in the office was very friendly. Would stay here again and would recommend to friends. - Wyboo
Wasilla, Alaska (map) | (907) 746-4644
Sites: 39 | Latest Rate: $15.00 | 1 Reviews
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Aug 2012 - $15.00
This Campground is more for tents and smaller RV's but you can camp here with a 40 ft. but limited space in other words if you don't come in on a Monday or Tuesday you could have trouble. Campground Host was very friendly and helpful one of the reasons we got parked with a big rig like we did. Pit toilets and tanked in water which i will not put in my water tank. This is a high used local park and they drive like Heck through the campground and out of it as far as that goes. Even through this was a pretty park i would probably opt not to stay here next time and use the Matanuska River Park in the Mat-Su Borough located 1 mile from Palmer @milepost J17.4 Old Glenn Highway. - monaco cruiser
Wasilla, Alaska (map) | (907) 892-8200
Sites: 25 | Latest Rate: $20.00 | 3 Reviews
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Jul 2011 - $20.00
This park is 90% full with long term residents, who appear to have been there for awhile. There are maybe 3 sites that would be available to rent. Not for a big rig. We did not end up staying at the park but did meet a tenant who was very nice to us and said we would probably be happier on the other side of town. It is located out of town and the location is not the best. - mga60tw
Jun 2010 - $25.00
This is basically a nice park. Unfortunately there are some really seedy looking semi permanent trailers in the middle of the park. The owner manager works days, so it is self check in. We picked a lot on the end, one of the back ins, but there were several drive throughs available. The park was clean and quiet, somewhat shielded from the highway noise. We were a bit nervous staying here at first, but now I would definitely stay here again. It is not really a family park but a lay over place until the next spot. We stayed here 2 nights. - Jerry 2
Aug 2008 - $25.00
They also have propane on site and very accessible. This park is located at Milepost 50.2 on the Parks Highway. - CMcgirr
Wasilla, Alaska (map) | (907) 745-9690
Sites: 57 | Latest Rate: $10.00 | 2 Reviews
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Jun 2013 - $10.00
We had planned to stay at this campground while visiting the Wasilla area, but when we drove through we decided to move on. The campground was not well kept with grass and weeds in the sites. There is a campground host, but his site was extremely trashed. Our rig is not that new or nice but it would definitely have been the best in the park. There were people loitering around and dogs, including a pit bull, off leash. We have stayed at some "iffy" spots but would not have felt comfortable staying here or leaving the RV here while visiting the area. - TheJim
Jul 2009 - $10.00
This is a Borough (county) park, the campground roads are good gravel. The sites are rock, most are fairly level. The bathrooms are pit toilets with no running water. There is a city water spigot at entrance to campground. Campground is next to Lake Lucille. There are a few pull-through sites. Some sites are 60 feet deep but are back in. Quiet campground with plenty of trees. There are picnic tables and campfire rings at most of the sites. We would camp here again. Good trail system in the park. - planegm


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Local legislators also will consider ways to increase road funding, how farmland values are calculated for taxes and whether tax breaks or tax dollars given to businesses are effective at creating new jobs.
Those issues will be mixed in with other statewide issues lawmakers will discuss, including eliminating a tax businesses pay for equipment, increasing preschool education options, offering more ways to encourage Hoosiers to get job training and advanced education, and tightening regulations on how local boards manage tax dollars set aside in tax-increment financing, or TIF, districts.
The decisions made will have local impacts. Local school superintendents are monitoring discussions on how to get more children to attend preschool. Mayors in Greenwood and Franklin will watch any proposals that might change how money is collected or spent from TIF districts, which have funded millions of dollars in infrastructure projects in recent years, and whether a business tax cut will cost their cities millions in revenue.
All of those issues and more will need to be considered in a short legislative session, where lawmakers also will debate whether to put to a public vote an amendment to the state constitution banning same-sex marriage. Lawmakers expect that to be one of the first issues they consider.
Franklin Mayor Joe McGuinness said he hopes the same-sex marriage debate will be over quickly.
"Are we really going to be spending time talking this out at the state level when we have other issues that are in need of more attention?" McGuinness said.
Lawmakers began meeting at the Statehouse this week, and the session will end in mid-March. That doesn't leave much time to work on improving Indiana education, attracting more jobs or considering ways to bring in more revenue to local governments, such as a local food and beverage tax that Greenwood wants to have the option to implement.
State Rep. John Price, R-Bargersville, plans to propose a bill that would allow cities and towns to charge more to people dining out in restaurants or picking up a coffee on the go. The bill would allow cities and towns to approve up to a 1 percent food and beverage tax, which could be used to help pay for local services.
Greenwood is one of about 10 cities and towns that want to be able to add the tax this year and petitioned lawmakers. Price's bill would allow the local governments to implement the tax as long as the money is used for a defined purpose. For example, in Greenwood the money would be used for parks, police and fire departments and nothing else, he said.
The tax would give local governments that have cut spending due to reductions in property taxes an option to bring in new revenue, he said.
"We're there to help fill the toolbox for local government to have a way to use it to their advantage. We only approve the concept to allow them to have that," Price said.
Another tax increase being considered would affect all working Johnson County residents, and the money would be put toward mass transit in central Indiana and to fund more road repairs in the county. The difference: Voters would get to decide whether to implement the tax that would come out of their paychecks.
A mass transit plan for central Indiana has been overhauled this year to include several suggestions presented by Sen. Brent Waltz, R-Greenwood. The plan that stalled at the Statehouse last year would have cost about $1.2 billion to add new rapid transit bus lines, renovate or build new bus terminals and possibly create a light rail line serving northern suburbs of Indianapolis. The cost would have been funded by income taxes of about 1 percent of a person's paycheck from participating counties.
Under Waltz's revamped plan, new income taxes would still fund part of the cost but at lower rates. The overall cost of the plan dropped to about $30 million and area companies such as Eli Lilly and Co. that would benefit would have to pay a portion of the cost, too, Waltz said. Counties could approve a tax rate of as little as 0.1 percent, meaning for every $100 earned, a person would pay 10 cents. The money would be put toward regional projects to improve mass transit, but some would also be set aside so that taxes raised in Johnson County be used for local road projects, he said.
"The money that is being paid by the surrounding counties are actually going to the benefit of those surrounding counties and not going into a black hole feeding Marion County," Waltz said.
Some local legislators are working on proposals to keep property taxes low and make sure the taxes collected by governments are being spent effectively.
Price is working on a proposal to make sure farmers don't see their property taxes jump by more than 10 percent next year based on the value of their property.
Currently the value of farmland that is used to figure taxes is determined over a six-year period based on the average selling price of land, how much farmers are paying to rent acreage and how productive fields are. In recent years those numbers have spiked, since land prices have risen, farmers are producing more crops and interest rates have fallen drastically, Purdue University professor and tax expert Larry DeBoer said.
Increases in the value of land have led to significant increases in property taxes for farmers, including an expected 16.5 percent jump in taxes for 2015, he said. For example, farmland was valued at $1,170 per acre in 2005, compared with $2,630 per acre in 2010.
"The property that's being taxed is really more valuable than it used to be, and the numbers that come up reflect that," he said.
It's a problem legislators have faced in recent years, including passing a law last year to continue using old assessment rates on farmland to avoid a spike in taxes this year, DeBoer said. Price said he'll talk with other legislators to find a way to either spread those increases out over a longer period, so farmers maybe only pay a 2 or 3 percent increase per year, or find a way to tweak the formula so that a shorter time period is considered for the land value increases in the future.
"I met with a number of local large farmers in the county, and they all feel the same way. We want to pay our fair share of taxes; but when we see a profit margin of 2 percent, we can't pay a 13 or 14 percent increase," Price said.
Lawmakers also will discuss whether to eliminate a tax that farmers and businesses pay for equipment, such as manufacturing machinery or vehicles, after the idea was proposed by Gov. Mike Pence.
Local lawmakers said ending the tax could bring more businesses to Indiana and give existing companies more money to expand. But they also want to find a way to eliminate the tax without shorting counties, cities, towns, schools and libraries more than $1 billion statewide. Johnson County mayors and school superintendents are worried that eliminating the tax could severely reduce their income and force them to cut spending again.
Rep. Eric Koch, R-Bedford, wants the state to start a detailed study of all the tax incentives given to businesses, such as property tax breaks cities give to companies that expand their facilities, cash payments given to companies to help purchase land or new equipment, or training grants given by the state for firms that plan to hire hundreds of new workers.
The in-depth study would give lawmakers a better idea of how much benefit Hoosiers get when their tax dollars are given to businesses and whether certain programs should be discontinued, changed or expanded, he said.
"We may find out there is an incentive that is working really well and we need to put more resources into it. It's not just a tool for state policymakers but for local units as well," Koch said.


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human voiceA second attribute of vocal sound, harmonic structure, depends on the wave form produced by the vibrating vocal cords. Like any musical instrument, the human voice is not a pure tone (as produced by a tuning fork); rather, it is composed of a fundamental tone (or frequency of vibration) and a series of higher frequencies called upper harmonics, usually corresponding to a simple mathematical...
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tones...others, overtones. The frequencies of the overtones may be whole multiples (e.g., 2, 3, 4, etc., of the fundamental frequency, in which case they are called the second, third, fourth, etc., harmonics of the fundamental tone, itself known as the first harmonic). A combination of harmonic tones is pleasant to hear and is therefore called a musical tone.
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There are 60 achievements with a total of 1250 points.
|Welcome Back (5 points)
|Complete the Saints Revival prologue
|Seppuku (40 points)
|Defeat the Ronin
|Brother's Keeper (40 points)
|Defeat the Brotherhood
|Remind Me of the Babe (40 points)
|Defeat the Sons of Samedi
|Crime Lord (50 points)
|Complete all levels of all activities
|Velvet Rope (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Crowd Control
|Demolition Man (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Demolition Derby
|Purple Haze (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Drug Trafficking
|Trickster (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Escort
|Do Not Talk About It (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Fight Club
|Reality Star (15 points)
|Complete all levels of FUZZ
|HeliGood (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Heli Assault
|Stuntman (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Trail Blazing
|Ambulance Chaser (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Insurance Fraud
|Wrecking Crew (15 points)
|Complete all levels of Mayhem
|Splatster Chief (15 points)
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|Complete all levels of Snatch
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|Complete all levels of Tow Truck, Fire Truck, Ambulance, and Taxi diversions
|Duke of Stilwater (10 points)
|Find all stunt jumps in Stilwater
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|Find all flying stunt locations in Stilwater
|Hi Fidelity (15 points)
|Find all CDs in Stilwater
|All-City (10 points)
|Find and spray all 50 tags in Stilwater
|Where's My Car? (10 points)
|Deliver all the cars to the chop shops
|Hello 47 (10 points)
|Kill all Hitman targets
|2 Quick 2 Pissed (15 points)
|Complete all races in Stilwater
|Romero's Hero (5 points)
|Complete the Zombie Uprising video game
|Surf's Up (5 points)
|Get 3 gold stars in Vehicle Surfing
|Duelist (25 points)
|Complete all Ronin missions in co-op
|Pot Luck (25 points)
|Complete all Samedi missions in co-op
|Separated at Birth (25 points)
|Complete all Brotherhood missions in co-op
|Partners in Crime (100 points)
|Complete all campaign missions in co-op
|Confidence Men (25 points)
|Complete all levels of all activities in co-op
|True Pal (10 points)
|Defeat your partner in a co-op diversion
|Strong Armed (10 points)
|Complete the Strong Arm tutorial
|Saint's Seven (30 points)
|Win all seven Ranked Strong Arm Activities, and win on all seven Strong Arm maps
|Spread the Love (30 points)
|Host and win an Xbox LIVE Party Game
|Tested (10 points)
|Win 10 Xbox LIVE Strong Arm matches
|Hoodlum (30 points)
|Earn 7 Multiplayer Badges
|Made (30 points)
|Earn 15 Multiplayer Badges
|Kingpin (40 points)
|Earn 30 Multiplayer Badges
|Meta-Gamer (20 points)
|Play the Co-op Mission game once
|MVP (25 points)
|Win the Co-op competitive mission game 5 times
|Party Time (25 points)
|Host or play in a party match on Xbox LIVE
|Rookie Stuntman (25 points)
|Play the Stuntmen Co-op game once
|Action Hero (25 points)
|Win 20 rounds in the Stuntmen Co-op game
|Tag Team (20 points)
|Your team needs to hold all tag spots at one time in a Strong Arm match on Xbox LIVE
|Gangster Brawler (20 points)
|Won 10 Gangster Brawls or Team Gangster Brawls on Xbox LIVE
Secret Achievements
|A Brighter Future (80 points)
|Defeated the Ultor Corporation epilogue
|Vengeance (15 points)
|Exacted revenge on Julius
|Going the Distance (5 points)
|Threw someone a long, long way
|Love Thy Neighbor (5 points)
|Grabbed 50 human shields
|Aww Nuts! (5 points)
|Hit 100 lifetime nut shots
|Stilwater Welcoming Commitee (5 points)
|Mugged 50 citizens of Stilwater
|I'm Not Addicted! (5 points)
|Gambled $500,000 total lifetime
|Trash Talker (5 points)
|Taunted 50 gang members
|Soprano (10 points)
|Sung Along to the Radio
|Still Addicted to tha Row (20 points)
|Played Saints Row 2 in single player or co-op for a combined 50 hours
|Fluffer (35 points)
|Completed the Ultor Exposed mission arc
|Phone Sex (20 points)
|Called Tera as a homie
|A Better Life (35 points)
|Completed the Corporate Warfare mission arc
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"CIOs continue to invest in our application roadmap and new productivity scenarios... Lync revenue growth accelerated to over 45% as enterprises chose our unified communications platform. We believe unified communications is a huge market opportunity and we are pleased to see these results."On premises, Lync sounds like it's gaining some momentum with full-blown PBX services. But in the cloud, Microsoft does not yet offer full-blown hosted PBX services... at least not yet. But it's coming.
Early Lync hosting providers include NextUC and xRM, and more Lync hosting providers are popping up everyday. Some of those hosting providers offer white label Lync services to resellers.
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The small army hunting him has the advantage of strength in numbers and access to resources, such as special weapons, to bring him in.
In his online rant, Dorner baited authorities.
"Any threat assessments you generate will be useless," it read. "I have the strength and benefits of being unpredictable, unconventional, and unforgiving."
Without the numbers that authorities have, Dorner holds one advantage: the element of surprise.
"He can be behind every tree," Hall said. "He can try to draw them into an ambush area where he backtracks."
Authorities said they do not know how long Dorner had been planning the rampage. It's not clear if he is familiar with the area, or has provisions, clothing or weapons stockpiled in the area. Even with training, days of cold and snow can be punishing.
"Unless he is an expert in living in the California mountains in this time of year, he is going to be hurting," said former Navy SEAL Clint Sparks, who now works in tactical training and security. "Cold is a huge stress factor. ... Not everybody is survivor-man."
Jamie Usera, an attorney in Salem, Ore., who befriended Dorner when they were students and football teammates at Southern Utah University, said he introduced him to the outdoors. Originally from Alaska, Usera said, he taught Dorner about hunting and other outdoor activities.
"Of all the people I hung out with in college, he is the last guy I would have expected to be in this kind of situation," Usera, who had lost touch with Dorner is recent years, told the Los Angeles Times.
Others saw Dorner differently. Court documents obtained by The Associated Press on Friday show an ex-girlfriend of Dorner's called him "severely emotionally and mentally disturbed" after the two split in 2006.
Dorner served in the Navy, earning a rifle marksman ribbon and pistol expert medal. He was assigned to a naval undersea warfare unit and various aviation training units, according to military records. He took leave from the LAPD for a six-month deployment to Bahrain in 2006 and 2007.
Last Friday was his last day with the Navy and also the day CNN's Anderson Cooper received a package that contained a note on it that read, in part, "I never lied." A coin riddled with bullet holes that former Chief William Bratton gave out as a souvenir was also in the package.
Police said it was a sign of planning by Dorner before the killing began.
On Sunday, police say Dorner shot and killed a couple in a parking garage at their condominium in Irvine. The woman was the daughter of a retired police captain who had represented Dorner in the disciplinary proceedings that led to his firing.
Dorner wrote in his manifesto that he believed the retired captain had represented the interests of the department over his.
Hours after authorities identified Dorner as a suspect in the double murder, police believe Dorner shot and grazed an LAPD officer in Corona and then used a rifle to ambush two Riverside police officers early Thursday, killing one and seriously wounding the other.
The incident led police to believe he was armed with multiple weapons, including an assault-type rifle. That detail concerned officers whose bullet-proof vests can be penetrated by such high-powered weapons, said LAPD Deputy Chief Kirk Albanese.
As a result, all LAPD officers have been required to work in pairs to ensure "a greater likelihood of coming out on top if there is an ambush," Albanese said. "We have no officers alone right now."
In Big Bear Lake on Friday, residents were on edge about the manhunt even as ski slopes remained open.
"A lot of people are frightened by it," said Dennis Pitner. "A lot of people are at home locked in their houses and probably won't come out for a couple more days, maybe even longer."
Associated Press writers contributing to this report include Michael Blood and John Antczak in Los Angeles and Julie Watson in San Diego.
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The easiest way I have found (no coding involved!) to do this is to use the Page Links To plugin as described in this thread.
The easiest way I have found (no coding involved!) to do this is to use the Page Links To plugin as described in this thread.
From my understanding all you're doing then is redirecting the page somewhere else, which defeats the point of using the page does it not?..
Isn't the point of using a page so you can have a particular URL for that content...
So rather then having..
You'd have..
Books being the name of the page, which makes for a shorter (and maybe desired) URL.
For page links that point offsite i can understand the use for that plugin, but for linking a page to a WordPress archive, it seems accessive, a hard-coded link could do exactly the same, without any overhead caused by loading an additional plugin..
Am i missing something?
Many themes create their menu from Pages, so adding a category to the menu can be a problem. The plugin lets you use a Page, which goes into the menu, to redirect to a category archive, among other things.
Where would you put a hard-coded link for this case?
Alongside the code handling the menu? in the template file...
I honestly cannot figure out why you'd to install a plugin just for the sake of a single link (other then pure simplicity).. You could do the same with a htaccess rule for what it's worth to.. We are discussing a singular link here, not several, and imo it seems overkill for something that could be handled by one line of code, either via a htaccess rule or via a hard-coded link..
It's un-necessary plugin additions like this that add to plugin overhead, which in turn leads to dreadfully slow sites... Where possible you should always hard-code, unless you have a particular need that warrants something more versatile(or easier).. like a plugin ...
What's easy now, my not be the best decision for your site in the long run.. if you can hard-code, then do it, it'll be one less area of concern should you face any performance issues somewhere down the road, be it months, weeks or years later...
Not saying it's a bad idea, just unwarranted for this use case.. imho..
IMHO, it is just a lot easier for a novice to put a link in a page than to potentially bomb their site trying to change code in a template. If you are an experienced (even slightly) programmer, go for it, otherwise take the safest approach.
Agreed, if it's for the sake of simplicity i see no problem, we can't all be coders/programmers .. :)
You give alot of sound advice here mate, i'd not disagree with you just for the sake of disagreeing ... ;)
All of these solutions are great for me thanks.
Though I am running into one problem.
I am setting up a page with a parent and applying the one category only template to that page. It all works great accept in my menu list .current_page_item is no longer being applied to that page.
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current_page_parent still gets applied to the parent item.
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|WI-FI TRANSCEIVER HAVING DUAL-BAND VIRTUAL CONCURRENT CONNECTION MODE AND METHOD OF OPERATION THEREOF - A transceiver, a method of providing multiple-band virtual concurrent wireless communication and a wireless device incorporating the transceiver or the method. In one embodiment, the transceiver includes: (1) first transmit and receive intermediate frequency (IF) strips, (2) second transmit and receive IF strips, (3) first and second local oscillators (LOs) and (4) switches operable to multiplex clock signals from the first and second local oscillators to cause the transceiver to operate in a selectable one of: (4a) a unified, multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) mode in which the first and second transmit and receive IF strips are driven to transmit and receive in a first band and (4b) a concurrent multiple-band connection mode in which the first transmit and receive IF strips are driven in the first band and the second transmit and receive IF strips are concurrently driven in a second band.
|PROCESSING SIGNALS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS ENVIRONMENT - One aspect provides a method of processing a signal transmitted over a channel in a wireless communication system. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving at a receiver the signal transmitted over the channel, estimating at intervals at least one parameter of a time varying communication environment of the system, monitoring at least one processor-related criterion of a processor at the receiver, and selecting a signal processing function from a plurality of signal processing functions implementable by the processor. The selecting of the signal processing function is based on both the at least one parameter and the at least one processor-related criterion. Each signal processing function comprises a plurality of code blocks which process the received signal. Each code block of the plurality of code blocks comprises a sequence of instructions for execution by on a processor platform of the processor.
|METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR FRACTIONAL RATE PULSE SHAPING - A fractional rate converting filter in a wireless transceiver comprising a delay line, multiplier circuit, adder circuit, and selector. The delay line receives a digital input signal at a first sample rate and has delay blocks each providing an output and receiving samples gated at a plurality of clock cycles of an integer sub-multiple frequency of a clock. The outputs are multiplied by corresponding filter tap coefficients. Each filter tap coefficient is spaced by a first integer Y. The adder circuit receives and sums the tap outputs to provide an output signal. The selector iteratively shifts the coefficients by a second integer Z. The output of each delay block is multiplied by corresponding shifted filter tap coefficients. The delay blocks are inhibited from receiving another input sample during the plurality of clock cycles. The output signal has a second sample rate at the integer sub-multiple frequency of the clock.
|EQUALISER FOR WIRELESS RECEIVERS WITH NORMALISED COEFFICIENTS - A method, receiver and program for equalising a radio signal comprising a sequence of data samples multiplexed with a sequence of pilot samples. The method comprises; calculating equaliser coefficients by computing cross-correlations of the received signal and known pilot samples available at the receiver and auto-correlations of the received signal; and equalising the received signal using the calculated coefficients.
|CELLULAR COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM - A method, receiver and program for processing a signal received using a wireless communication channel by a receiver in a wireless cellular network. The method comprises: receiving signal samples of a signal to be processed from a serving cell; identifying a set of dominant interfering cells generating an interfering signal above a level; using the number of cells in the set to select an interference scenario; and using the selected interference scenario and at least one parameter related to the serving cell and the interfering cells to select a processing function for processing the signal.
|SIGNAL PROCESSING IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATION RECEIVERS - A method, receiver and program for equalising digital samples of a radio signal received over a wireless communications channel. The method comprises: receiving digital samples of the radio signal; calculating equaliser coefficients in the frequency domain; transforming the equaliser coefficients from the frequency domain to the time domain; and equalising the digital samples in the time domain using the transformed time domain equaliser coefficients.
|PROCESSING A RADIO FREQUENCY SIGNAL - Circuitry and a method for use in a radio frequency receiver for processing a radio frequency signal are provided. The circuitry comprises a mixer arranged to receive the radio frequency signal and down-convert the received radio frequency signal to a lower frequency. The received radio frequency signal has an interference component and the interference component in the down-converted signal is within an interference frequency range. The circuitry also comprises an LC based notch filter arranged to receive the down-converted signal from the mixer, filter the down-converted signal, and output the filtered signal for processing by a baseband processing block. The LC based notch filter has a notch centered within said interference frequency range, such that the LC based notch filter is arranged to attenuate the interference component in the down-converted signal.
|LOCAL OSCILLATOR CLOCK SIGNALS - An apparatus and method for generating complementary periodic signals for a mixer circuit is provided. The apparatus comprises first and second generation circuits each for generating a periodic signal with a transition time on each rising edge different than a transition time on each falling edge. Each of the first and second generation circuits has an output for supplying its periodic signal to a mixer such that each rising edge of a periodic signal from one of the circuits crosses each falling edge of a periodic signal from the other of the circuits at a crossing point below a turn on voltage of the mixer.
|MIXER CIRCUIT - A driver circuit for supplying a drive signal to a mixer circuit comprising a first and second circuit branch and an operational amplifier. The first circuit branch receives an input signal and a bias signal. The second circuit branch receives the input signal. The operational amplifier has a first input connected to a junction node of the first circuit branch and a second input connected to a junction node of the second circuit branch. The operational amplifier is arranged to provide an operational amplifier output signal a second component of the second circuit branch so that a voltage at the junction node of the second circuit branch is equal to a voltage at the junction node of the first circuit branch. The voltage is dependent on the input signal and providing the drive signal.
|DUTY CYCLE CORRECTION - Method and circuitry for controlling duty cycle of an input signal towards a desired value comprising a sequence of at least two inverters arranged in series and feedback circuitry. A first inverter is arranged to receive the input signal and a last inverter is arranged to output a signal having the same frequency as the input signal. The output signal is an adjusted version of the input signal. The feedback circuitry is arranged to receive the output signal and comprises a comparing and supplying means. The comparing means compares the output signal with a reference signal indicative of a desired value and generates a feedback signal based on the comparison of the output and reference signal. The supplying means supplies the feedback signal to adjust operating conditions of at least one of the inverters, such that the duty cycle of the output signal is controlled towards the desired value.
|LOW SUPPLY REGULATOR HAVING A HIGH POWER SUPPLY REJECTION RATIO - A power supply noise rejection circuit for functional circuits, such as a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The power supply noise rejection circuit includes an isolation transistor connected to a voltage supply for providing an output current and voltage substantially free of noise across the full frequency range. A current source, a diode connected reference transistor with resistance means connected between its gate and drain terminals, and a dummy circuit serially connected between the voltage supply and ground generate a bias voltage that is applied to the gate of the isolation transistor. The dummy circuit mimics the DC characteristics of the functional circuit such that the output current tracks with process and temperature variations. The isolation transistor and the reference transistor can have negative threshold voltages, and the circuit can include bleed means for drawing current from the gate of the reference transistor and isolation transistor.
|CANCELLING INTERFERENCE IN A WIRELESS CELLULAR NETWORK - A method, program and user equipment for wireless communication in a cellular communication system comprising a plurality of base stations. The method comprises: synchronizing to one of said the base stations using a synchronization channel transmitted from that base station; receiving a pilot channel from said base station; after synchronizing to said base station, receiving a signal from that base station; and using the pilot channel from said base station to cancel interference on said signal caused by the synchronization channel.
|PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURE - A processor including: a first and at least a second data processing channel with enable logic for selectively enabling the second channel; logic for generating first and second storage addresses having a variable offset therebetween based on the same one or more address operands of the same storage access instruction; and circuitry for transferring data between the first address and a register of the first data processing channel and between the second address and a corresponding register of the second channel based on a same one or more register specifier operands of the access instruction. The first data processing channel performs an operation using one or more registers of the first data processing channel, and on condition of being enabled the second channel performs the same operation using a corresponding one or more of its own registers based on the same one or more operands of the data processing instruction.
|ITERATIVE DECODING OF SIGNALS RECEIVED OVER A NOISY CHANNEL USING FORWARD AND BACKWARD RECURSIONS WITH WARM-UP INITIALIZATION - A method, apparatus and program. The method comprises: receiving a signal comprising a sequence of encoded symbols, each corresponding to one of a plurality of possible states; for each symbol in the sequence, determining a set of state metrics each representing a probability that the respective symbol corresponds to each of the plurality of states; and decoding the signal by processing runs of recursions, using runs of forward recursions and runs of reverse recursions. The decoding comprises performing a plurality of repeated iterations over the sequence, and for each iteration: dividing the sequence into a plurality of smaller windows, processing the windows using separate runs of recursions, and performing an associated warm-up run of recursions for each window. The decoding further comprises, for each repeated recursion: alternating the direction of the warm-up runs between forward and reverse with each successive iteration over the sequence, storing one of the sets of state metrics from each window, and initialising the warm-up run of each window using a corresponding stored set of state metrics from a previous iteration.
|DATA TRANSMISSION - A method of transmitting data from a first module to addressable storage devices in a second module. The method comprises: transmitting from the first module to a second module in a first transmission cycle an address identifying a storage device in the second module for a data item; at the second module, determining the status of a storage location in the device identified by the address for holding a data item and dispatching in a second transmission cycle a pre-emptive acknowledgement signal, the state of which depends on the status of that storage location; transmitting in the second transmission cycle the data item from the first module to the second module; transmitting the address in a later transmission cycle from the first module to the second module; and selectively transmitting one of the data item and a next data item depending on the state of the pre-emptive acknowledgement signal.
|ADAPTIVE TRANSMISSION FEEDBACK - A method, program and apparatus for transmitting from a transmitter to a receiver over a channel using a transmit diversity scheme. The method comprises: receiving power-related information fed back from the receiver to the transmitter; and at the transmitter, using the power-related information to generate channel state information. The method further comprises using the generated channel state information to control for subsequent transmission to the receiver from the multiple transmit antennas of the transmitter.
|METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DECODING OF SIGNALS TRANSMITTED OVER FADING CHANNELS WITH MULTIPLICATIVE NOISE - A method of generating a reliability indicator for decoding an encoded signal transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver via a wireless channel subject to fading. The method comprises: receiving symbols of the encoded signal; generating a reliability indicator for decoding at least some of the symbols selectively based on one or both of a statistical model representing additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) in the encoded signal and a statistical model representing fading of the encoded signal; and selecting the statistical model based on signal characteristics of the wireless channel.
|Manufacturing Process - The invention provides a method of manufacturing a user equipment comprising a wireless modem, a method of activating a user equipment as a wireless modem, and a corresponding server and user equipment. A processor is produced for executing wireless modem code to operate the processor as a wireless modem, the processor having a writeable, non-volatile memory for storing the wireless modem code but being produced with at least a substantive portion of said wireless modem code not installed on said memory or otherwise, thus rendering the processor inoperative as a wireless modem. The processor is assembled into a user equipment and supplied to an end-user still without the substantive portion of wireless modem code installed. In response to an indication from the end-user requesting activation of the user equipment as a wireless modem, at least said substantive portion of wireless modem code is then distributed to the end-user for installation on the memory the user equipment's processor.
|ESTIMATION OF SIGNAL AND INTERFERENCE POWER - Wireless receiver and method of operating a wireless receiver in a wireless communication network for: receiving a signal, the received signal comprising data containing at least one symbol from a symbol alphabet, the symbol alphabet consisting of complex values that define a direction in the complex plane, the received signal further comprising interference; measuring the variance of a first component of the received signal that is perpendicular to the defined direction in the complex plane; estimating the interference power of the received signal using the measured variance of the first component of the received signal; estimating a total power of the received signal; estimating the power of the at least one symbol of the received signal by subtracting the estimated interference power from the estimated total power of the received signal; and based on the estimated interference power and the estimated power of the at least one symbol of the received signal, performing at least one of the steps of: processing the received signal, and generating control information related to the transmission of a further signal from the wireless receiver.
|TRANSMITTING A SIGNAL FROM A POWER AMPLIFIER - A method for limiting peak-to-average power of a signal transmitted from a power amplifier. The method comprises: applying a pulse-shape filter to a first signal, thereby generating a second signal being a filtered version of the first signal; and outputting the second signal for transmission from a power amplifier. The method further comprises: applying each of a plurality of predictor filters to a respective instance of the first signal, each predictor filter approximating the application of the pulse-shape filter to the first signal based on a different respective set of filter coefficients, and each thereby generating a respective third signal. The method also further comprises determining an indicator of amplitude of each of the third signals, selecting the indicator corresponding to the largest of those amplitudes, generating a modifier based on the selected indicator, and using the modifier to limit the first signal prior to applying the pulse-shape filter.
|TRANSPORT BLOCK SIZE - Disclosed herein is a method, device, network and computer program product for transmitting data in transport blocks from the device on an uplink channel of the network. Information indicative of a current condition on the uplink channel is determined. Based on the determined information, a transport block size for use in transmitting data on the uplink channel is adapted and data is transmitted from the device on the uplink channel in transport blocks having the adapted transport block size.
|ACTIVE POWER MANAGEMENT - A method of controlling the clock frequency of a processor executing software in a plurality of active periods, the method comprising, for each period: supplying to a power management application at least one parameter defining an execution profile for the period having high frequency and low frequency operating intervals; the power management application determining, based on said profile, granted clock frequencies for the high and low frequency operating intervals; the processor supplying to the power management application at the commencement of a period an operating cycle requirement for the period; the power management application determining, for each period, based on the operating cycle requirement, the length of the low frequency interval; and controlling the clock frequency in each interval based on the granted clock frequencies determined by the power management application.
|BOOTING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit is disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the integrated circuit includes: a processor; a plurality of external pins operatively coupled to the processor; and a permanently written memory operatively coupled to the processor, the memory having a plurality of regions each storing one or more respective boot properties for booting the processor. The processor is programmed to select one of the regions in dependence on an indication received via one or more of the external pins, to retrieve the one or more respective boot properties from the selected region, and to boot using the one or more retrieved boot properties.
|MEMORY CELLS - A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit (IC), comprising: defining a plurality of continuous active areas; forming conducting lines extending over the active areas; and using the conducting lines as a mask, introducing dopant into the active areas. Connections are provided between doped regions and conducting lines to form first and second circuit portions, at least one active area being continuous between those portions. In that active area, connections are provided between doped regions and conducting lines to form a pair of diode-connected transistors in reverse bias to one another between the first and second circuit portions, connected so as to leave a shared, unconnected doped region between the pair. The present invention also relates to a corresponding IC.
|MIMO RECEIVER HAVING IMPROVED SIR ESTIMATION AND CORRESPONDING METHOD - A method and corresponding receiver product, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of data streams over a wireless multiple-input-multiple-output data channel, whereby each data stream is received at all of a plurality of receive antennas from all of a plurality of transmit antennas with a respective weighting having been applied to each stream as transmitted from each different transmit antenna; receiving a common pilot signal over a common pilot channel; receiving an indication of the weightings; extracting the individual data streams from the plurality received at the receive antennas; and using the weightings and the common pilot signal together with information regarding the extracted data streams to calculate, for each of the streams, an estimate of signal power relative to interference from the one or more others of said data streams.
|MEMORY ERRORS - The present invention provides a method of protecting against errors in a boot memory, the method comprising initiating booting of a processor by executing primary boot code from a primary boot memory, and based on the execution of the primary boot code: accessing a data structure comprising a plurality of redundant portions of boot information stored on a secondary boot memory; performing an error check on a plurality of the portions to determine whether those portions contain errors and, based on the error checks, to identify a valid portion; and booting the processor using the valid portion of boot information.
|PASSIVE TRANSMITTER ARCHITECTURE WITH SWITCHABLE OUTPUTS FOR WIRELESS APPLICATIONS - A transmitter architecture having a single signal path or hardware to cover WCDMA/EDGE/GSM applications, and requires no SAW at the transmitter outputs. The transmitter architecture allows for a transmit convergence feature. A passive mixer with unique driver and furthermore using native devices available from the CMOS process for the mixer cores enables low voltage and low power design, low output noise and high linearity. A digital variable gain amplifier has the capability to cover wide output dynamic range operated from low supply voltage and interfaced digitally with the baseband circuit without DAC. A single transformer is used to combine the outputs from the WCDMA/EDGE and GSM drivers and subsequently convert the differential signal paths into a single-ended signal. RF switches are used to divert the output from the transformer to different bands and applications.
|ESTIMATING SIGNAL CHARACTERISTICS - A method, program and apparatus for transmitting an RF signal over a wireless communication network. The method comprises: determining a respective weighting factor for each of a plurality of digital signals each corresponding to a respective channel, the weighting factors being for weighting the digital signals for combination to produce a composite signal intended for transmission as an RF signal via a power amplifier. The method further comprises: executing instructions on a processor to dynamically calculate, in the processor, a metric related to the non-linearity of the power amplifier's transfer characteristics for the composite signal using the determined weighting factors; supplying to the power amplifier a signal for transmission as an RF signal; amplifying the signal for transmission at the power amplifier to transmit an RF signal over the wireless communication network via at least one antenna; and controlling the transmission based on the metric related to the amplifier non-linearity.
|A METHOD AND CIRCUIT FOR FRACTIONAL RATE PULSE SHAPING - A method and system for fractionally converting sample rates. Fractional rate conversion for a transmit path of a transceiver is achieved by upsampling an input signal having a first sample rate by a first integer factor, removing aliasing resulting from the upconversion process, and then downsampling the intermediate signal by a second integer factor to provide a final signal having a second sample rate. The first factor and the second factor are selected to obtain a desired output sample rate that is a fraction of the sample rate of the input signal.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALIBRATING A FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZER - A digital frequency synthesizer with an automatic calibration system. The digital frequency synthesizer is calibrated by initiating a coarse tuning operation to rapidly reach a preliminary frequency that is proximate to the desired final frequency. A calibration procedure is then executed for adjusting gain in the frequency synthesizer based on the preliminary frequency. This test involves applying one or more test signals to the frequency synthesizer and measuring a signal generated in the frequency synthesizer. This measured signal corresponds to a gain response of the circuit at the preliminary frequency. When the expected gain is known, any difference relative to the gain of the measured signal is used to adjust the gain in a circuit of the frequency synthesizer such that the actual gain substantially matches the expected gain.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DESIGNING INTEGRATED CIRCUITS THAT EMPLOY ADAPTIVE VOLTAGE SCALING OPTIMIZATION - A design process optimization system and method for designing a circuit, which may be an integrated circuit (IC) employing adaptive voltage and scaling optimization (AVSO). In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a process-voltage-temperature (PVT) libraries database configured to contain PVT libraries of PVT characterizations of devices of cells from which the circuit is to be constructed and (2) a PVT library selector coupled to the PVT libraries database and configured to receive a selection indicating a supplemental objective and respond to the selection by selecting one of the PVT libraries from the PVT libraries database, a timing signoff tool later employing at most two corners from the one of the PVT libraries to perform a timing signoff with respect to the circuit.
|REPORTING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method of transmitting channel quality data for channels in a wireless communication system, and to a corresponding receiver and transmitter. The method comprises determining a plurality of channel quality indicators for a corresponding plurality of frequency intervals, and transmitting information about channel quality indicators in the form of differentially encoded slope data.
|APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROL PROCESSING IN DUAL PATH PROCESSOR - A computer processor comprises a decode unit and a processing channel. The decode unit decodes a stream of instruction packets from a memory, each instruction packet comprising a plurality of instructions. The processing channel comprises a plurality of functional units and operable to perform control processing operations. The decode unit is operable to receive and decode instruction packets of a bit length of 64 bits and to detect if the instruction packet defines three control instructions each having a length of 21 bits. The decode unit detects that the instruction packet comprises the three control instructions. The control instructions are supplied to the processing channel for execution in the order in which they appear in the instruction packet. The detection uses an identification bit in the instruction packet.
|METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING A SIGNAL - Method and receiver for processing a signal in a wireless communication system in which the signal comprises a sequence of chips. The signal is receive data at least one rake finger and sampled. There is a time spacing t
|EQUALISATION PROCESSING - A method and apparatus for processing a signal in a wireless communication system. The method comprises: receiving a signal at a receiver over a wireless channel; sampling the signal to produce a plurality of signal samples; and supplying the samples to an equaliser implemented in software running on a processor of the receiver, the equaliser being configured to process the samples using at least one equaliser time period having a nominal length. The method further comprises dynamically determining one or more characteristics of the channel; in dependence on the determined channel characteristics, dynamically selecting between a first operational state of the equaliser in which the nominal length is used and a second operational state of the equaliser in which an alternative length is used in place of the nominal length; and processing the samples in the equaliser using the determined equaliser time period length.
|SYSTEM AND METHOD OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION - A method, program and system for transmitting from a transmitter to a receiver over a wireless multipie-input-multiple-output channel. In one aspect, the method may comprise encoding precoding information fed back from the receiver to the transmitter according to a differential encoding scheme, and resetting the differential encoding scheme upon detecting a condition. In another aspect, the method may comprises encoding precoding matrices fed back from the receiver to the transmitter relative to a most-probable subset of precoding matrices. In another aspect, the method may comprise transmitting an indication of and/or the size of a preferred subset of precoding matrices for use in the encoding.
|SYNCHRONOUS CDMA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - In one aspect, there is provided a method of processing a signal received using a wireless communication channel by a receiver in a wireless cellular network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving signal samples of a signal to be processed from a serving cell, identifying a second of dominant interfering cells generating an interfering signal, using a number of cells in the set to select an interference scenario, and using the selected interference scenario and at least one parameter related to the serving cell and the interfering cells to select a processing function for processing the signal.
|PROCESSING DIGITAL SAMPLES IN A WIRELESS RECEIVER - A system and method for processing digital samples from a signal received via a wireless transmission channel in a wireless communications system. The method comprises: comparing a target signal quality value with an estimated received signal quality value; detecting if the estimated received signal quality value exceeds the target signal quality value for a period; and selecting one of a plurality of processing routines of differing sensitivities for processing the digital samples.
|POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of power control in a wireless communication system wherein blocks are transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver on multiple wireless transport channels. The method comprises comparing a target signal quality value with a received signal quality value and providing the results of the comparing step to the transmitter to adjust transmit power, and a mechanism for controlling the target signal quality for transport channels that have been inactive for a predefined period. A corresponding receiver is also provided.
|FREQUENCY OFFSET ESTIMATION IN A CDMA SYSTEM - The present invention provides a method of estimating a frequency offset. The method comprises receiving a wireless signal timed according to a first frequency; generating a local signal timed according to a second frequency; and performing a plurality of synchronization searches, each search comprising obtaining a set of correlation results indicative of a correlation between the wireless signal and the local signal at different timing offsets of the wireless signal relative to the local signal. The method the no comprises finding a series of results, with a result from each of a plurality of the synchronization searches, for which the difference in; timing offset between results from adjacent searches in the series is within a maximum specified value. A frequency off set between the first and second frequencies can be determined from the series.
|PHYSICAL CHANNEL ESTABLISHMENT - There is disclosed a method of controlling physical channel establishment in a wireless communication system, which method comprises: a.) determining if decoding of a system frame number is required as part of an initialization of a physical channel establishment procedure; b.) if decoding of the system frame number is not required, initializing a decoding of a system frame number for the channel to be established; and c.) if the decoding of the system frame number fails, terminating the channel establishment procedure.
|CARRIER DETECTION - There is disclosed a method of determining one or more candidate frequencies for a carrier signal in a received signal, which method comprises: generating a narrowband spectrum of the received signal; detecting one or more peaks in the narrowband spectrum; generating a candidate frequency list, each frequency at which a peak occurs being included in the candidate frequency list. The method further comprises: removing the detected one or more peaks from the narrowband spectrum to generate a modified narrowband spectrum; detecting one or more further peaks in the modified narrowband spectrum; and modifying the candidate frequency list in dependence on the one or more further peaks.
|POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of power control in a wireless communications system wherein blocks are transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver via a wireless transmission channel. The method comprises comparing a target signal quality value with a received signal quality value and providing the results of the comparing step to the transmitter to adjust transmit power based on the comparing step. The target signal quality value is set by the following steps: determining an initial target value; determining if received blocks have been successfully decoded; identifying the received blocks as pass or fail blocks; when pass blocks are received, comparing the target signal quality value with the received signal quality value and decreasing the target value only if the target value is greater than the received signal quality value less a margin.
|POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - A method of power control in a wireless communication system, wherein blocks are transmitted from a transmitter to a receiver via a wireless transport channel. The method comprises comparing a target signal quality value with a received signal quality value and providing the results of the comparing step to the transmitter to adjust transmit power based on the comparing step. The target signal quality value is set by the following steps: determining an initial target value; detecting if a data block has been received; detecting if received blocks have been successfully decoded; and decreasing the target value when pass blocks are received and increasing the target value when failed blocks are received subject to monitoring a period of inactivity on the transport channel in which no blocks are received.
|POWER CONTROL IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - An inter-radio-access-technology device comprising: an interface for communicating over a wireless cellular network, and a processor arranged to execute code for performing operations handling communications via the interface according to a plurality of different radio access technologies. The processor is operable to execute code using any selected one of a plurality of different instruction sets, each set being configured for performing operations according to a respective one of the radio access technologies. The device is operable to dynamically switch between the radio access technologies, by selecting corresponding code for execution by the processor and selecting the corresponding instruction set for use in execution of the selected code.
|PROCESSING DIGITAL SAMPLES IN A WIRELESS RECEIVER - A method of processing digital samples of a signal received at a receiver of a wireless communication system includes monitoring channel conditions and generating a channel indicator including at least one channel parameter by performing at least one of: estimating a channel mobility parameter and comparing it with a threshold; estimating a channel parameter of the energy of the channel outside a predefined temporal window and comparing it with a threshold; estimating a channel temporal duration parameter and establishing if it meets predetermined criteria; estimating a channel-zero location parameter and establishing if it meets predetermined criteria; estimating a received-signal signal-to-disturbance power ratio and comparing it to a threshold; estimating an estimated-channel-response signal-to-disturbance power ratio; estimating the degree of non-stationarity of the disturbance at the receiver input; and selecting one of a plurality of processing routines for processing the digital samples based on said channel indicator. Related receivers are also described.
|GENERATING CHANNEL ESTIMATES IN A RADIO RECEIVER - A method and system for generating channel estimates for processing signals received through first and second transmission channels in a wireless communications network, each channel corresponding to a separate transmit antenna, and each signal comprising a plurality of samples derived from symbols transmitted in the signal by: generating first variable z1 (k) and second variable z2 (k); and providing a set of filter coefficients (I) and generating first and second channel estimates using first and second variables and a set of filter coefficients.
|ESTIMATING SIGNAL TO INTERFERENCE RATIO IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVER - A method and corresponding system for generating an estimate of at least one of a signal power, a noise power and a signal to interference ratio for signal samples received via first and second wireless channels, the signal samples corresponding to pilot symbols transmitted in respective different structures via the first and second wireless channels. The method comprises: calculating first and second variables, each variable being a sequence of values computed from the received signal samples and the pilot symbols for each respective first and second wireless channel; generating first and second channel estimates from the first and second variables; combining the first and second channel estimates to generate a combined channel estimate; and generating at least one of the signal power, noise power and SIR using the combined channel estimate.
|SMART CARD MODULE SUPPORTING AUTHENTICATION AND SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIO FUNCTION FOR A WIRELESS DEVICE - The disclosure provides a module for use in a wireless electronic device and being removable therefrom. In one embodiment, the module includes an antenna connector for connecting the antenna of the wireless terminal to the module, and transferring radio frequency signals over a wireless interface. The module also includes a first storage means storing user authentication information for use in authenticating a user of the wireless terminal to a wireless cellular network, and a second storage means storing communications code for processing information to be transferred over the wireless interface. The module further includes a processor arranged to execute the communications code in order to process information for communicating between the wireless terminal and the cellular network via the antenna connector.
|REPORTING CHANNEL QUALITY INFORMATION - A method and corresponding receiver for transmitting channel quality data for a channel in a wireless communication system are provided. The method comprises determining channel quality metrics for frequency intervals within the channel, selecting groups of frequency intervals based on the determined metrics, and transmitting one or more channel quality indicators for the groups. The invention also provides a method of transmitting over a channel based on such channel quality indicators feedback from a receiver, and a corresponding transmitter.
|PROCESSING TRANSMISSIONS IN A WIRELESS COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - Disclosed herein are methods of processing transmissions in a wireless communication system to detect whether a transmission unit contains transmitted data, systems for processing transmissions in a digital communications system to detect the same, receivers for processing transmissions in a wireless communications system and computer readable media implementing a method for processing the same. In one embodiment, a method of processing transmissions in a wireless communication system to detect whether a transmission unit contains transmitted data includes: generating an averaged function of bit reliability indicators from a plurality of received samples and applying a test to compare an average of ln cos h(·) (natural logarithm of the hyperbolic cosine) values for the reliability indicators, with a factor proportional to an average signal-to-disturbance ratio of the plurality of samples to determine if the transmission unit contains transmitted data.
|Resolving Mestastability - A logic circuit latch including an input stage for receiving a logical input signal and a pair of differential amplifiers, each having an input operatively coupled to the input stage, and at least one of them having an output arranged to supply the logical output of the latch. Each of the differential amplifiers includes a transistor connected as a load, and an output of each of the differential amplifiers is coupled to bias the load transistor of the other differential amplifier. If the latch switches from the transparent state to the closed state while the logical input signal is transitioning between logical levels, the differential amplifiers drive up the logical output of the latch if the logical input signal transitions from a first to a second logical level, and drive down the logical output of the latch if the input signal transitions from the second to the first logical level.
|TRANSMITTING SIGNALS - A method, program and apparatus for transmitting a signal in a time slot of a channel comprising a plurality of time slots. Using a transmitter having a processor and a power amplifier, the method comprises: retrieving a reference ramp pattern from a memory; determining an output power level for the slot from a plurality of possible output power levels, each requiring a respective corresponding ramp pattern; executing software on the processor to apply a scaling function to the reference ramp pattern in dependence on the determined output power level, thus generating a scaled ramp pattern corresponding to the pattern required for that determined level; supplying the scaled ramp pattern to a control input of the power amplifier, to control the gain of the power amplifier during the time slot; and using the power amplifier, controlled according to the scaled ramp pattern, to transmit the signal in the time slot.
|DMA Engine - Disclosed herein is a method of accessing a slave device from a circuit including a central processing unit, a data transfer engine, and an interface to the slave device. In one embodiment, the method includes: executing code on the central processing unit to set up the data transfer engine to access the slave device; and based on the set-up, operating the data transfer engine to supply a read request word to a transmit buffer of the interface for transmission to the slave device, and, after return of a corresponding response word to a first-in-first-out receive buffer of the interface, to disable the first-in-first-out receive buffer from receiving any further data such that the last word therein is assured to be the response word. The method further includes using an underflow mechanism of the first-in-first-out receive buffer to determine the last word therein and hence determine the response word.
|BOOT ALGORITHM - A method, chip and computer program product for booting from a secondary boot source. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) retrieving primary boot code from an on-chip primary boot source on the same chip as a processor, the primary boot code comprising at least a boot discovery algorithm for determining the location of an external secondary boot source external to said chip, (2) executing the primary boot code on the processor, including the boot discovery algorithm, thus operating the processor to check each of a plurality of locations to determine the location of the external secondary boot source, (3) retrieving the secondary boot code from the determined location and (4) continuing the booting of the processor by executing the secondary boot code on the processor.
|INSTRUCTION CACHE - Disclosed herein is a method of optimising an executable program to improve instruction cache hit rate when executed on a processor. A method of predicting instruction cache behaviour of an executable program is also disclosed. According to further aspects of the present invention, there is provided a software development tool product comprising code which when executed on a computer will perform the method of optimising an executable program. A linker product and a computer program are also disclosed.
|MEMORY INTERFACE - A double data rate memory interface circuit for transferring data between an interfacing device and double data rate memory device. The interface circuit comprises a data input for receiving a data signal from a first of those devices, and a strobe input for receiving a strobe signal from that first device. The interface circuit also comprises delay circuitry for supplying the data and strobe signals to the other device with a timing offset introduced therebetween. The delay circuitry comprises a software programmable storage medium and a digitally controllable delay element coupled to the storage medium, the delay element being arranged to control the timing offset in dependence on a delay setting programmed into that storage medium.
|BOOTING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit comprising: a processor; a plurality of external pins operatively coupled to the processor; and a permanently written memory operatively coupled to the processor, the memory having a plurality of regions each storing one or more respective boot properties for booting the processor. The processor is programmed to select one of the regions in dependence on an indication received via one or more of the external pins, to retrieve the one or more respective boot properties from the selected region, and to boot using the one or more retrieved boot properties.
|BOOTING AN INTEGRATED CIRCUIT - An integrated circuit comprising: a processor; a plurality of external pins operatively coupled to the processor; and a permanently written memory operatively coupled to the processor, the memory having a plurality of regions each storing one or more respective boot properties for booting the processor. The processor is programmed to select one of the regions in dependence on an indication received via one or more of the external pins, to retrieve the one or more respective boot properties from the selected region, and to boot using the one or more retrieved boot properties.
|CLOCK CIRCUITRY - A circuit comprising: clock circuitry for supplying a first faster clock signal to a first circuit portion and a second slower clock signal to a second circuit portion, and varying the relative frequency of the first and second clock signals. Synchronisation logic generates pulses which indicate when to transfer data between the first and second circuit portions. The clock circuitry generates a first control signal at a predetermined time in each cycle of the first clock signal prior to a predetermined edge, and a second control signal at a predetermined time in each cycle of the second clock signal prior to a predetermined edge. A change in the relative frequency is conditional on a coincidence of the first and second control signals. The synchronisation generates the pulses such that there is at least one cycle of the first clock signal between those pulses, and such that there is only one of those pulses per cycle of the second clock signal.
|Processing data in a digital communications system - A method of processing a signal in a wireless digital communications system, wherein a source of disturbance affects differently at least first and second portions of a received signal carrying user data and/or control data, the method comprising: identifying the second portion of the received signal, most affected by the source of disturbance; generating a first estimate of the disturbance (P
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