US Patent:
20080198909, Aug 21, 2008
Inventors:
Michail Konstantinos Tsatsanis - Huntington Beach CA, US
Willen Lao - Foothill Ranch CA, US
Wei Mo - Mission Viejo CA, US
International Classification:
H04B 1/38
H04B 3/00
H04B 1/10
US Classification:
375219, 375350, 375257, 375260
Abstract:
A multi-channel communication transceiver configured to communicate over multiple channels, such as multiple twisted pair conductors, and implement MIMO processing is disclosed. The MIMO processing occurs in a separate MIMO co-processor, which may be a DSP type processor executing machine readable code or a dedicated MIMO filter. The MIMO co-processor may be located on a separate integrated circuit and interface with the transceiver via one or more data paths and one or more control data paths. Control data is exchanged to facilitate processing of the data in the MIMO filter. A slicer output or an error term, may be forwarded to the MIMO co-processor or generated within the co-processor.