Patent ID: 8891668

Claim:
A wireless communication element, comprising: a transmit path configured to convert a digital signal output by digital circuitry into a wireless communication signal, the transmit path comprising a phase compensator configured to, based on a calculated phase error, convert the digital signal into a compensated digital signal, such that the transmit path may convert the compensated digital signal into the wireless communication signal; and a phase error estimation path communicatively coupled to the transmit path and configured to calculate the calculated phase error based on a difference between an estimated instantaneous reference phase of the digital signal output by the digital circuitry and an estimated transmit phase of the wireless communication signal; a summer configured to calculate a single-sample phase error equal to a difference between the estimated instantaneous reference phase and the estimated transmit phase; a phase error averager configured to calculate an averaged phase error based on a given number of samples of the single-sample phase error; and a phase compensation table configured to: store the averaged phase error average as an entry in the table corresponding to a present output power of the transmit path; and communicate a signal indicative of the value of the entry in the table corresponding to the present output power; wherein the transmit path is configured to select the value of the entry in the table corresponding to the present output power as the calculated phase error.