摘要:
A transmitter in which a complex low IF digitised signal is applied in quadrature to a complex phase comparator (32) together with a digitised frequency down-converted version of an analogue signal produced by a transmitter VCO (46). The low IF digitised signal serves as a reference against which the digitised frequency down - converted version of the transmitter VCO (46) is compared. The output of the complex phase comparator (32) is converted to an analogue signal which is applied as a control signal to the transmitter VCO. An analogue embodiment of the transmitter which uses zero - IF signals is also disclosed.
摘要:
A carrier leakage suppression circuit (306) adaptively suppresses carrier leakage in a signal processing device (304) which modulates a carrier signal (346) with an in-phase baseband signal (342) and a quadrature baseband signal (344) to generate a radio frequency (RF) output signal (350). The carrier leakage suppression circuit operates by imparting (by 308) a first signature (354) to the in-phase baseband signal and a second signature to the quadrature baseband (by 310) signal prior to modulation (in 312, 316) of the carrier signal. In-phase and quadrature carrier leakage components in the RF output signal are isolated and measured (in 320,322,324,326) by respectively correlating (in 328,330) the RF output signal with the first and second signatures. An in-phase offset (368) and a quadrature offset (366) are generated as a function of the measurement of the in-phase and quadrature carrier leakage components. The in-phase baseband signal is combined (in 308) with the in-phase offset and the quadrature baseband signal is combined (in 310) with the quadrature offset to thereby suppress carrier leakage due to the in-phase baseband signal and the quadrature baseband signal.
摘要:
A Cartesian amplifier in which an input signal is pre-processed and split into two quadrature components. Both quadrature components are passed, in parallel, through an error amplifier (4), after which they are re-combined and up-converted to RF. The output of the amplifier is used to provide a feedback signal. This feedback is downconverted from RF to baseband and resolved into two quadrature components which are fed to the respective inputs of the error amplifier (4). Periodically the pre-processor (3) is switched into a calibration mode in which test signals are applied to the amplifier instead of the input signal. At these times the signal strength of the output of the power amplifier is measured and used to provide pre-distortion factors in the signal preprocessor (3) to improve amplifier linearity.
摘要:
Method and system, for calibrating a vector modulator that does not require a network analyzer, are disclosed which are incorporated in a vector modulation system comprising a standard vector modulator circuit including means for shifting phase to adjust the relative phases of the I and Q components of the modulated RF carrier. Means for attenuating are included in the I and Q modulation system to adjust the relative amplitude of the modulation signals. The disclosure describes a technique wherein the microwave transmitter's I and Q phase difference is measured by measuring the power levels of selected frequencies of the RF output signal. The power levels are compared and a correction value is stored in a read-only memory to compensate for the error. More particularly, the error compensation is achieved by first determining amplitude error or unbalance by I and Q signal power measurement and an amplitude compensation signal is stored, then a power measurement is carried out for phase compensation and a phase compensation signal is stored.
摘要:
In a modulation system responsive to a first sampled signal (31) of a first sampling rate for supplying a modulated analog signal to an amplifier having nonlinearities to make the amplifier produce an amplified output signal, a selector (72) selects the first sampled signal and a second sampled signal of a second sampling rate as a selected signal when supplied with first and second control signals, respectively. The second sampling rate is equal to 1/N (N: 2, 3, ...) of the first sampling rate. A processing arrangement (36) processes the selected signal with reference to a difference between the selected signal and an additional digital signal (35) to compensate for the nonlinearities to produce a processed signal. The processed signal is modulated into the modulated analog signal. The amplified output signal is demodulated and converted into the additional digital signal by a converter (40). A comparator (71) compares an absolute value of the difference with a threshold value and produces the first control signal when the absolute value is less than the threshold value. Otherwise, the second control signal is produced. A controller (78) may control a phase of a sampling signal supplied to the converter so that a quotient of the difference by a differential of the selected signal becomes equal to zero.
摘要:
Various embodiments provide for systems and methods for signal conversion of one modulated signal to another modulated signal using demodulation and then re-modulation. According to some embodiments, a signal receiving system may comprise an I/Q demodulator that demodulates a first modulated signal to an in-phase ("I") signal and a quadrature ("Q") signal, an I/Q signal adjustor that adaptively adjusts the Q signal to increase the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a transitory signal that is based on a second modulated signal, and an I/Q modulator that modulates the I signal and the adjusted Q signal to the second modulated signal. To increase the SNR, the Q signal may be adjusted based on a calculated error determined for the transitory signal during demodulation by a demodulator downstream from the I/Q modulator.