摘要:
A digital fractional phase detector (200) is provided to realize a frequency synthesizer architecture (100) that naturally combines transmitter modulation capability with a wideband all-digital PLL modulation scheme to maximize a digitally-intensive implementation by operating in a synchronous phase domain. Synchronous logic is provided across a digitally controlled VCO (104) and is synchronous to the VCO output clock by implementing a timing adjustment in association with a reference calculation to allow a frequency control word to contain both channel information and transmit modulation information. The digital fractional phase detector (200) is capable of accommodating a quantization scheme to measure fractional delay differences between the significant edge of the VCO output clock (110) and a reference clock by using a time-to-digital converter (201) to express the time difference as a digital word for use by the frequency synthesizer.
摘要:
A sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter offers advantages such as noise shaping and high frequency operation. However, a sampling circuit needed to provide a highly oversampled discrete-time sample stream with low noise characteristics is difficult to design and implement. The present invention provides a sigma-delta mixer 300 with such a sampling circuit 310. The present invention discloses a sampling circuit using switched capacitors 307, 308, and 309 with low noise characteristics and at the same time is capable of providing a highly oversampled discrete-time sample stream.
摘要:
There is provided a digital fractional phase detector (200) comprising a first input to receive an oscillator clock signal (CKV) and a second input to receive a frequency reference clock signal (FREF). A time-to-digital converter TDC (201) is coupled to said first input and said second input, said TDC producing a signal indicative of timing difference between said oscillator clock signal and said frequency clock signal. A normalizer (NORM) is coupled to said TDC (201), said normalizer producing an output, wherein said output is normalized to a period of said oscillator clock signal. Also provided is a method of generating a fractional phase error signal whereby a timing difference between an oscillator clock signal and a frequency reference clock signal is obtained, and then normalizing said timing difference to a period of said oscillator clock signal.
摘要:
A multi-tap, digital-pulse-driven mixer advantageously avoids local oscillator (11) leakage by shifting the local oscillator frequency (F LO ) out of the received frequency band. Low noise figures are advantageously realized by the use of digital pulses (51, 52) as mixer drive signals (16).
摘要:
The invention (100) provides an offset balancer (130) for use with a differential mixer employing a wireless reception and an offset quantifier (131) configured to indicate an existing DC offset of the mixer corresponding to an existing second-order intercept point applicable to the wireless reception. In one embodiment, the offset balancer includes an offset adjuster (132) coupled to the offset quantifier and configured to provide an offset adjustment to the existing DC offset based on increasing the existing second-order intercept point.
摘要:
A transmit filter (100) receives a stream of data symbols (DT_TX) at a baseband symbol clock rate. An available clock is used to generate sample points for producing a generating an oversampled signal. The available clock is independent from the baseband symbol clock, and does not need to be an integer multiple of the clock. Upon identifying a start sequence in the data stream, a phase tracking circuit (106) is used to determine a current position relative to the baseband symbol clock. A state circuit (104) stores the last three, or more, data symbols. Based on the last three data symbols (which determines the shape of the curve for the current data symbol) and the current position (which determines the current position on the curve), a filter circuit (108) generates a sample point.
摘要:
A multi-tap, digital-pulse-driven mixer advantageously avoids local oscillator (11) leakage by shifting the local oscillator frequency (F LO ) out of the received frequency band. Low noise figures are advantageously realized by the use of digital pulses (51, 52) as mixer drive signals (16).