Abstract:
A signal modulating device includes: an integrating circuit arranged to generate an integrated signal according to a scaled analog signal and a first feedback signal; a resonating circuit arranged to generate a resonating signal according to the integrated signal; a first signal converting circuit arranged to convert the resonating signal into a digital output signal; a second signal converting circuit arranged to convert the digital output signal into the first feedback signal; and a first impedance circuit having a first terminal receiving an analog signal and a second terminal coupled to the resonating circuit for altering the location of zeros in the forward-path transfer function and consequently shaping the STF of the signal modulating device; and a second impedance circuit having a first terminal receiving the analog signal and a second terminal coupled to the integrating circuit for generating the scaled analog signal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a delta sigma modulator comprising an oscillatable system which is provided with a characteristic frequency (fR), an electronics unit and a regulation loop which acts the oscillatable system upon the electronics unit and vice versa. Said invention is characterised in that the regulation loop is embodied in such a way that an amplification in said regulation loop displays an amplification superelevation in a frequency range around the characteristic frequency (fR) of the oscillable system.
Abstract:
A transmitter (10) comprises a phase modulator (12) and a phase locked loop (PLL)(14) having a relatively high powered voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)(16). The PLL (14) includes a phase sensitive detector (30) for comparing a phase comparison frequency derived from the VCO output with a phase modulated IF carrier derived from the phase modulator. The phase modulator (12) comprises a reference frequency source (42), means (44) for deriving four quadrature phase components of the reference frequency produced by said source and phase selection means (46) controlled by complex modulation means (50, 52) for deriving the phase modulated IF carrier by random interpolation between the four quadrature components.
Abstract:
An apparatus, having as an input an analog signal, is provided. The apparatus comprises a first circuit comprising an impedance transferring circuit configured to band pass filter the input signal, obtaining a filtered signal; the impedance transferring circuit comprising: a transconductance amplifier (1102), and a switching arrangement (1106, 1108) and an impedance circuit (404) connected in series, the switching arrangement being configured to switch the impedance of the impedance circuit of the impedance transferring circuit from base band to the frequency of the input signal. The apparatus further comprises a second circuit (1112) configured to perform down mixing to the filtered signal obtaining a base band signal and a feedback loop connecting the base band signal to the switching arrangement (1114, 1116) and the impedance circuit, the signal of the feedback loop configured to control the properties of the first circuit.
Abstract:
A bandpass sigma-delta modulator using acoustic resonators or micro-mechanical resonators. In order to improve resolution at high frequencies, acoustic resonators. In order to improve resolution at high frequencies, acoustic resonators or micro-mechanical resonators are utilized in a sigma-delta modulator instead of electronic resonators. The quantized output is fed back using a pair of D/A converters to an input summation device. In fourth order devices, the feed back is to two summation devices in series. Such a sigma-delta modulator is usable in a software defined radio cellular telephone system and in other applications where high-frequency and high-resolution A/D conversion is required. A cancellation circuit may remove the anti-resonance signal from a resonator. An anti-resonance cancellation circuit removes the anti-resonance from the output of the resonators by providing a signal which is subtracted from the output of the resonator. The cancellation circuit includes a capacitor which is matched to the static capacitance of the resonator. The loads of the resonator and cancellation network are also matched.
Abstract:
A sigma-delta (ΣΔ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) (700) accepts band-limited analog signals (51), and subtracts an analog replica of an output pulse- or amplitude- density modulated (ADM) signal therefrom to produce an error signal. The error signal is processed by an analog filter or resonator (758) with a nondelayed forward path (763) and a tapped nonaccumulating delay line (775), and summed feedback (762) and feedforward (764) weights coupled to the taps, to thereby produce a resonated signal (208). An ADC (210) processes the resonated signal, and produces the ADM signal. The ADC undesirably produces quantization noise. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (218) noiselessly converts the PDM signal into the analog replica (206), to aid in forming the error signal. In a particular embodiment of the invention, the resonator (758) includes a recursive analog transversal filter with delays and linear weighting elements for linearity and high operating speed. The ADC (700) may be in a high-speed system such as a radar.
Abstract:
L'invention concerne un convertisseur sigma-delta comportant un modulateur sigma-delta comportant au moins un filtre analogique adapté, à chaque cycle d'une phase de conversion, à recevoir un signal analogique interne issu du signal analogique d'entrée et à fournir une valeur analogique de sortie, dans lequel : la contribution du signal analogique interne à la valeur de sortie du filtre est plus faible à un cycle (k) donné de la phase de conversion qu'à un cycle précédent (k-1), les contributions aux différents cycles étant régies par une première loi (f(k)) prédéterminée fonction du rang (k) du cycle ; et la durée d'un cycle (k) donné de la phase de conversion est inférieure à la durée d'un cycle précédent (k-1), les durées des différents cycles étant régies par une deuxième loi (Tc(k)) prédéterminée fonction du rang (k) du cycle dans la phase de conversion.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a delta sigma modulator comprising an oscillatable system which is provided with a characteristic frequency (f R ), an electronics unit and a regulation loop which acts the oscillatable system upon the electronics unit and vice versa. Said invention is characterised in that the regulation loop is embodied in such a way that an amplification in said regulation loop displays an amplification superelevation in a frequency range around the characteristic frequency (f R ) of the oscillable system.
Abstract:
Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, a resonator (110) such as an electromechanical resonator may be coupled with a cancellation network (112) to reduce and/or cancel an anti-resonance effect in the resonator (110), which may be due to, for example, a static capacitance (210) inherent in the resonator. Cancellation of an anti resonance effect from the resonator response may allow a resonance effect of the resonator (110) to be a predominant effect to allow the resonator (110) to be utilized as a bandpass filter having a relatively higher Q, for example in a bandpass sigma-delta modulator (526) that may be utilized in a digital RF receiver (800).