Abstract:
A process and device for generation of a random signal, and a digital-analog conversion system using such a random signal. The process includes a first noise generation step, a second noise filtering step to obtain a signal x(t) with a predetermined spectral envelope H(f), a third step in which a non-linear function g is applied to the signal x(t) in order to give a signal y(t) similar to a predetermined amplitudes histogram f(y), the function g being defined by the following relation: y = g ( x ) = α ∫ 0 x P ( u ) f ( u ) ⅆ u where the function P is the histogram of the signal x(t) to which the third step is applied, and a fourth step in which a pulse response filtering w(t) is applied to the signal y(t) to correct its spectral envelope and obtain an output signal s(t) with a predetermined spectral envelope H(f). The pulse response w(t) is the inverse Fourier transform of a frequency function W obtained by dividing the function H(f) by the modulus Y2(f) of the Fourier transform of the signal y(t). Such a process, device, and system may find particular application to a direct digital frequency synthesis, such as in radar or instrumentation applications.
Abstract:
Present-day single or multiple fractional phase-locked loop frequency synthesizers are not phase coherent for they use a digital accumulator modulo a number P with a variable increment K, whose state is a function of the history of the change in values that have been imposed on the increment. This lack of phase coherence rules out the use of these synthesizers in certain fields such as that of Doppler radars. A novel type of single or multiple fractional phase-locked loop frequency synthesizer that is coherent in phase is proposed herein. This type of synthesizer comprises one or more counters with an increment of one, having their rate set by the reference oscillator of the synthesizer and being used in phase memories to enable changes in the increment or increments following a change in the fractional division ratio at instants that are synchronous with the reference oscillator.