Spread spectrum demodulation using a subsampling communication receiver architecture
    1.
    发明授权
    Spread spectrum demodulation using a subsampling communication receiver architecture 有权
    使用子采样通信接收机架构进行扩频解调

    公开(公告)号:US07356069B2

    公开(公告)日:2008-04-08

    申请号:US10132624

    申请日:2002-04-25

    IPC分类号: H04B1/707

    摘要: A first periodic voltage waveform (20) is downconverted into a second periodic voltage waveform (35, 36). A plurality of temporally distinct samples (SA1, SA2, . . . ) respectively indicative of areas under corresponding fractional cycles of the first voltage waveform are obtained. The samples are obtained in response to a control signal indicative of a code used to produce the first voltage waveform, and the samples are combined to produce the second voltage waveform.

    摘要翻译: 第一周期性电压波形(20)被下变频成第二周期性电压波形(35,36)。 获得分别表示第一电压波形的相应分数周期下的面积的多个时间上不同的样本(SA 1,SA 2 ...)。 响应于指示用于产生第一电压波形的代码的控制信号而获得样本,并且采样被组合以产生第二电压波形。

    Sampling mixer with asynchronous clock and signal domains
    2.
    发明授权
    Sampling mixer with asynchronous clock and signal domains 有权
    具有异步时钟和信号域的采样混频器

    公开(公告)号:US08027657B2

    公开(公告)日:2011-09-27

    申请号:US10121761

    申请日:2002-04-12

    IPC分类号: H04B1/26 H04L27/00

    CPC分类号: H03D7/125 H04B1/1036

    摘要: A mixer 1100 with a plurality of signal paths typically requires separate clock generating hardware for each signal path. However, the redundancy of having multiple clock generating hardware significantly increases power consumption and integrated circuit area when the mixer 1100 is integrated into silicon. A method and apparatus 1125 containing a circuit for generating a set of clock signals that can be shared by the different signal paths is presented. Advantage is taken of the significant capacitance difference between different sampling capacitors in the mixer and the superposition property.

    摘要翻译: 具有多个信号路径的混频器1100通常需要用于每个信号路径的单独的时钟产生硬件。 然而,当混合器1100集成到硅中时,具有多个时钟产生硬件的冗余显着地增加了功耗和集成电路面积。 提出了一种包含用于生成可由不同信号路径共享的一组时钟信号的电路的方法和装置1125。 利用混频器中不同采样电容器之间的显着电容差和叠加特性。

    Sampling mixer with asynchronous clock and signal domains
    4.
    发明授权
    Sampling mixer with asynchronous clock and signal domains 有权
    具有异步时钟和信号域的采样混频器

    公开(公告)号:US07623838B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-11-24

    申请号:US11028995

    申请日:2005-01-03

    IPC分类号: H04B1/26

    CPC分类号: H03D7/125 H04B1/1036

    摘要: A mixer 1100 with a plurality of signal paths typically requires separate clock generating hardware for each signal path. However, the redundancy of having multiple clock generating hardware significantly increases power consumption and integrated circuit area when the mixer 1100 is integrated into silicon. A method and apparatus 1125 containing a circuit for generating a set of clock signals that can be shared by the different signal paths is presented. Advantage is taken of the significant capacitance difference between different sampling capacitors in the mixer and the superposition property.

    摘要翻译: 具有多个信号路径的混频器1100通常需要用于每个信号路径的单独的时钟产生硬件。 然而,当混合器1100集成到硅中时,具有多个时钟产生硬件的冗余显着地增加了功耗和集成电路面积。 提出了一种包含用于生成可由不同信号路径共享的一组时钟信号的电路的方法和装置1125。 利用混频器中不同采样电容器之间的显着电容差和叠加特性。

    Sigma-delta (ΣΔ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) structure incorporating a direct sampling mixer
    6.
    发明授权
    Sigma-delta (ΣΔ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) structure incorporating a direct sampling mixer 有权
    结合直接采样混频器的Sigma-delta(SigmaDelta)模数转换器(ADC)结构

    公开(公告)号:US07057540B2

    公开(公告)日:2006-06-06

    申请号:US10273217

    申请日:2002-10-17

    IPC分类号: H03M3/00

    CPC分类号: H03M3/47 H03M3/496 H04B1/1036

    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.

    摘要翻译: Σ-Δ模数转换器 - 具有噪声整形和高频操作等优点。 然而,需要提供具有低噪声特性的高度过采样离散时间采样流所需的采样电路难以设计和实现。 本发明提供了具有这种采样电路310的Σ-Δ混合器300。 本发明公开了一种使用具有低噪声特性的开关电容器307,308和309的采样电路,同时能够提供高度过采样的离散时间采样流。

    Apparatus for and method of noise suppression and dithering to improve resolution quality in a digital RF processor
    8.
    发明申请
    Apparatus for and method of noise suppression and dithering to improve resolution quality in a digital RF processor 审中-公开
    噪声抑制和抖动的装置和方法,以提高数字RF处理器中的分辨率质量

    公开(公告)号:US20050186920A1

    公开(公告)日:2005-08-25

    申请号:US11062254

    申请日:2005-02-18

    CPC分类号: H03L7/16 H03L2207/50

    摘要: A novel apparatus for and a method of noise and spurious tones suppression in a digital RF processor (DRP). The invention is well suited for use in highly integrated system on a chip (SoC) radio solutions that incorporate a very large amount of digital logic circuitry. The noise suppression scheme eliminates the noise caused by various on chip interference sources transmitted through electromagnetic, power, ground and substrate paths. The noise suppression scheme permits an all digital PLL (ADPLL) to operate in such a way to avoid generating the spurs that would normally be generated from the injection pulling effect of interfering sources on the chip. The frequency reference clock is retimed to be synchronous to the RF oscillator clock and used to drive the entire digital logic circuitry of the DRP. This ensures that the different clock edges throughout the system will not exhibit mutual drift. A method of improving the resolution quality of a time to digital converter within the ADPLL is also taught. The method dithers the reference clock by passing it through a delay circuit that is controlled by a sigma-delta modulator. The dithered reference clock reduces the affect on the phase noise at the output of the ADPLL due to ill-behaved quantization of the TDC timing estimation.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于数字RF处理器(DRP)中的噪声和伪噪声抑制的新型装置和方法。 本发明非常适用于结合了大量数字逻辑电路的高度集成的片上系统(SoC)无线电解决方案。 噪声抑制方案消除了通过电磁,电源,接地和基板路径传输的各种片上干扰源引起的噪声。 噪声抑制方案允许所有数字PLL(ADPLL)以这样的方式操作,以避免产生通常由芯片上的干扰源的注入拉动效应产生的杂散。 频率参考时钟重新定时与RF振荡器时钟同步,用于驱动DRP的整个数字逻辑电路。 这确保了整个系统中不同的时钟沿不会出现相互漂移。 还提出了一种提高ADPLL内数字转换器的分辨率质量的方法。 该方法通过将参考时钟传递通过由Σ-Δ调制器控制的延迟电路来抖动参考时钟。 由于TDC定时估计的不正确的量化,抖动参考时钟降低了对ADPLL输出的相位噪声的影响。

    System and method for amplifier gain measurement and compensation
    9.
    发明授权
    System and method for amplifier gain measurement and compensation 有权
    放大器增益测量和补偿的系统和方法

    公开(公告)号:US07639082B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-12-29

    申请号:US11847961

    申请日:2007-08-30

    IPC分类号: H03F3/04

    摘要: A system and method for amplifier gain measurement and compensation. A method for compensating a signal gain of an amplifier circuit includes determining a desired gain for the amplifier circuit, determining an operating temperature of the amplifier circuit, adjusting a set of signal gains based on the operating temperature to produce a set of adjusted signal gains, determining a desired gain setting based on the desired gain and the set of signal gains, and providing the desired gain setting to the amplifier circuit.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于放大器增益测量和补偿的系统和方法。 用于补偿放大器电路的信号增益的方法包括确定放大器电路的期望增益,确定放大器电路的工作温度,基于工作温度调整一组信号增益以产生一组经调整的信号增益, 基于期望的增益和所述一组信号增益确定期望的增益设置,以及向放大器电路提供期望的增益设置。

    Direct radio frequency (RF) sampling with recursive filtering method
    10.
    发明授权
    Direct radio frequency (RF) sampling with recursive filtering method 有权
    直接射频(RF)采样采用递归滤波法

    公开(公告)号:US07519135B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-04-14

    申请号:US10190867

    申请日:2002-07-08

    IPC分类号: H03K5/01

    CPC分类号: H03D7/125 H04B1/1036

    摘要: A radio receiver 2000 with a sampling mixer 1100 for creating a discrete-time sample stream by directly sampling an RF current with history and rotating capacitors 1111 and 1112, wherein the accumulated charge on the rotating capacitors is read-out to produce a sample. The mixer provides immunity to noise glitches by predicting the occurrence of the glitch (or detecting a significant difference between observed and predicted samples) and creating corrected samples for the corrupted samples. These corrected samples can be created with special circuitry 1933 (digital) or in the mixer 1100 (analog).

    摘要翻译: 具有采样混合器1100的无线电接收机2000,用于通过用历史和旋转电容器1111和1112直接采样RF电流来产生离散时间采样流,其中读出旋转电容器上的累积电荷以产生样本。 混合器通过预测毛刺的发生(或检测观察到的和预测的样品之间的显着差异)并为损坏的样品产生校正的样品来提供对噪声毛刺的免疫。 这些校正样本可以用专用电路1933(数字)或混合器1100(模拟)来创建。