摘要:
A RF receiver for modulated RF signals based on a N-port junction (1) providing LO/RF isolation is proposed. N thereby is an integer larger than two, such that the N-port junction (1) can be preferably a three port, four port, five port and six port junction. The N-port junction (1) supplied with a first RF signal at a first input (2) and with a second RF signal originating from a local oscillator (2) at a second input (3). An isolation block (13) comprising an active circuitry (22) is comprised in the N-port junction for isolating the second input (3) from the first input (1). Thereby can be ensured that the LO signals are significantly attenuated at the RF port (2).
摘要:
A demodulator for modulated RF signals comprises a passive four port structure (1). The four port structure (1) has a first input (3) for supplying a modulated RF signal to be demodulated. A second input (2) is supplied with a RF signal from a local oscillator (21). Two output terminals are connected to power sensors (4, 5). The RF signal from the local oscillator (21) is supplied to the second input (3) of the four port structure (1) without being RF switched by an RF switch. The demodulator is particularly useful for modulation schemes with a finite number of magnitude states (nQAM modulation).
摘要:
A three port structure for the down conversion demodulation of a digitally modulated RF signal is proposed, wherein no RF switches are provided. The three port structure (1) has a first input (2) for the RF signal to be down converted and a second input (3) for a RF signal originating from a local oscillator (8). An output (4) of the three port structure (1) is supplied to a power sensor unit (5). The RF signal from the local oscillator (8) is modulated (7) before it is supplied to the three port structure (1).
摘要:
A down converter for RF signals comprises one three port junction (7) having one input port six for modulated digital RF signals and two output ports (8, 9). The output ports (8, 9) are respectively connected to a power sensor (10, 11). The three port junction (7) comprises a power splitter (16) dividing the signal supply to the input terminal (6) of the two branches, processing means (17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 24) for processing one of the branches and a four port junction device (20) for combining the two branches and for generating two output signals to be supplied to the output terminals (8, 9) of the three port junction (7). The processing means can comprise a delay unit (18) or alternatively a frequency divider (21), a plurality of filters (22, 24) and a frequency multiplicator (23).
摘要:
The present invention proposes a direct receiver technique based on one power measurement and time multiplexing of input signals. The proposed technique allows I/Q demodulation. The proposed technique bases on the passive linear three-port high frequency circuitry (1) having two RF signal input (2, 5) and one output port (3) attached to a power sensor (4). The signals output from the power sensor (4) is low pass filtered (17) and supplied to a DC interface. The proposed linear three-port circuitry (1) contains at least one RF switch and at least one passive circuit having at least one phase shifter functionality.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a demodulation structure and method for downconverting and demodulating a digitally modulated signal So, with a local oscillator means (1; 5; 8) for providing a local oscillator signal Slo a mixer means (2) for mixing said local oscillator signal Slo and said digitally modulated signal S0 in order to obtain a mixed signal, a lowpass filter means (3) for lowpass filtering the mixed signal from the mixer means (2) and an analog-to-digital converting means (4) for converting the filtered signal from the lowpass filter means (3) into a downconverted and demodulated digital signal Sl, whereby the local oscillator signal is set in respect to the modulated digital signal so that the downconverted and demodulated digital signal output from the analog-to-digital converting means comprises to serially arranged information parts. The present demodulation structure provides a very simple structure with improved amplitude and phase imbalances.
摘要:
The present invention relates to n-port junction devices for processing modulated digital RF signals, n being an integer larger than 3, the n-port junction device comprising two RF input ports (4, 5), two passive signal-combining means (2, 3) connected to each other wherein respectively one of the passive signal-combining means (2, 3) is connected to one of the RF inputs (4, 5), and at least two power sensors (P1, P2) wherein each of the passive signal-combining means (2, 3) has at least an output port (6, 7) and each output port (6, 7) is connected to a power sensor (P1, P2). The two passive signal-combining means (2, 3) are connected with each other by means of a phase shifting element (10).
摘要:
A dual frequency band transceiver (10) is provided adapted to be operated into different transmission frequency bands. A control unit (8) controls a switching (6) between a first transmission frequency band FC1 and a second transmission frequency band FC2, wherein the control unit (8) changes correspondingly and simultaneously to the switching (6) in the first transmission frequency band FC1 and the second transmission frequency band FC2 between a first and a second channel bandwidth. The first and the second channel bandwidth satisfies the following equation: n*BC1=m*BC2, wherein BC1 and BC2 are the first and the second channel bandwidth, respectively, and n and m are an integer values starting with 1.
摘要:
A high performance power detection circuit suitable to be made monolithic, being compact and low at cost, suitable to a radio-frequency operation in a wide band, having excellent linearity in detection characteristics, small fluctuation of detection characteristics against bias fluctuation, small fluctuation of detection characteristics against FET threshold voltage fluctuation and a small DC offset, which does not require an additional circuit even when a subsequent circuit has a balanced input; and a demodulator using the same. The power detection circuit uses two transistors (FET) Q101 and Q102 having approximately same characteristics, wherein a connection point of sources are connected to a resistor element R103 as a current source, are used as active elements; gates and drains of the transistors Q101 and Q102 are supplied with approximately same bias voltages; drains of them are supplied with approximately same drain bias voltages; a capacitor C104, wherein a capacitance value is set to be a sufficiently large value, is connected between sources of transistors Q101 and Q102 and a ground; capacitors C102 and C103, wherein capacitance values are approximately same and set to be sufficiently large values, are connected between drains of the transistors Q101 and Q102 and a ground; a radio-frequency signal RFin is supplied to a gate of the transistor Q101; and a voltage difference between a drain of the transistor Q101 and a drain of the transistor Q102 is regarded as a detection output.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method and a device for the I/Q demodulation of modulated RF signals. The I/Q demodulator (60) has a first input for the RF signal (61) to be demodulated and a second input for a RF signal (62) originating from a local oscillator (20). The demodulator (60) combines the two RF signals (61,62) to generate three output signals supplied to three power detectors. In a combination unit (70) the three power signals of the power detectors are merged in two signal branches wherein after passing an A/D converting (72) and digital processing unit (73) one signal is the I component and the other one is the Q component of the received modulated RF signal (61).