Abstract:
Systems and methods are provided in which a voltage-controlled oscillator for a radio transmitter includes a LC tank circuit, and a muting circuit. The LC tank circuit includes an inductive element and a capacitive element; wherein the inductive element of the LC tank circuit includes the antenna of the transmitter. The muting circuit can include a variable resistor connected in parallel with the LC tank circuit.
Abstract:
An apparatus and method for providing an output signal. The apparatus comprises an input for receiving a reference signal, an oscillator for providing an output signal, and an offset signal generator for frequency multiplying the reference signal to generate an offset signal that has a plurality of frequency products in a plurality of frequency bands. The apparatus further includes a mixer for mixing the offset signal with the output signal to produce a combined signal, an offset frequency selector for controllably selecting a frequency band of the offset signal, and a difference detector for detecting a difference between the reference signal and the combined signal and for providing a control signal to the oscillator based on the detected difference.
Abstract:
A method (1300) includes demodulating phase contamination in an input signal to generate a baseband signal ( 1306). The method also includes modulating the input signal based on the baseband signal to generate an output signal which has less phase contamination than the input signal (1308). The phase contamination may be demodulated using a phase demodulator or a frequency modulation (FM) detector. A portion of the input signal may be down-converted to a lower frequency, and the phase contamination in the down-converted portion of the input signal may be demodulated. Additional phase contamination in the output signal may be demodulated and used to regulate a level of the baseband signal used during modulation of the input signal (1312). The output signal may have less phase noise or period jitter than the input signal.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a system, apparatus and method for recovering a client signal clock. The present invention is able to more effectively remove jitter within a clock signal by providing a phase shifting element in the feedback of a PLL system to compensate for sudden changes in an input reference clock. The PLL system provides flexible clock recovery so that it can accommodate various payload types because it extracts a client clock signal independent of a corresponding justification count number.
Abstract:
A signal synthesiser arrangement includes a signal generator in the form of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) (10) which generates a high frequency source signal under the control of a control unit (16). The synthesiser control unit (16) controls the oscillator (10) to produce an output signal of a given frequency. The output signal of frequency F1 from the oscillator (10) is provided to a signal mixer (12). It is also input to a frequency divider (15), which divides it by a value N1 to produce an "offset frequency" signal F2 which is also provided to the mixer (12). The mixer (12) combines these signals and provides the combined signal to a bandpass filter (11) which filters the combined signal to select and provide one of the "sideband" signals produced by the mixer, i.e. F1 + F2, or F1 - F2, as its output signal F3, while suppressing the unwanted, other sideband signal. The output signal F3 from the filter (11) is further frequency divided by a second value N2 in a further frequency divider (17) to produce a signal of frequency Fout that can be used as a carrier frequency signal for a radio transmitter.
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:
Disclosed is a dual band wireless phone, such as a cellular phone for a mobile communications system, with a dual band transmitter (1) that includes a phase-locked loop (PLL) (73). The dual band transmitter (1) includes first and second power amplifiers (58, 60) and the PLL. The first power amplifier (58) has a first input for a first signal at a first radio frequency band, and a first output (80) for an amplified first signal. The second power amplifier (60) has a second input for a second signal at a second radio frequency band and a second output (82) for an amplified second signal. The outputs of the power amplifiers are connectable to an antenna (11). The PLL generates two outputs frequency ranges and includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) (10) which has a first output connected to the first power amplifier and generates a first signal. A frequency multiplier (28) has an input connected to the first output of the VCO (10) and a second output connected to the second power amplifier (60). The frequency multiplier receives the first signal and generates the second signal.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus for transmitting RF signals in two widely separated frequency bands. The RF signals in the two frequency bands have the same modulated bandwith. The apparatus utilizes essentially the same radiocommunication apparatus structure as in a radiocommunication apparatus designed for only one frequency band. RF signals for one frequency band are obtained when a first frequency multiplier (118) is connected, thereby generating RF signals by multiplying VCO signals from a VCO (107) by a factor k. The RF signals for the other frequency band are obtained from said VCO (107) when the first frequency multiplier (118) is not connected. When the first frequency multiplier (118) is connected, the modulated bandwidth of the VCO signals will also be multiplied by the factor k. This is compensated in a phase locked loop (104) by connecting a second frequency multiplier (115), having the same multiplication factor k, at the same time as the first multiplier (118) is connected. The second multiplier (115) affects the bandwidth of the modulated VCO signal so that it will be k times smaller. The bandwidth of the modulated VCO signal is then recreated by the first multiplier (118).
Abstract:
In general, the present invention provides a low cost mechanism for reducing the settling time and/or improving the phase noise performance of a frequency synthesizer in a mobile station. In one embodiment (Fig. 7), the present invention eliminates the need for using two transmit offset synthesizers (44 and 52) (Fig. 5) in a mobile station (100) (Fig. 6) which must be able to operate on two different frequency bands characterized by different transmit-receive (TX-RX) channel separation. According to the present invention, one or both of the transmit offset synthesizers (44 and 52) may be eliminated by deriving an appropriate transmit offset signal from an auxiliary synthesizer (38) in the mobile station (100) through a relatively simple and inexpensive frequency scaling circuit (e.g., frequency divider or multiplier) (130), and by using a fast settling main channel synthesizer (140) to hop between two different frequencies when the mobile station (100) is switching between transmitting and receiving, respectively.