Abstract:
In a broadcast system having a complex waveform of digital and analog segments, frame timing is recovered (290) and the frame synchronous power (284) of the digital portion of the composite AM compatible Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) waveform is measured by examining a portion of the signal (284). The frame timing necessary for proper demodulation is recovered from the received signal (200), and a signal power measurement for scaling (242) is provided (294). The composite AM compatible DAB waveform is produced by a modulation method in which a digital representation of an audio signal is encoded together with an analog amplitude modulated (AM) signal and transmitted simultaneously in the same frequency channel.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method and apparatus for demodulating a composite AM DAB waveform which contains digitally modulated carriers and which employ a mixer (180) for converting a received signal (170) into two signals, the first of these signals represents an in-phase component and the second of the signals represents a quadrature component, two analog-to-digital converters (182, 184) for converting the two signals into digital signals, and two fast Fourier transform elements (188, 190) for extracting data separately from the two digital signals. Complementary digital carrier signals are recovered from the quadrature, and non-complementary digital carriers are derived from a sum of the complementary data and the output of the in-phase component FFT process. Leakage of the AM signal through a highpass filter (186) is prevented from interfering with the demodulation of the complementary carrier signal's use of separated demodulation channels.