Abstract:
A delay buffer includes a first shift register (50) receiving input data and having a shift signal input port. The first shift register right shifts the input data responsive to a shift signal on the shift signal input port. The shift signal is determined based on an effective bit width of the input data. A first delay line (56) receives the shifted data from the first shift register while a second delay line (58) of equal length to the first delay line receives the shift signal. A second shift register (60) receives the output from the first delay line and receives the output of the second delay line on a shift signal input port (62). The second shift register then left shifts the data contained therein according to the shift signal.
Abstract:
A method of correcting phase error of a phase shift keyed (PSK) signal includes (a) receiving a signal modulated by a spreading sequence; (b) despreading the received signal using a receiver spreading sequence similar to the spreading sequence of step (a); (c) calculating a crosscorrelation profile between the receiver spreading sequence and the received signal; and (d) calculating an autocorrelation profile of the receiver spreading sequence to determine a spreading code property (SCP). The method also includes (e) estimating a timing error in alignment between the autocorrelation and the crosscorrelation profiles; and (f) correcting a phase error of the signal despread in step (c), by using the SCP and the estimated timing error.
Abstract:
Embodiments of an access point (AP), station (STA) and method for communication in accordance with frame formats of varying sizes of pilot portions are generally described herein. The AP may transmit, to the STA, a first downlink frame in accordance with a first downlink frame format. The AP may receive, from the STA, a phase noise measurement of the STA. The AP may select, based at least partly on the received phase noise measurement, a downlink frame format to enable a phase noise compensation at the STA. The AP may generate a downlink frame in accordance with the second downlink frame format, and may transmit the second downlink frame to the STA. In some cases, the first and second downlink frame formats may be based on different ratios of pilot portions to data portions.
Abstract:
A method and apparatus for performing residual phase noise compensation is described. A coarse carrier compensation of a received modulated signal is performed to obtain a coarse carrier compensated signal and a trellis-based residual carrier recovery is performed to estimate a residual phase noise of the coarse carrier compensated signal. The coarse carrier compensated signal is compensated based on the estimated residual phase noise.
Abstract:
A phase detector using simple arithmetic operations to measure phase errors in the carrier-recovery mechanism for a DQPSK digital communications receiver. The carrier-recovery mechanism is a feedback loop that provides a synchronization between the oscillators in the transmitter and receiver of the communications system; the phase detector measures deviations from this synchronization and generates a phase-error signal used in the feedback loop to synchronize the oscillators. To perform this measurement, the phase detector takes the received signal as input and compares it against a local oscillator in the receiver to generate two digital signals: the in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of the received signal. These signals are the input to a logic unit, which uses these two signals to determine the phase-error signal. In one embodiment of the phase detector, the logic unit analyzes the signs of the two digital signals and then accordingly adds or subtracts the I and Q signals to generate the phase-error signal. In another embodiment, the logic unit determines the magnitude of the phase-error signal by finding the difference in magnitudes of the two digital signals and constructing a phase-error signal proportional to this difference. The logic unit then determines the sign of the phase-error signal by analyzing the signs of the I and Q digital signals. The logic unit thus uses simple arithmetic operations to generate the phase-error signal, thereby reducing the complexity and cost of the phase detector.
Abstract:
A digitally compensated direct-conversion receiver includes devices for generating digital samples of a base-band in-phase signal and a base-band quadrature signal and for detecting the presence of a second-order product signal produced by an amplitude-modulated interfering signal. Also, the apparatus comprises a device for digitally compensating the digital samples by removing the second-order product signal, thereby producing compensated digital samples. In one method of digitally compensating samples of an information signal quadrature-modulating a carrier signal, estimated samples of a second-order product from a switched carrier signal are formed by averaging the digital samples during two time periods and by determining a time of ramps in the in-phase and quadrature signals that occur between the time periods due to the interfering signal. The digital samples may be differentiated and the results smoothed in determining the time of the ramps. In another apparatus, the estimated samples of the second-order product signal are produced by a device for averaging a square of a difference between respective digital samples of the in-phase signal and the quadrature signal, thereby determining an amplitude of the amplitude-modulated carrier signal, and a device for combining the amplitude and the digital samples, thereby generating the estimated samples.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a downconverter method and apparatus for downconverting a multiphase modulated signal. The downconverter can be implemented in a multi-phase receiver such as a quadrature receiver. An analog-to-digital converter (103) converts an intermediate frequency signal to a digital signal at a sampling rate. A Hilbert transformation filter (104) and a delay element (105) connected in parallel provide respective passband quadrature and in-phase components of the digital signal. A digital translator (107) alters the passband quadrature and in-phase components based on a predetermined pattern to provide a baseband quadrature signal and a baseband in-phase signal. The digital translator (107) can be a pseudorandom sequence demodulator for demodulating a code division multiple access (CDMA) signal. Various types of DC estimation can also be provided in addition to automatic gain control.
Abstract:
Circuit permettant de synchroniser un signal avec la temporisation d'un signal donne, ce circuit comprenant: de multiples etages de comptage numerique (16, 17) disposes sous forme de diviseurs de frequence afin de produire une sortie divisee en frequence a partir d'une entree de frequence, le facteur de division du diviseur de frequence etant reglable a l'une quelconque de deux valeurs au moins, l'une des deux etages de comptage etant un circuit de division par deux dispose de facon a produire ledit signal de sortie; des moyens de comparaison de temps (5) permettant d'effectuer des comparaisons repetees de la temporisation de la sortie du diviseur de frequence avec celle d'un signal de reference, et de produire pour chaque comparaison un premier signal si la sortie precede la reference et un second signal si cette sortie est en retard par rapport a la reference, lesdits moyens de comparaison comprenant un premier circuit bi-stable (5) du type D et un circuit detecteur de transition (3, 4), la sortie de ce dernier circuit etant connectee a l'entree HORLOGE du circuit bi-stable, et l'entree D du circuit bi-stable etant connectee de facon a recevoir la meme entree que ledit circuit de division par deux appartenant au diviseur de frequence; des moyens d'integration (10, 11) connectes a la sortie des moyens de comparaison de temps et permettant d'integrer le premier signal dans un sens et le second signal dans le sens oppose; et des moyens de reglage du facteur de division (12) permettant de regler le facteur de division a une premiere valeur plus elevee si la valeur integree depasse un seuil dans le sens considere, et a une deuxieme valeur, plus basse, si la valeur integree depasse le seuil dans le sens oppose.
Abstract:
A data transmission arrangement for bi-directional transmission of bit-sequences between a central unit (CCU) and a plurality of terminal units (TU1, TU2, ...) is provided which is particularly adapted for data acquisition and feedback signaling of messages, and for process control. In the arrangement the data transmission can occur simultaneously with the power supply of the terminal units over a two-lead cable (L), to which a large number of terminal units can be connected in parallel. The method of operation of the arrangement permits an advantageously simple construction of the transmission and reception equipment in the central unit and the terminal units.
Abstract:
Embodiments relate to an apparatus (100; 300; 400; 500; 600) for recovering a phase of a received signal (S in ) carrying pilot and information symbols, wherein the received signal has been transmitted over a communication channel (200), the apparatus comprising a phase estimator (110) operable to determine a phase estimate (115) of a phase of the communication channel using the received signal, wherein the phase estimator (110) commits a phase slip with a phase slip probability (P s , Ρ τ ) depending on the communication channel (200); a demodulator (120) operable to determine demodulated pilot and information symbols (125) based on a coherent reception of the received pilot and information symbols using the determined phase estimate (115); a phase slip detector (130; 330; 430; 530; 630) operable to detect the phase slip based on a phase difference between at least one demodulated pilot symbol and at least one corresponding transmitted pilot symbol; and a phase corrector (140; 340; 440; 540) operable to correct a phase of demodulated information symbols based on the detected phase slip.