Telecommunications – Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter – Signal selection based on frequency
Patent
1996-04-18
1998-06-30
Urban, Edward F.
Telecommunications
Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter
Signal selection based on frequency
4551841, 455199, 455 75, 455 62, 375344, H04B 118
Patent
active
057747997
ABSTRACT:
A robust automatic frequency control (AFC) loop for use in radio frequency systems performs a threshold test on the accumulated error adjustments for controlling a frequency oscillator. Based on this test, the loop adjusts the value contained in the error accumulator to allow the receiver to remain locked to a desired frequency carrier even in the presence of a strong adjacent channel interferer. The AFC loop is designed to be used in error systems where the predetermined fixed carrier spacing. Assuming that the initial frequency error is never exceeded by one-half the carrier spacing, the system can determine if the wrong channel has been locked to if the oscillator in the AFC loop is corrected by more than half the carrier spacing. Through use of a threshold test on the accumulative oscillator correction, the AFC loop can determine if the receiver has locked to an adjacent interfering channel. Having determined such a lock has occurred, the oscillator can be adjusted by plus or minus one channel, thus reestablishing connection of the AFC loop to the desired channel.
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Bottomley Gregory E.
Croft Thomas M.
Koilpillai Ravinder D.
Armstrong Darnell R.
Ericsson Inc.
Urban Edward F.
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