Pulse or digital communications – Repeaters – Testing
Patent
1990-12-21
1992-07-21
Gregory, Bernarr E.
Pulse or digital communications
Repeaters
Testing
375 90, 380 46, 380 47, 370 18, H04L 2730
Patent
active
051329867
ABSTRACT:
The present invention provides new arrangements for various components of a CSK communication system: modulator, correlators, demodulator, carrier detection circuit, and synchronization control circuit. The various improvements provide more accurate demodulation of data from the received signal in the presence of noise and signal deterioration. A modulator configuration permits the CSK system to use two M series codes in which the second code is simply a phase shifted version of the first code. The PN correlators, via shift-registers, efficiently output two correlation signals. The demodulator accepts two correlation signals from the correlators, detects auto-correlation peaks in the correlation signals, and uses the peaks to accurately determine whether the received bit has a value of "1" or "0". The carrier detecting circuit detects the presence of data in the received signal. A carrier detecting circuit conveniently allows demodulation of data without exact synchronization of the center of demodulator's monitoring window to auto-correlation peaks. The synchronization control circuit generates accurate timing pulses that mark the start and end of each data bit. If auto-correlation peaks appear consistently in one location for the duration of N consecutive data bits, subsequent timing pulses are delayed in accordance with weighted averages of the stored locations of auto-correlation peaks. In one embodiment, separate correlation signal monitoring windows for demodulation and synchronization tracking may be set independently of each other, enabling the demodulator to clearly distinguish between an actual auto-correlation peaks and an inter-correlation peak, and the synchronization control circuit to attain stability by "averaging" out temporal effects of noise.
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Endo Kaoru
Takahashi Naomichi
Tsumura Soichi
Gregory Bernarr E.
NEC Home Electronics Ltd.
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