Coded data generation or conversion – Analog to or from digital conversion – Differential encoder and/or decoder
Patent
1995-01-31
1998-04-07
Hoff, Marc S.
Coded data generation or conversion
Analog to or from digital conversion
Differential encoder and/or decoder
341166, H03M 302
Patent
active
057369500
ABSTRACT:
A band-pass sigma-delta modulator includes a translator for tuning to a selected signal passband within the tuning range of the modulator. In a network implementation, the translator is integral with each integrator associated with the sigma-delta modulator(s). The translator can comprise a network having a transfer function defined in the Z-domain as (Z.alpha.-1)/(Z-.alpha.), where -1.ltoreq..alpha..ltoreq.1 defines the tuning. The value of .alpha. is defined as .alpha..tbd.cos(2.pi.f.sub.gm /f.sub.s), where f.sub.gm is the geometric mean frequency of the passband and f.sub.s is the input sample frequency of the sigma-delta modulator(s). The invention can benefit many signal processing applications such as, for example, A/D, D/A and D/D converters; and digital communication systems including digital radio and digital TV. In digital communications (e.g., radio, TV, etc.), the invention can be used where it is desirable to digitize the full tuning range or bandwidth of a receiver at an intermediate frequency early in the processing chain, thus allowing digital tuning or mixing of the desired signal. Such digital mixing or tuning overcomes the limitations of analog mixers/receivers, for example limited linearity in dynamic range as well as the problems associated with aliasing, artifacts, ghosts, harmonics, distortion, gain and phase mismatch, etc. The sigma-delta modulator of the invention also provides variable bandwidth, is operationally stable and is easily and inexpensively realized.
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Caulfield Robert W.
Harris Frederick J.
McKnight William H.
Fendelman Harvey
Hoff Marc S.
Kagan Michael A.
Lipovsky Peter A.
The United States of America as represented by the Secretary of
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