Use of a chopper and a sigma-delta modulator for downconverting

Demodulators – Phase shift keying or quadrature amplitude demodulator – Input signal combined with local oscillator or carrier...

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329325, 329341, 329343, 329356, 329360, 331 27, 331 60, 375321, 375327, 375328, 375376, H03D 124, H04L 2722

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ABSTRACT:
To demodulate an analog signal having information modulated by a carrier, the analog signal is chopped by a chopper, the chopped signal is digitized by a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter to produce a series of digital samples at a sampling frequency, the digital samples are filtered in a digital decimating filter to produce data words, and the data words are modulated by an intermediate frequency signal to produce a detected information signal. The various frequency signals are generated by a phase-lock loop so that the intermediate frequency is the difference between the carrier frequency and the chopping frequency, and both the chopping frequency and the intermediate frequency are sub-multiples of the sampling frequency. Therefore aliases and artifacts caused by the chopper are either cancelled or fall on multiples of the output sampling frequency, and the intermediate frequency signal can be a square wave without generating artifacts that need be removed by filtering of the detected information signal. Preferably the chopper is placed in an analog portion of a feedback loop of the sigma-delta modulator, and an exclusive-OR gate is placed in the digital portion of the feedback loop, so that the gain of the demodulation process becomes independent of the gain of the chopper. The detection process is especially suited for detecting an angular-rate signal from a vibrating quartz angular rate sensor, because the detection process has very high accuracy, resolution, and linearity.

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