Pulse or digital communications – Receivers – Automatic frequency control
Patent
1995-08-17
1998-05-26
Chin, Wellington
Pulse or digital communications
Receivers
Automatic frequency control
4551961, 455264, H04L 2706
Patent
active
057578648
ABSTRACT:
The present invention relates to circuitry for a receiver having a low cost filter using automatic alignment of the center frequency of signals input to the filter to suppress noise and out-of-band signals from the filter output over a narrow bandwidth. An RF input signal to the receiver is downconverted to an IF frequency using a VCO, and the IF signal is provided to the low cost filter. The output of the filter is input to a frequency correction circuit and a distortion detection circuit. The distortion detection circuit provides an error signal including positive frequency shift errors determined from digital ones identified from the filter output signal, and negative frequency shift error signals determined from digital zeros in the filter output signal. The distortion detection circuit output is then provided through an infinite impulse response filter which integrates the distortion detection output to provide a voltage control signal to a voltage control input of the VCO and the frequency correction circuit. The VCO then automatically centers the frequency of the signal input to the low cost filter to suppress noise and out-of-band signals, and the frequency correction circuit removes error correction frequency shift provided by the VCO after downconversion. For battery powered devices, the infinite impulse response filter can maintain the state of the voltage control signal provided to the VCO upon receipt of a sleep mode signal after the sleep mode signal is disabled.
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Lipowski Joseph T.
Petranovich James E.
Chin Wellington
Cray William C.
Oh Susie H.
Rockwell Semiconductor Systems Inc.
Tran Congvan
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