Abstract:
FSK data signals are applied to a phase-locked loop whose binary signal output has an average amplitude which varies with the frequency of the incoming data signal. A zero-crossing detector produces a pulse for each zero crossing of the binary signal and the pulses are processed by a transversal digital filter having finite memory and arranged to provide triangular weighting to each input pulse. The baseband signal is then recovered from the filter output. In one embodiment, the zero-crossing detector and the transversal filter are advantageously arranged to be time shared by a plurality of FSK signal channels.
Abstract:
FSK signals in a digital sense are obtained from a memory comprising a table of forty numbers, representing amplitudes of points in one cycle of a sine wave, the points being separated by equal phase angles. A processor reads out, at a fixed rate, the numbers corresponding to each tenth or each eleventh point in accordance with the condition of an incoming binary signal, whereby the output numbers represent a frequency-shift wave. Digital circuitry is used and the modulator may be time shared by a plurality of data sources.
Abstract:
Sampled FSK data signals are converted to multibit numbers and processed by a digital filter receiver which includes a band-pass filter, a dual-resonator discriminator and a low-pass filter. The dc baseband data signal is reconstructed from the receiver output number by a ''''slicer'''' which detects the sign of the output numbers. The analog-to-number conversion is simplified by limiting the multibit numbers to be processed to two values, simulating the hard limiting of analog signals. Signal harmonics introduced by the nonlinearities of the analog-to-digital converter are substantially eliminated by fixing the sampling rate to a rate which interleaves, in the frequency spectrum, the filter aliases with the harmonies. The receiver is advantageously arranged to be time-shared by a plurality of channels.
Abstract:
Unity gain feedback places a second-order digital filter on the borderline of stability. The filter therefore oscillates in a numerical sense. Two feedback multipliers, each capable of determining a different central coefficient (and thus different oscillation frequencies) are alternatively inserted into an independent feedback path under control of an input baseband data signal whereby the output frequency is shifted in accordance with the input data. Phase discontinuities and amplitude variations due to the frequency shift are eliminated by extracting the numbers stored in the filter when a data transition occurs and reinserting new numbers representing samples of the new frequency wave, the new numbers further defining points on the new wave having the same instantaneous amplitude and phase as the wave samples defined by the extracted numbers.