摘要:
A carrier-recovery loop for compensating frequency pulling in TDD and TDMA radio transceivers. The digital carrier-recovery loop includes a signal input, a digitally-controlled oscillator (DCO), a phase detector, a loop filter, and a memory. The memory stores an initializing value for the DCO, so that its frequency can be rapidly initialized at the start of a received frame. This initializing value is preferably either a sample of a control signal for the DCO, or a sample of the integrated value of a phase-error signal generated by the phase detector. Also described is a method for compensating the frequency pulling in a TDD or TDMA radio transceiver. The transceiver preferably receives data frames that have a preamble followed by a payload portion that holds the transmitted data. The method includes steps of (a) performing a carrier recovery during the preamble of a received frame, (b) storing a digital word indicative of a recovered carrier frequency at the end of the preamble, (c) continuing the carrier recovery during the payload portion of the received frame, (d) using the stored digital word to set an initial frequency for carrier recovery at the start of a subsequent frame, and (e) repeating said steps (a)-(d) for each frame in the series of data frames.
摘要:
A digital loop filter in the carrier-recovery loop of a digital communications receiver. The recovery loop is a PLL that keeps the receiver oscillator locked to the carrier wave, and the loop filter provides control over the PLL's frequency response by conditioning an error signal that is fed back to the receiver oscillator. In the present invention, the error signal is a digital signal, and the loop filter is implemented in digital hardware. With this implementation the characteristics of the loop filter are determined by logic design rather than by physical features of analog components, thereby giving this filter a more precise function than one with analog integrators. This implementation is also immune to the low tolerances typical of the manufacturing process for analog devices (especially on monolithic circuits), and is more easily adjusted than its analog counterparts. Two gain coefficients characterize the loop filter in the present invention. These gain coefficients are chosen to be powers of two, simplifying the process of multiplying them with the digital error signal. The gain coefficients are read from a memory, making the loop filter easily programmable. By changing the gain coefficients during operation of the receiver, the carrier-recovery loop can be placed in one of the several operating modes, including acquisition, tracking, and hold. The receiver can be configured with the appropriate values of the gain coefficients for each operating mode during the initial assembly and during subsequent reconfigurations.
摘要:
A digital cordless telecommunications unit that serves for communications when paired with a similar unit and connected with a network is disclosed. The unit receives analog receive voice signals and transmits analog transmit voice signals. In addition, the unit transmits digital baseband transmit signals and receives digital formatted baseband receive signals. The unit includes a baseband chip, as well as an audio functions circuit and a system control functions circuit. The audio functions circuit comprises an audio front end for receiving the analog receive voice signals and transmitting the analog transmit voice signals, and an adaptive differential pulse code modulator codec, connected to the audio front end, for converting the analog receive voice signals to the digital transmit signals and converting the digital formatted baseband receive signals to the analog transmit voice signals. The system control functions circuit comprises a microcontroller, connected to the codec, for controlling the baseband chip, a memory accessible by the microcontroller for storing control instructions, an interrupt controller connected to the microcontroller, a parallel port connected to the interrupt controller, a wake-up timer connected to the interrupt controller, a clock generator connected to the microcontroller, and a synchronous serial port connected to the interrupt controller.
摘要:
A telephone for digital cordless telecommunications includes a frame formatter for logical channel formatting of transmitted baseband signals and received baseband signals. The telephone comprises a radio interface connection with the frame formatter, a FIFO/codec interface conductively coupled to the frame formatter, an interrupt interface conductively coupled to the frame formatter, a data control logic interface conductively coupled to the frame formatter, and a microcontroller interface conductively coupled to the frame formatter.
摘要:
A method for generating transmit clock timing of a first communications unit of a communications system. The communications system includes the first communications unit and a second communications unit, each capable of communications with the other. The first communications unit has a first internal clock and the second communications unit has a second internal clock. According to one example embodiment, the method includes the steps of receiving a receive data signal by the first communications unit from the second communications unit, adjusting a receive reference clock to the receive data signal to generate an adjusted receive reference clock that tracks the receive data signal, accumulating the adjustments made in the adjusting step, applying the adjustments accumulated to vary the first internal clock in order to slave the first internal clock to the second internal clock of the second communications unit so as to generate an adjusted receive reference clock that is the adjusted and slaved first internal clock, and deriving a transmit clock from the adjusted receive reference clock.
摘要:
In a digital communication system for voice signals, a system and method for improving the quality of a received signal. The invention comprises a system for arranging the data and parity bits in a data frame and a corresponding method for analyzing and using the received frames. In the present invention, the data are conveyed in short independent segments, such as one or a few ADPCM nibbles. The length of each segment is chosen to be short enough that the loss of one segment of data from the received signal does not significantly degrade the quality of the output analog signal. The transmitter generates a parity bit for each of these segments and composes transmit frames by alternating data segments with their corresponding parity bits. The receiver then receives each data segment along with its corresponding parity bit. This arrangement allows the receiver to identify specific received segments that contain errors, and minimizes the receiver's delay between receiving the segment and determining if contains an error. The invention also comprises a system and method for detecting such an erroneous segment and blanking it. If a received frame contains more than a threshold number of erroneous segments, then the remaining segments of the frame can be muted. Subsequent frames can then also be muted until one of the subsequent frames contains fewer than a second threshold number of errors.
摘要:
A time division multiplexed communications system is disclosed. The system includes multiple transceiver pairs. Each of the transceiver pairs operates according to its own timer. The transceiver pairs each include circuitry that synchronizes the respective timers to a common frequency signal supplied to each of the transceiver pairs. By so synchronizing the timer of each transceiver pair to a common frequency signal, transmissions of all the transceiver pairs in the system are synchronized. Synchronization of transmissions can reduce noise and interference between neighboring transceiver pairs.
摘要:
A reset circuit that incorporates a battery monitor and watchdog timer in an integrated circuit is disclosed. A battery monitor having an output indicative of a charge state of a battery and a watchdog timer having an output indicative of an operational state of software being executed by the integrated circuit are connected to reset logic having a reset signal output, wherein the reset logic generates a reset signal on the reset signal output if either the battery monitor output or the watchdog timer output is active.
摘要:
A battery monitor with programmable voltage references. The battery monitor includes a comparator circuit connected to a battery for receiving a voltage level thereof and to a voltage reference circuit for receiving a at least one reference voltage generated thereby. A trim circuit is connected to the voltage reference circuit for adjusting the reference voltage(s) and generated by the voltage reference circuit. The comparator circuit compares the voltage level of the battery with the reference voltage(s) generates an output based on the relative value of the battery voltage compared to the reference voltage(s). The trim circuit is programmable and includes a microprocessor connected to a programmable register and a memory. The microprocessor obtains trim data from the memory and writes the trim data to the programmable register.
摘要:
A method for enabling communications between a first communications unit and a second communications unit. The first communications unit has a first crystal that provides first unit timing for that unit. The second communications unit has a second crystal that provides second unit timing for the second communications unit. The method includes the steps of receiving the first unit timing by the second communications unit, detecting a transition of a cycle of the first unit timing received, generating a reset pulse upon each detection of the transition of the cycle of the first timing unit received, and initiating a start-up of a new sequence of the second unit timing upon occurrence of the reset pulse. Operation according to the method allows for a wide variety of external protocols to be used with appropriate communications results.