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Distortion analyzer for quadrature demodulated data

US4627071A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 9, 1984
Grant dateDec 2, 1986
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Expiry dateNov 9, 2004

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L1/206
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Method and apparatus for displaying measures of distortion present at the outputs of a quadrature demodulator. From each of the in-phase and quadrature channels of the demodulator there are acquired n parallel bits, m of these bits being the demodulator data output of the associated channel and (n-m) bits being error bits for the channel. The n bits for each channel are converted to a signal acceptable to a plot display device and applied to orthogonal axes of the device. In addition, an absolute value of the (n-m) error bits for each channel is derived. This absolute value is filtered and displayed, as by a meter, for each channel.

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