Digital phase detector
US5001489A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Nov 2, 1988 |
| Grant date | Mar 19, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Nov 2, 2008 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG01R25/00
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A phase detector receives two input digital signals representing Cartesian coordinates of a vector and outputs a digital signal indicative of the phase angle of the vector. The input digital signals are logarithms of the square of, for example, in-phase and quadrature components of a radar signal and are subtracted in the phase detector to produce a difference signal having a magnitude and a polarity. The polarities of the difference signal and the two information signals are used to determine the octant of the phase angle by addressing a read only memory. The magnitude of the difference signal is used as an address of a read only memory storing digital values corresponding to angles within an octant. The octant output by the first read only memory and the angle output by the second read only memory together indicate the phase angle of the vector.
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