Low-power DSP squelch
US5023940A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Sep 1, 1989 |
| Grant date | Jun 11, 1991 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 1, 2009 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03G3/341
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
An improved method of statistically determining the presence of noise on an FM communications channel permits digital signal processing techniques to more reliably squelch unnecesssary segments of an FM receiver reducing noise and power consumption. Digital samples of an FM signal having real (in-phase) and imaginary (phase quadrature) components representing the real and imaginary components of a phasor rotating about the origin of a Cartesian coordinate system at a rate indicative of a signal on the channel are mathematically operated on. Successive digital samples are multiplied by the complex conjugate of temporally adjacent samples producing a new stream of phasors representative of the phase change between samples. The phase changes between samples are processed to produce a number that indicates the probability of the channel having noise present. This number indicative of the probability of noise content is compared to a threshold value and used to decide whether or not successive receiver stages should be squalched or unsquelched.
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