Method and apparatus for recovering baud timing from correlation of intersymbol interference
US5832045A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 28, 1996 |
| Grant date | Nov 3, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 28, 2016 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L27/38
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A signal processing arrangement adjusts baud timing in a communication system receiver, wherein an information signal comprised of (sin(x))/x function contributions of successively adjacent bits is received via a memoryless channel. The information signal is sampled in accordance with a baud sampling clock signal, to derive successive samples of bits contained in the information signal. The sampling clock signal has a baud sampling clock frequency that is adjusted by a phase locked loop in accordance with a timing error signal. The signal processing arrangement comprises an intersymbol interference (ISI) correlation-driven baud timing recovery scheme which makes use of the fact that, for a given bit, at all instances in time other than where its peak occurs, the channel will contain energy from adjacent bits, so that there will be a substantial correlation of channel energy among successively adjacent bits of a transmitted sequence. On the other hand, for baud timing accurately at the peak of a given bit, none of the energy of any other bit will contribute to the energy at that baud time. The timing error signal is based upon ISI-correlation of adjacent bits.
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