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Phase-noise compensated digital communication receiver and method therefor

US6151368A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 22, 1999
Grant dateNov 21, 2000
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Expiry dateMar 22, 2019

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2027/0046
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A phase-noise compensated digital communication receiver (40, 40', 40") includes a carrier tracking loop (56) which imposes a transport delay on a carrier tracking loop signal (60) before that signal (60) is fed back upon itself. The carrier tracking loop (56) includes a phase rotator (58) that rotates a down-converted digital communication signal (50) by a phase determined by a phase-conveying signal (72). A carrier tracking loop signal is obtained from the carrier tracking loop and delayed in a delay element (82) by a duration that compensates for the transport delay. A phase rotator (84) then rotates the delayed carrier tracking loop signal through a phase value determined by the phase-conveying signal (72) to obtain an open-loop phase signal (86) from which data are extracted. Different embodiments of the receiver (40, 40', 40") are provided to accommodate adaptive equalizer (54) issues.

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