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Sampling system

US6181740A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateNov 18, 1997
Grant dateJan 30, 2001
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Expiry dateNov 18, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03M3/47
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A sampling system arranged such that a modulated signal received by an antenna and input via a low noise amplifier and a band-pass filter is sampled at a sampling frequency higher than the signal band of the modulated signal by a first sample and hold circuit and is input to an analog decimation filter to remove a frequency component which may turn out to be aliasing noise. The output of the analog decimation filter is sampled with a sampling frequency lower than the sampling frequency of the first sample and hold circuit by a second sample and hold circuit and is digitized by an A/D converter to be demodulated by a demodulator. The sampling system which can convert the modulated signal into a low frequency without using the highly precision mixer circuit or a filter having sharp characteristics may be provided by constructing as described above.

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