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Direct digital synthesis in a QAM demodulator

US6249179A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateApr 17, 2000
Grant dateJun 19, 2001
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Expiry dateApr 17, 2020

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L2027/0081
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) type demodulator having a pair of direct digital synthesizer (DDS) circuits. The first DDS circuit is located in a baseband conversion circuit before a receive filter and digitally tunes the signal within the receive filter bandwidth. The second DDS circuit is within a carrier recovery circuit located after the receive filter and serves to fine tune the signal phase.

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