FM TRANSMITTER

• US 20090268916A1
• Filed: 06/27/2006
• Published: 10/29/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Ricoh Company Limited, Niigata Seimitsu Co., Ltd. (Tetsuo Funai)
• Inventors: Miyagi, Hiroshi
• Application Number:
  US12/067,164
• Publication Number:
  US 20090268916A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 381/3
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/40 using two signal paths the outputs of which have a predetermined phase difference and at least one output being amplitude-modulated
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 5/00 Amplitude modulation and angle modulation produced simultaneously or at will by the same modulating signal H03C7/00 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/48 for FM stereophonic broadcast systems

Abstract

An FM transmitter improved in degree of freedom of selecting components. The FM transmitter comprises an oscillator 72 connected to a crystal oscillator 70, a clock generating circuit 50 for generating a clock signal having a frequency which is an integral multiple of the frequency of the output signal from the oscillator 72 by using the output signal as a reference frequency signal fr1, a DSP 20 operable synchronously with the clock signal and adapted for conducting digital stereo modulation, digital FM modulation, and digital IQ modulation of inputted stereo data, a frequency synthesizer 60 for generating a signal having a frequency which is an integral multiple of the frequency of the output signal from the oscillator 72 by using the output signal as a reference frequency signal fr2, mixers 40, 42 for mixing the signals outputted from the DSP 20 with the signal generated by the frequency synthesizer 60, an adder 44 for adding the outputs from the mixers 40, 42, and amplifier 46 for amplifying the output signal from the adder 44 to transmit it from an antenna 48.

Claims

1. An FM transmitter, comprising:

an oscillator connected with a crystal resonator;

a clock generating circuit for generating a clock signal synchronized with an output signal of the oscillator;

a digital signal processor inputted with the clock signal generated by the clock generating circuit as an operation clock and performing a stereo modulation operation for stereo data by digital processing; and

a carrier wave generating circuit directly inputted with the output signal of the oscillator and generates a carrier wave of synchronizing with the output signal and having a frequency of an integer multiple of a frequency of the output signal;

wherein an FM modulation signal frequency-modulated by a stereo composite signal obtained by stereo modulating the carrier wave performed by the digital signal processor is transmitted.

2. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein respective functions of the oscillator excepting for the crystal resonator, the clock generating circuit, the digital signal processor, and the carrier wave generating circuit are integrally formed on a semiconductor substrate by using a semiconductor process.

3. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the clock generating circuit is a first PLL circuit in which the output signal of the oscillator is inputted as a first reference frequency signal fr1, and

wherein, when a dividing ratio of a first frequency divider included in the first PLL circuit is taken as an integer m, the clock signal having a frequency m times the frequency of the first reference frequency signal fr1 is generated.

4. The FM transmitter according to claim 3, wherein the carrier wave generating circuit is a second PLL circuit in which the output signal of the oscillator is inputted as a second reference frequency signal fr2, and

wherein, when a dividing ratio of a second frequency divider included in the second PLL circuit is taken as an integer n, the carrier wave having a frequency n times the frequency of the second reference frequency signal fr2 is generated.

5. The FM transmitter according to claim 4, wherein the second PLL circuit is a frequency synthesizer variable in dividing ratio n of the second frequency divider, and

wherein a control section is further provided in which, by changing the dividing ratio n, the frequency of the output signal of the second PLL circuit is set variable at the frequency allocation interval of an FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of the frequency allocation of interval.

6. The FM transmitter according to claim 4, wherein the carrier wave generating circuit outputs a signal, in which the signal generated by the second PLL circuit is divided by a third frequency divider of a dividing ratio L, as the carrier wave.

7. The FM transmitter according to claim 6, wherein the second PLL circuit is a frequency synthesizer variable in a dividing ratio n of the second frequency divider, and

wherein, by changing the dividing ratio n, a control section for variably setting the frequency of the output signal of the second PLL circuit at a frequency interval multiplied by a dividing ratio L of the third frequency divider for the frequency allocation interval of the FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of the frequency allocation interval is further provided.

8. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the crystal resonator is an FM transmitter having a natural vibration frequency unmatched with the frequency allocation interval of the FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of this frequency allocation interval.

9. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the crystal resonator is an FM transmitter having the natural vibration frequency unmatched with the frequency allocation interval of the FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of this frequency allocation interval, and moreover, unmatched with an integer multiple of 19 kHz.

10. The FM transmitter according to claim 6, wherein the crystal resonator is an FM transmitter having the natural vibration frequency unmatched with the frequency multiplied by a dividing ratio L of the third frequency divider for the frequency allocation interval of the FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of the frequency allocation interval, and moreover, unmatched with an integer multiple of 19 kHz.

11. The FM transmitter according to claim 8, wherein the crystal resonator is an FM transmitter having the natural vibration frequency of 32.768 kHz.

12. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the crystal resonator is an FM transmitter having the natural vibration frequency matching the frequency allocation interval of the FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of the frequency allocation interval.

13. The FM transmitter according to claim 6, wherein the crystal resonator is an FM transmitter having the natural vibration frequency matching the frequency multiplied by a dividing ratio L of the third frequency divider for the frequency allocation interval of the FM broadcast wave or an integer fraction of the frequency allocation interval.

14. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the digital signal processor is an FM transmitter performing an FM modulation operation for the stereo composite signal obtained by the stereo modulation operation and an IQ modulation operation for extracting an I component and a Q component of the signal after the FM modulation.

15. The FM transmitter according to claim 14, wherein the carrier wave generating circuit generates two types of the carrier waves mutually different 90 degrees in phase, and further comprises the transmitting circuit which has two mixers for mixing either one of two types of signals corresponding to the I component and the Q component respectively extracted by the digital signal processor and either one of said two types of carrier waves generated by the carrier wave generating circuit separately, an adder for adding two types of the mixed signals obtained by these two mixers, and an amplifier for amplifying output signal from the adder and transmitting the output signal amplified via the antenna.

16. The FM transmitter according to claim 4, wherein the second PLL circuit is an FM transmitter having an oscillator to change in oscillation frequency according to an amplitude of the stereo composite signal obtained by the stereo modulation operation by the digital signal processor.

17. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein, in place of the oscillator connected with the crystal resonator, an external circuit is connected, and in place of the output signal of the oscillator connected with the crystal resonator, a signal supplied from the external circuit is used.

18. The FM transmitter according to claim 2, wherein the semiconductor process is a CMOS process.

19. The FM transmitter according to claim 1, wherein the crystal resonator has the natural vibration frequency lower than 38 kHz.