Digital Navstar receiver
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1. A receiver for a Navstar satellite navigation system, said receiver comprising:
- elements for amplification and down conversion to zero i.f. frequencies to produce quadrature signals representing a baseband signal phasor;
analogue-to-digital converters to digitise separately the quadrature signals;
means for locally generating digital codes;
means for correlating the digitised quadrature signals separately with the locally generated digital codes;
code and carrier tracking loops, and channel signal processing means for generating control signals for controlling the code and carrier tracking loops, the outputs of the correlation means being applied to the processing means;
correction means responsive to the control signals for effecting phase rotation of the baseband signal phasor to effect Doppler tracking in the carrier tracking loop;
said correlation means including a digital memory loaded with data in the form of "look-up" tables incorporating combinations of signal input conditions;
means for applying the digitised quadrature signals as partial address signals for the memory; and
said correlation means including means for generating additional address signals for the memory in response to the control signals;
whereby phase rotation correction is effected by accessing the memory in accordance with the address signals to produce an output signal for the channel signal processing means.
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Abstract
A receiver for a Navstar satellite navigation system wherein the satellite signals are down converted into zero i.f. quadrature signals (70a, 70b) and digitized (71a, 71b). The digitized signals address a PROM (72) together with additional bits representing phase rotation information (74) and locally generated code signals (e,l,p). The PROM is loaded with data in the form of "look-up" tables incorporating combinations of all input signal conditions whereby the combined address signals effect correlation and phase rotation simultaneously of the received signals.
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1. A receiver for a Navstar satellite navigation system, said receiver comprising:
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elements for amplification and down conversion to zero i.f. frequencies to produce quadrature signals representing a baseband signal phasor; analogue-to-digital converters to digitise separately the quadrature signals; means for locally generating digital codes; means for correlating the digitised quadrature signals separately with the locally generated digital codes; code and carrier tracking loops, and channel signal processing means for generating control signals for controlling the code and carrier tracking loops, the outputs of the correlation means being applied to the processing means; correction means responsive to the control signals for effecting phase rotation of the baseband signal phasor to effect Doppler tracking in the carrier tracking loop; said correlation means including a digital memory loaded with data in the form of "look-up" tables incorporating combinations of signal input conditions; means for applying the digitised quadrature signals as partial address signals for the memory; and said correlation means including means for generating additional address signals for the memory in response to the control signals; whereby phase rotation correction is effected by accessing the memory in accordance with the address signals to produce an output signal for the channel signal processing means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A receiver for the NAVSTAR satellite navigation system characterised in that the receiver includes a digital data memory means loaded with data in the form of "look-up" tables incorporating combinations of signal input conditions, means for converting the received satellite signals into digitised address signals for the memory means, said digitized address signals being digitized quadrature signal representations of a baseband signal phasor, channel signal processing means to which the outputs of the memory means are applied, and correction means responsive to control signals generated in the processing means to effect phase rotation correction of the baseband signal phasor to effect Doppler tracking in the receiver loop, said correction means generating additional memory address signals for the memory means whereby said phase rotation can be effected.
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