Multirate wire line modem apparatus

• US 5,177,734 A
• Filed: 12/10/1990
• Issued: 01/05/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 05/02/1988
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: ITT Corporation (ITT, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ITT Corporation (ITT, Inc.)
• Inventors: Kim, Richard, Epstein, Marvin, Gilmour, Paul A., Cummiskey, Peter
• Primary Examiner(s): Kuntz, Curtis
• Assistant Examiner(s): GHEBRETINSAE, TEMESGHEN
• Application Number:
  US07/624,570
• Time in Patent Office: 757 Days
• Field of Search: 370/32.1, 379/410, 379/411, 379/3
• US Class Current: 370/290
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/231 Echo cancellers using readout of a memory to provide the echo replica
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/235 combined with adaptive equaliser
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/238 using initial training sequence
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/00 Modulated-carrier systems

Abstract

Multirate wire line modem apparatus operable at either of two rates in either transmission or reception modes is provided according to the teachings of the instant invention. Full duplex operation and echo cancellation are utilized for both voice and data. Structurally an IOP processor acts as a system controller in controlling transmission and reception digital signal processors which provide the independent transmission and reception functions of the resulting multirate modem apparatus.

Claims

1. Echo cancellation apparatus for removing echo in received information comprising:

a sample delay line having a plurality of taps;

means for applying a transmit signal to said sample delay line, means for developing a cross correlation column vector between a given number of samples of said transmit signal over a given number of frames according to a tap position;

means for obtaining a new vector corresponding to the dot product function of an inverse transmit auto correlation matrix and said cross correlation column vector for each tap;

means for summing said new vector with said cross correlation column vector to obtain an echo estimate from the summed new vectors at each tap;

and

means for subtracting said echo estimate from said received information to develop modified received information with reduced echo.

2. The echo cancellation apparatus for removing echo in received information according to claim 1 wherein said echo estimate is derived in an adaptive manner by repetitively developing said echo estimate from said modified received information employing the use of a transmit auto correlation matrix as a whitening filter to speed convergence.

3. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 1 wherein said means for developing a cross correlation column vector between a given number of samples of said transmit signal over a given number of frames according to a tap position comprises:

a control processing state for each training phase of said taps, each signal control state having an input and an output;

means for applying an adaptation parameter to said input of each signal processing stage;

means for applying a tap sample signal associated with that tap to said input of each signal processing stage; and

means for developing a column vector for each selected tap at said output of said signal processing stage for that tap.

4. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 3 wherein said means for applying an adaptation parameter comprises means for obtaining the product of an adaptive constant and an error signal.

5. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for developing said cross correlation column vector between a given number of samples over a given number of frames wherein said given number of samples is thirty-six over one hundred frames.

6. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 5, wherein up to 5 ms. of transmit echo is removed.

7. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for obtaining a new vector corresponding to the dot product function of an inverse transmit auto-correlation matrix and the cross-correlation column vector includes:

means for providing correlation between a received information sample with said echo solution removed and another received information sample; and

means for providing a correlation sample at a small time interval determined by the frame rate.

8. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 1, further including means for obtaining an initial echo canceler solution having means for modifying said adaptation value to fractional values for purposes of improving echo cancellation.

9. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said means for subtracting said echo estimate from said received information to develop a modified received information includes means for supplying a signal to a gain multiplier for use in subsequent cancellations.

10. Echo cancellation apparatus for removing echo in received information, with said echo due to interference from a transmitted signal, comprising:

complex signal generator means for rotating baud impulses from the transmitter to provide a complex signal having different angles;

delay line means adapted to receive said transmitted signal and having a plurality of taps for providing a delayed transmit signal at each tap;

means responsive to said complex signal generator means for developing a vector history of information, which is the value of the vector in a previous frame, to be transmitted for each of said plurality of taps; and

for forming a tap adaptation value;

means for storing a plurality of tap adaptation values;

means for obtaining a series of dot products for a vector for tap information and a corresponding tap adaptation value to obtain a series of tap echo estimates;

means for dividing received information into a plurality of vectors corresponding to tap values to minimize processing load; and

means for summing said series of dot products and said vectors to obtain received information samples with said echo estimates removed.

11. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 10, wherein said echo estimates are derived in an adaptive manner by repetitively developing said echo estimates from received information samples with said echo estimates removed.

12. The echo cancellation apparatus according to claim 31, wherein said vector history of information to be transmitted comprises:

means for providing a plurality of transmit vectors each having a real and an imaginary part that are at the baud rate;

means for summing the real part of each transmit vector;

to provide an indication of the tap position of the transmit signal; and

means for rotating transmit vectors by the transmit carrier frequency to remove the imaginary part of said signal.