Digital quadrature radio receiver with two-step processing

• US 5,222,144 A
• Filed: 10/28/1991
• Issued: 06/22/1993
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/1991
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Visteon Global Technologies Incorporated (Visteon Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Ford Motor Company
• Inventors: Whikehart, J. William
• Primary Examiner(s): Isen, Forester W.
• Application Number:
  US07/783,470
• Time in Patent Office: 603 Days
• Field of Search: 381/15, 381/16, 375/39, 375/94
• US Class Current: 381/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/16 Circuits

Abstract

A digital signal processing (DSP) radio receiver employs a conventional analog RF tuner to produce an analog intermediate frequency. The receiver performs DSP functions of digitally sampling the analog intermediate frequency at a sampling rate f_s, concurrently mixing, filtering, and sample-rate reducing the sampled intermediate frequency using a digital filter for inherently generating a near-zero complex intermediate frequency signal, and synchronously detecting the complex IF signal. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is employed to reproduce AM stereo signals.

Claims

1. A receiver for digitally processing an analog radio-frequency (RF) broadcast signal comprising:

tuner means for receiving said analog RF broadcast signal and generating an analog intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a frequency f_a ;

analog-to digital converter means operating at a fixed sampling rate f_s and coupled to said tuner means for converting said analog IF signal to a first digital IF signal comprised of a plurality of samples, said first digital IF signal being contained in the frequency range between zero and f_s /2, said first digital IF signal having a center frequency f_d1 about equal to f_s /4;

concurrent complex mixing, filtering, and sample-rate reducing means coupled to said analog-to-digital converter means for generating a complex IF signal having a near-zero center frequency f_d2 within the frequency range from -f_s /8 to +f_s /8, said complex IF signal having an in-phase component I and a quadrature-phase component Q each being formed from weighted alternate samples of said first digital IF signal according to a set of predetermined weights, said weights corresponding to a complex nonsynchronous mixing signal having a frequency equal to f_s /4 and corresponding to a reduction in sampling rate by a whole multiple of 4; and

second complex mixing means coupled to said concurrent means for synchronously detecting said complex IF signal, said second complex mixing means including a variable oscillator producing sine and cosine signals locked to the frequency and phase of said complex IF signal.

2. A receiver for receiving stereo signals broadcast in the C-QUAM format comprising:

tuner means for receiving said analog broadcast signal and generating an analog C-QUAM intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a frequency f_a ;

analog-to-digital converter means operating at a fixed sampling rate f_s and coupled to said tuner means for converting said analog IF signal to a first digital IF signal comprised of a plurality of samples, said first digital IF signal being contained in the frequency range between zero and f_s /2, said first digital IF signal having a center frequency f_d1 ;

concurrent complex mixing, filtering, and sample-rate reducing means coupled to said analog-to-digital converter means for generating a complex IF signal within the frequency range from -f_s /8 to +f_s /8 and having a center frequency f_d2, said complex IF signal having an in-phase component I and a quadrature-phase component Q each being formed from weighted alternate samples of said first digital IF signal according to a set of predetermined weights, said weights corresponding to a complex nonsynchronous mixing signal having a frequency equal to f_s /4 and corresponding to a reduction in sampling rate by a whole multiple of 4;

a synchronous detector demodulating said complex IF signal to produce a detected C-QUAM signal including a synchronous-detector I signal and a synchronous-detector Q signal, said detected C-QUAM signal having a phase-locked center frequency at substantially zero;

an envelope detector generating an envelope signal corresponding to the envelope of said broadcast signal; and

conversion means coupled to said synchronous detector and said envelope detector for converting said detected C-QUAM signal to a QUAM signal.

3. The receiver of claim 2 wherein said concurrent means is comprised of a finite impulse response filter.

4. The receiver of claim 3 wherein said weights concurrently provide an anti-aliasing filter function.

5. The receiver of claim 2 wherein f_d1 is about equal to f_s /4 and f_d2 is nearly equal to zero.

6. The receiver of claim 2 further comprising:

matrix means coupled to said envelope detector and said conversion means for generating said stereo signals from said envelope signal and said QUAM signal.

7. The receiver of claim 6 further comprising digital-to-analog converter means coupled to said matrix means for generating analog stereo signals.

8. The receiver of claim 2 wherein said conversion means comprises:

implicit calculating means coupled to said envelope detector and said synchronous detector for generating a correction signal using implicit feedback; and

multiplier means coupled to said synchronous detector and said implicit calculating means for multiplying said synchronous-detector Q signal and said correction signal to generate a QUAM signal corresponding to the difference of said stereo signals.

9. The receiver of claim 2 wherein said conversion means comprises:

comparing means coupled to said envelope detector and said synchronous detector for generating a correction signal based on the error between said envelope signal and said synchronous-detector I signal;

multiplier means coupled to said synchronous detector and said comparing means for multiplying said synchronous-detector Q signal and said correction signal to generate a QUAM signal corresponding to the difference of said stereo signals.

10. The receiver of claim 2 wherein said conversion means comprises:

divider means coupled to said synchronous detector for dividing said synchronous-detector Q signal by said synchronous-detector I signal to generate a divider signal; and

multiplier means coupled to said divider means and said envelope detector for multiplying said divider signal and said envelope signal to generate a QUAM signal corresponding to the difference of said stereo signals.

11. The receiver of claim 2 further comprising stereo detect means coupled to said conversion means for detecting the presence of a stereo pilot signal in said QUAM signal.

12. The receiver of claim 11 further comprising blend control means coupled to said stereo detect means for selecting stereo or monophonic reception in accordance with the detection of said stereo pilot signal by said stereo detect means.

13. The receiver of claim 2 wherein said synchronous detector comprises:

loop filter means coupled to said conversion means for filtering said QUAM signal;

oscillator means coupled to said loop filter means for producing sine and cosine signals locked to the frequency and phase of said QUAM signal; and

complex mixer means coupled to said oscillator means and said concurrent means for mixing said complex IF signal with said sine and cosine signals to produce said detected C-QUAM signal.

14. A method for digitally processing an AM stereo signal received as an analog broadcast signal using quadrature encoding of stereo information, said method comprising the steps of:

receiving said analog broadcast signal;

generating an analog intermediate frequency (IF) signal having a center frequency f_a ;

converting said analog IF signal to a first digital IF signal at a fixed sampling rate f_s, said first digital IF signal being contained in the frequency range between zero and f_s /2, said first digital IF signal having a center frequency f_d1 ;

filtering said first digital IF signal in a digital filter to obtain a complex IF signal within the frequency range from -f_s /8 to +f_s /8 and having a center frequency f_d2, said complex IF signal having an in-phase component I and a quadrature-phase component Q each being formed from weighted alternate samples of said first digital IF signal according to a set of predetermined weights, said weights corresponding to a complex nonsynchronous mixing signal having a frequency equal to f_s /4 and concurrently corresponding to a reduction in sampling rate by a whole multiple of 4;

synchronously demodulating said complex IF signal to obtain a demodulated baseband signal;

detecting an envelope of-said broadcast signal to generate an envelope signal;

modifying said demodulated baseband signal in accordance with said envelope signal; and

recovering said stereo information from said modified demodulated baseband signal.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein f_d1 is about equal to f_s /4 and f_d2 is about equal to zero.