Time division duplex transceiver

• US 5,446,770 A
• Filed: 03/28/1994
• Issued: 08/29/1995
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Matsushita Electric Industrial Company Limited (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Takai, Hitoshi, Urabe, Yoshio, Yamasaki, Hidetoshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): VO, DON NGUYEN
• Application Number:
  US08/218,664
• Time in Patent Office: 519 Days
• Field of Search: 375/7, 375/8, 375/285, 370/29, 370/32, 455/75, 455/76, 455/78, 455/84, 455/86
• US Class Current: 375/219
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/30 for homodyne or synchrodyne receivers demodulator circuits H03D1/22
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/56 with provision for simultaneous communication in two directions

Abstract

A transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal having the same frequency according to a time-division includes a local oscillator for generating a local signal having a first frequency, a frequency converter for converting the local signal into a carrier signal, a modulator for modulating the carrier signal by using a transmitting baseband signal so as to generate a transmitting signal having a second frequency and a receiving section for receiving a receiving signal having the second frequency which is the same as that of the transmitting signal. The frequency convertor includes a fractional frequency convertor for converting a signal having an input frequency into a signal having an output frequency. Wherein, the output frequency is n₂ /n₁ times the input frequency, where n₁ is an integer greater than 2, n₂ is an integer greater than 1, n₁ and n₂ being relatively prime, whereby the second frequency of the transmitting signal is not any integral multiple of the first frequency of the local signal. In receiving operation of the transceiver, the operation of the frequency convertor is terminated.

Claims

1. A transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal having the same frequency according to a time division, the transceiver comprising:

a local oscillating means for generating a local signal having a first frequency;

a frequency converting means for converting the local signal into a carrier signal;

a modulating means for modulating the carrier signal by using a transmitting baseband signal so as to generate a transmitting signal having a second frequency; and

a receiving means for receiving, during a receiving operation, a receiving signal having the second frequency which is the same as that of the transmitting signal,

wherein the frequency converting means includes a fractional frequency converting means for converting a signal having an input frequency into a signal having an output frequency, the output frequency being n₂ /n₁ times the input frequency, where n₁ is an integer greater than 2, n₂ is an integer greater than 1, n₁ and n₂ being relatively prime, whereby the second frequency of the transmitting signal is not any integral multiple of the first frequency of the local signal, and

further comprising control means for selectively terminating operation of the frequency converting means, wherein, in the receiving operation of the transceiver, operation of the frequency converting means is terminated.

2. A transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the fractional frequency converting means includes at least one dividing means and at least one multiplying means which are connected in series.

3. A transceiver according to claim 2, wherein the termination of the operation of the frequency converting means is accomplished by the control means by terminating operation of the dividing means in the receiving operation of the transceiver.

4. A transceiver according to claim 3, wherein the termination of the operation of the dividing means is accomplished by the control means by interrupting a signal input to the dividing means in the receiving operation of the transceiver.

5. A transceiver according to claim 1, wherein the local signal is supplied to the receiving means, and the receiving means performs at least one of frequency conversion and detection of the receiving signal by using the local signal.

6. A transceiver for transmitting and receiving a signal having the same frequency according to a time division, the transceiver comprising:

a first local oscillating means for generating a first local signal having a first frequency;

a first frequency converting means for converting the first local signal into a carrier signal;

a modulating means for modulating the carrier signal by using a transmitting baseband signal so as to generate a modulated signal having a second frequency;

a second local oscillating means for generating a second local signal having a third frequency;

a second frequency converting means for converting the modulated signal into a transmitting signal having a fourth frequency in accordance with the third frequency of the second local signal;

a third frequency converting means for converting a receiving signal having the fourth frequency which is the same as that of the transmitting signal into an intermediate-frequency signal in accordance with the third frequency of the second local signal; and

a receiving means for receiving, during a receiving operation, the intermediate-frequency signal,

wherein the first frequency converting means includes a fractional frequency converting means for converting a signal having an input frequency into a signal having an output frequency, the output frequency being n₂ /n₁ times the input frequency, where n₁ is an integer greater than 2, n₂ is an integer greater than 1, n₁ and n₂ being relatively prime, whereby the second frequency of the modulated signal is not any integral multiple of the first frequency of the first local signal, and

further comprising control means for selectively terminating operation of the frequency converting means, wherein, in the receiving operation of the transceiver, operation of the first frequency converting means is terminated.

7. A transceiver according to claim 6, wherein the fractional frequency converting means includes at least one dividing means and at least one multiplying means which are connected in series.

8. A transceiver according to claim 7, wherein the termination of the operation of the first frequency converting means is accomplished by the control means by terminating the operation of the dividing means in the receiving operation of the transceiver.

9. A transceiver according to claim 8, wherein the termination of the operation of the dividing means is accomplished by the control means by interrupting a signal input to the dividing means in the receiving operation of the transceiver.

10. A transceiver according to claim 6, wherein the first local signal is supplied to the receiving means, and the receiving means performs at least one of frequency conversion and detection of the intermediate-frequency signal by using the first local signal.