Flexible asymmetrical digital subscriber line (ADSL) receiver, central office using same, and method therefor

• US 5,742,527 A
• Filed: 03/15/1996
• Issued: 04/21/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Johnson, Terence L., Molnar, Peter R., Rybicki, Mathew A., May, Michael R., Pendleton, Matthew A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Voeltz, Emanuel Todd
• Assistant Examiner(s): Bui, Bryan
• Application Number:
  US08/616,818
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 364/514 R, 364/705.05, 375/260, 375/219, 375/222, 375/240, 375/207, 375/295, 375/285, 375/348-349, 348/6, 348/12, 379/90, 379/93, 379/97, 379/98, 379/283, 379/386, 370/431, 370/464, 370/498, 370/503, 370/201, 370/264, 370/355, 370/362, 370/484, 370/526, 455/3.1, 455/4.2, 455/6.3
• US Class Current: 708/109
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/02 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2649 Demodulators
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/062 using different frequency bands for speech and other data
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 11/0435 Details
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13034 A/D conversion, code compression/expansion
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13107 Control equipment for a part of the connection, distributed control, co-processing
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1313 Metering, billing
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/1319 Amplifier, attenuation circuit, echo suppressor
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13199 Modem, modulation
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13209 ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13376 Information service, downloading of information, 0800/0900 services
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 2213/13396 Signaling in general, in-band signalling

Abstract

An ADSL receiver (200) receives an upstream modified ADSL signal and an ISDN signal from a remote terminal (32) on a twisted-pair copper wire (18). An ADSL transmitter (100) of the remote terminal (32) transmits the ADSL signal in a frequency range above an ISDN frequency range so that the ADSL signal does not overlap the frequency range of the ISDN signal. In one embodiment, the ADSL receiver (200) includes a band pass filter (201), an analog-to-digital converter (203), a decimator (205), a fast Fourier transform (210), and a digital signal processor (212). The decimator (205) converts the ADSL signal back to base band, thus allowing an ADSL signal source to simultaneously utilize the telephone line with an ISDN signal source, without significantly reducing ADSL throughput.

Claims

1. An ADSL receiver, comprising:

a band pass filter having an input for receiving an analog ADSL signal, and output;

an analog-to-digital converter having an input coupled to the output of the band pass filter, and an output for providing a digital signal representative of the analog ADSL signal;

an ISDN filter having an input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter, and an output; and

a down sampler having an input coupled to the output of the ISDN filter, and an output coupled to the time-to-frequency converter;

a time-to-frequency converter having an input coupled to the output of the down sampler, and an output; and

a digital signal processor having an input coupled to the output of the time-to-frequency converter, and an output for providing decoded digital data.

2. The ADSL receiver of claim 1, wherein the time-to-frequency converter is further characterized as being implemented with a Fast Fourier Transform.

3. The ADSL receiver of claim 1, wherein the ISDN filter removes signal frequencies below about 138 kHz.

4. The ADSL receiver of claim 3, wherein the down sampler is a decimator.

5. The ADSL receiver of claim 4, wherein the decimator decimates by a factor of two.

6. The ADSL receiver of claim 1, wherein the ISDN filter is further characterized as being an ISDN high pass filter.

7. The ADSL receiver of claim 1, wherein the band pass filter substantially removes signal frequencies outside of a band from about 138 kHz to 276 KHz.

8. The ADSL receiver of claim 1, wherein the analog-to-digital converter is a sigma-delta converter.

9. The ADSL receiver of claim 1, wherein the analog-to-digital converter produces a word rate of about 552 kilo words per second.

10. An ADSL receiver, comprising:

a band pass filter having an input for receiving an analog ADSL signal, and output;

an analog-to-digital converter having an input coupled to the output of the band pass filter, and an output for providing a digital signal representative of the analog ADSL signal;

a multiplier having a first input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter, a second input for receiving a mixing signal, and an output for providing a frequency folded signal;

a decimator having an input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter for receiving the frequency folded signal, and an output for providing a decimated signal;

a time-to-frequency converter having an input coupled to the output of the decimator for receiving the decimated signal, and an output for providing a frequency domain signal; and

a digital signal processor having an input coupled to the output of the time-to-frequency converter for receiving the frequency domain signal, and an output for providing decoded digital data.

11. The ADSL receiver of claim 10, wherein the decimator comprises:

a low pass filter having an input coupled to the output of the multiplier, and an output; and

a down sampler having an input coupled to the output of the low pass filter, and an output coupled to the time-to-frequency converter.

12. The ADSL receiver of claim 10, wherein the analog-to-digital converter provides the digital signal at a word rate of about 552 kilo words per second, the mixing signal is a sine wave having a frequency of about 276 kilo hertz and the sine wave is sampled at about 552 kilo samples per second.

13. A central office terminal for connection to a telephone line, comprising:

a first terminal coupled to an asymmetric digital subscriber line (ADSL) signal source having a first frequency content;

a second terminal coupled to a second signal source having a second frequency content, wherein the frequencies of the first and second frequency contents do not overlap; and

a receiver circuit coupled to said first terminal, wherein the receiver circuit receives the first and second frequency contents, substantially removes the second frequency content, and decodes the first frequency content to provide decoded digital data;

wherein said ADSL signal source and said second signal source may simultaneously utilize the telephone line.

14. The central office terminal of claim 13, wherein the receiver circuit comprises:

a band pass filter having an input for receiving an ADSL signal from the ADSL signal source, and output;

an analog-to-digital converter having an input coupled to the output of the band pass filter, and an output for providing digital data representative of the ADSL signal;

a decimator having an input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter, and an output;

a time-to-frequency converter having an input coupled to the output of the decimator, and an output; and

a digital signal processor having an input coupled to the output of the time-to-frequency converter, and an output for providing the decoded digital data.

15. The central office terminal of claim 13, wherein the receiver circuit comprises:

a band pass filter having an input for receiving the ADSL signal, and an output;

an analog-to-digital converter having an input coupled to the output of the band pass filter, and an output for providing digital data representative of the ADSL signal;

a multiplier having a first input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter, a second input for receiving a mixing signal, and an output for providing a frequency folded signal;

a decimator having an input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter for receiving the frequency folded signal, and an output for providing a decimated signal;

a time-to-frequency converter having an input coupled to the output of the decimator for receiving the decimated signal, and an output for providing a frequency domain signal; and

digital signal processor having an input coupled to the output of the time-to-frequency converter for receiving the frequency domain signal, and an output for providing the decoded digital data.

16. The central office terminal of claim 13, wherein the receiver circuit comprises:

a band pass filter having an input for receiving an ADSL signal, and output;

an analog-to-digital converter having an input coupled to the output of the band pass filter, and an output for providing a digital ADSL signal;

a high pass filter having an input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter, and an output for providing a filtered digital ADSL signal;

a time-to-frequency converter having an input coupled to the output of the high pass filter for receiving the filtered digital ADSL signal at the first frequency content at a first data rate, shifting the first frequency content to a third frequency content and down sampling the filtered digital ADSL signal to a second data rate, wherein the second data rate is slower than the first data rate, the time-to-frequency converter having an output for providing a frequency domain signal representative of the first frequency content at the second data rate; and

a digital signal processor having an input coupled to the output of the time-to-frequency converter for receiving the first frequency content, and an output for providing decoded digital data.

17. The central office terminal of claim 13, wherein the receiver circuit comprises:

a band pass filter having an input for receiving the ADSL signal, and output;

an analog-to-digital converter having an input coupled to the output of the band pass filter, and an output for providing digital data representative of the ADSL signal, wherein the analog-to-digital converter samples above the highest frequency of the ADSL signal;

a decimator having an input coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter for receiving the frequency shifted signal, and an output for providing a decimated signal;

a time-to-frequency converter having an input coupled to the output of the high pass filter, and an output for providing a frequency domain signal; and

a digital signal processor having an input coupled to the output of the time-to-frequency converter, and an output for providing decoded digital data.

18. A method for decoding an analog ADSL signal, comprising the steps of:

band pass filtering the analog ADSL signal to provide a filtered analog ADSL signal;

converting the filtered analog ADSL signal to a digital data signal representative of the analog ADSL signal;

filtering the digital data signal using an ISDN high pass filter to produce a filtered digital data signal;

down sampling the filtered digital data signal to produce a down sampled digital data signal;

converting the down sampled digital data signal to a frequency domain digital data signal; and

decoding the frequency domain digital data signal to provide decoded digital data.

19. A method for decoding an analog ADSL signal, comprising the steps of:

band pass filtering the analog ADSL signal;

converting the analog ADSL signal to a digital ADSL signal;

mixing the digital ADSL signal with a mixing signal to produce a frequency folded digital ADSL signal;

decimating the frequency folded digital ADSL signal to produce a decimated frequency folded digital ADSL signal;

converting the decimated frequency folded digital ADSL signal to a frequency domain decimated frequency folded digital ADSL signal; and

decoding the frequency domain decimated frequency folded digital ADSL signal to produce a decoded digital data.