Code division multiple access transmitter and receiver

• US 5,748,623 A
• Filed: 06/05/1995
• Issued: 05/05/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 09/03/1993
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: NTT Docomo Incorporated (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Original Assignee: NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
• Inventors: Sawahashi, Mamoru, Adachi, Fumiyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Olms, Douglas W.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US08/428,203
• Time in Patent Office: 1,065 Days
• Field of Search: 370/18, 370/20, 370/69.1, 370/120, 370/121, 370/122, 370/70, 370/204, 370/206, 370/342, 370/481, 370/482, 370/483, 370/484, 370/441, 455/192.2, 375/205, 375/206, 375/208, 375/344, 375/261
• US Class Current: 370/342
• CPC Class Codes: H04J 13/00 Code division multiplex systems for frequency hopping H04B1/713

Abstract

A code division multiple access transmitter and receiver that makes it possible to reduce its size by designating a spreading code and a carrier frequency in a baseband. It includes a primary modulator for performing primary modulation by transmission information, thereby producing a primary modulated I signal and a primary modulated Q signal, a spreading code generator for generating a spreading code with a frequency higher than a rate of the transmission information, a secondary modulator for spread-modulating the primary modulated I signal and Q signal by using the spreading code, thereby outputting spread I-channel data and spread Q-channel data, a frequency offset circuit for offsetting the center frequency of the spread I-channel data and Q-channel data by a designated offset frequency, thereby outputting frequency offset data, and a transmitting circuit for converting the frequency offset data into a transmitted signal.

Claims

1. A code division multiple access transmitter comprising:

a primary modulator for carrying out primary modulation of transmission information, thereby generating a primary modulated I (In-phase) signal and a primary modulated Q (Quadrature) signal;

spreading code generating means for generating a spreading code which corresponds to a channel, and has a frequency higher than a rate of said transmission information;

a secondary modulator for performing spread modulation of said primary modulated I signal and said primary modulated Q signal using said spreading code, thereby outputting spread I-channel data and spread Q-channel data;

a frequency offset circuit for offsetting a center frequency of said spread I-channel data and of said spread Q channel data by a designated offset frequency, thereby outputting frequency offset data; and

a transmitting circuit for converting said frequency offset data into a transmitted signal, wherein said frequency offset circuit comprises;

a first signal generator for generating a cosine wave of a frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a second signal generator for generating a sine wave of the frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a first multiplier for multiplying said spread I-channel data by said cosine wave;

a second multiplier for multiplying said spread Q-channel data by said sine wave;

a first adder for summing an output of said first multiplier and an output of said second multiplier.

4. The code division multiple access transmitter as claimed in claim 1, wherein said frequency offset circuit comprises:

a first memory circuit for storing a product of said spread I-channel data and a cosine wave of a frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a second memory circuit for storing a product of said spread Q-channel data and a sine wave of the frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a third memory circuit for storing a product of said spread I-channel data and said sine wave;

a fourth memory circuit for storing a product of said spread Q-channel data and said cosine wave;

a first adder for adding data read from said first memory circuit and data read from said second memory circuit; and

a second adder for adding data read from said third memory circuit and data read from said fourth memory circuit;

thereby carrying out a complex multiplication of said spread I-channel data and said Q-channel data with said cosine wave and said sine wave, and outputting frequency offset I-channel data and frequency offset Q-channel data.

5. The code division multiple access transmitter as claimed in claim 1, wherein said frequency offset circuit comprises:

a first memory circuit for storing a sum of a product of said spread I-channel data and a cosine wave of a frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency, and a product of said spread Q-channel data and a sine wave of the frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency; and

a second memory circuit for storing a sum of a product of said spread I-channel data and said sine wave, and a product of said spread Q-channel data and said cosine wave,

thereby carrying out a complex multiplication of said spread I-channel data and said Q-channel data with said cosine wave and said sine wave, and outputting frequency offset I-channel data and frequency offset Q-channel data.

2. A code division multiple access transmitter comprising:

a primary modulator for carrying out primary modulation of transmission information, thereby generating a primary modulated I (In-phase) signal and a primary modulated Q (Quadrature) signal;

spreading code generating means for generating a spreading code which corresponds to a channel, and has a frequency higher than a rate of said transmission information;

a secondary modulator for performing spread modulation of said primary modulated I signal and said primary modulated Q signal using said spreading code, thereby outputting spread I-channel data and spread Q-channel data;

a frequency offset circuit for offsetting a center frequency of said spread I-channel data and of said spread Q channel data by a designated offset frequency, thereby outputting frequency offset data; and

a transmitting circuit for converting said frequency offset data into a transmitted signal, wherein said frequency offset circuit comprises;

a first signal generator for generating a cosine wave of a frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a second signal generator for generating a sine wave of the frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a first multiplier for multiplying said spread I-channel data by said cosine wave;

a second multiplier for multiplying said spread Q-channel data by said sine wave;

a first adder for summing an output of said first multiplier and an output of said second multiplier, wherein said transmitting circuit comprises a D/A converter for converting said frequency offset data into an analog signal, and a frequency converter for converting said analog signal into the transmitted signal.

3. A code division multiple access transmitter comprising:

a primary modulator for carrying out primary modulation of transmission information, thereby generating a primary modulated I (In-phase) signal and a primary modulated Q (Quadrature) signal;

spreading code generating means for generating a spreading code which corresponds to a channel, and has a frequency higher than a rate of said transmission information;

a secondary modulator for performing spread modulation of said primary modulated I signal and said primary modulated Q signal using said spreading code, thereby outputting spread I-channel data and spread Q-channel data;

a frequency offset circuit for offsetting a center frequency of said spread I-channel data and of said spread Q channel data by a designated offset frequency, thereby outputting frequency offset data; and

a transmitting circuit for converting said frequency offset data into a transmitted signal, wherein said frequency offset circuit comprises;

a first signal generator for generating a cosine wave of a frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a second signal generator for generating a sine wave of the frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a first multiplier for multiplying said spread I-channel data by said cosine wave;

a second multiplier for multiplying said spread Q-channel data by said sine wave;

a third multiplier for multiplying said spread T-channel data by said sine wave;

a fourth multiplier for multiplying said spread Q-channel signal by said cosine wave;

a first adder for adding an output of said first multiplier and an output of said second multiplier; and

a second adder for adding an output of said third multiplier and an output of said fourth multiplier,

thereby carrying out a complex multiplication of said spread I-channel data and said Q-channel data with said cosine wave and said sine wave, and outputting frequency offset I-channel data and frequency offset Q-channel data.

6. A code division multiple access transmitter comprising:

a primary modulator for carrying out primary modulation of transmission information, thereby generating a primary modulated I (In-phase) signal and a primary modulated Q (Quadrature) signal;

spreading code generating means for generating a spreading code which corresponds to a channel, and has a frequency higher than a rate of said transmission information;

a secondary modulator for performing spread modulation of said primary modulated I signal and said primary modulated Q signal using said spreading code, thereby outputting spread I-channel data and spread Q-channel data;

a frequency offset circuit for offsetting a center frequency of said spread I-channel data and of said spread Q channel data by a designated offset frequency, thereby outputting frequency offset data; and

a transmitting circuit for converting said frequency offset data into a transmitted signal, wherein said frequency offset circuit comprises;

a first signal generator for generating a cosine wave of a frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a second signal generator for generating a sine wave of the frequency corresponding to said designated offset frequency;

a first multiplier for multiplying said spread I-channel data by said cosine wave;

a second multiplier for multiplying said spread Q-channel data by said sine wave;

a third multiplier for multiplying said spread T-channel data by said sine wave;

a fourth multiplier for multiplying said spread Q-channel signal by said cosine wave;

a first adder for adding an output of said first multiplier and an output of said second multiplier; and

a second adder for adding an output of said third multiplier and an output of said fourth multiplier,

thereby carrying out a complex multiplication of said spread I-channel data and said Q-channel data with said cosine wave and said sine wave, and outputting frequency offset I-channel data and frequency offset Q-channel data, wherein said transmitter circuit comprises D/A converters for converting said frequency offset I-channel data and said frequency offset Q-channel data into analog signals, a quadrature modulator for quadrature-modulating a carrier by an analog I-channel signal and an analog Q-channel signal outputted from said D/A converters, and a frequency converter for converting an output signal of said quadrature modulator into the transmitted signal.

7. A code division multiple access receiver comprising:

a first frequency converter for frequency-converting a received signal into an IF (Intermediate Frequency) signal;

a quadrature detector for converting said IF signal into an I-channel baseband signal and a Q-channel baseband signal;

A/D converters for converting said I-channel baseband signal and said Q-channel baseband signal into digital signals;

a second frequency converter for converting an I-channel digital signal and a Q-channel digital signal outputted from said A/D converters into signals with a zero center frequency using a local signal of a designated offset frequency, a center frequency of said I-channel digital signal and of said Q-channel digital signal outputted from said A/D converters being offset;

a correlation detector for correlation-detecting output signals of said second frequency converter; and

a demodulator for demodulating output signals of said correlation detector.

8. The code division multiple access receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein said second frequency converter comprises:

a first signal generator for generating a cosine wave of said designated offset frequency;

a second signal generator for generating a sine wave of said designated offset frequency;

a first multiplier for multiplying said cosine wave with said I-channel baseband signal converted into the digital signal; and

a second multiplier for multiplying said sine wave with said Q-channel baseband signal converted into the digital signal.

9. The code division multiple access receiver as claimed in claim 8, wherein said second frequency converter comprises lowpass filters for low-passing outputs of said first multiplier and said second multiplier.

10. The code division multiple access receiver as claimed in claim 8, wherein said second frequency converter comprises an automatic frequency control circuit connected to outputs of said first multiplier and said second multiplier.

11. The code division multiple access receiver as claimed in claim 7, wherein said second frequency converter comprises:

a low-suppress filter for suppressing low-frequency components of outputs of said quadrature detector;

sampling means for sampling outputs of said low-suppress filter at a clock frequency corresponding to a designated offset frequency; and

a lowpass filter that low-passes outputs of said sampling means.

12. A code division multiple access system including a code division multiple access transmitter and a code division multiple access receiver,

said code division multiple access transmitter comprising:

a primary modulator for carrying out primary modulation of transmission information, thereby generating a primary modulated I (In-phase) signal and a primary modulated Q (Quadrature) signal;

spreading code generating means for generating a spreading code which corresponds to a channel, and has a frequency higher than a rate of said transmission information;

a secondary-modulator for performing spread modulation of said primary modulated I signal and said primary modulated Q signal using said spreading code, thereby outputting spread I-channel data and spread Q-channel data;

a frequency offset circuit for offsetting a center frequency of said spread I-channel data and of said spread Q channel data by a designated offset frequency, thereby outputting frequency offset data; and

a transmitting circuit for converting said frequency offset data into a transmitted signal,

said code division multiple access receiver comprising;

a first frequency converter for frequency-converting a received signal into an IF (Intermediate Frequency) signal;

a quadrature detector for converting said IF signal into an I-channel baseband signal and a Q-channel baseband signal;

A/D converters for converting said I-channel baseband signal and said Q-channel baseband signal into digital signals;

a second frequency converter for converting an I-channel digital signal and a Q-channel digital signal outputted from said A/D converters into signals with a zero center frequency using a local signal of a designated offset frequency, a center frequency of said I-channel digital signal and of said Q-channel digital signal outputted from said A/D converters being offset;

a correlation detector for correlation-detecting output signals of said second frequency converter; and

a demodulator for demodulating output signals of said correlation detector.