Fixed wireless loop system having dual direct synthesizer

• US 5,914,961 A
• Filed: 12/10/1997
• Issued: 06/22/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/1997
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation (L3Harris Technologies, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: L-3 Communications Corporation (L3Harris Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: Griffin, Dan M, Harris, Johnny M
• Primary Examiner(s): TON, DANG T
• Application Number:
  US08/987,810
• Time in Patent Office: 559 Days
• Field of Search: 370/503, 370/310, 370/314, 370/320, 370/321, 370/335, 370/336, 370/337, 370/338, 370/341, 370/342, 370/343, 370/344, 370/345, 370/346, 370/347, 370/350, 370/498, 370/505 , 370/516, 370/517, 370/518, 370/520, 370/442, 370/441, 455/38.1, 455/524, 375/200, 375/208, 375/226, 375/354, 375/356, 375/362, 375/367, 375/371, 375/373, 375/375, 375/376
• US Class Current: 370/503
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/7073 Synchronisation aspects

Abstract

Disclosed is apparatus including circuitry for providing synchronizing clocks to a transmitter and a receiver of a subscriber unit (SU) that communicates with a radio base unit (RBU) in a synchronous CDMA communication system. The apparatus includes an accumulator for generating a digital signal having a changing magnitude. The accumulator is initialized to a value of a phase command received from the RBU. The apparatus further includes a first circuit having an input coupled to an output of the accumulator for converting a content of the accumulator to a synchronized receiver clock signal, wherein the accumulator content is periodically adjusted to maintain the receiver clock signal in synchronism with a serial bit stream received from the RBU. In accordance with this invention the apparatus further includes a summer circuit having an input coupled to the output of the accumulator for combining the content of the accumulator, representing the commanded receiver side phase difference from RBU timing, with a value of a transmitter timing offset commanded by the RBU. The summer circuit provides a summation signal to a second circuit that converts the summation signal to a synchronized transmitter clock signal. In accordance with this invention problems created by the use of two independent DDSs are avoided by effectively slaving the transmit side DDS to the receive side DDS, thus insuring that the transmit side phase is accurately aligned with the SU phase commanded by the RBU.

Claims

1. Apparatus for providing synchronizing clocks to a transmitter and receiver of a remote unit that communicates with a master unit, comprising:

an accumulator for generating a digital signal having a changing magnitude, said accumulator being initialized to a value of a phase difference between master unit timing and remote unit timing;

a first circuit having an input coupled to an output of said accumulator for converting a content of said accumulator to a synchronized receiver clock signal;

a summer circuit having an input coupled to said output of said accumulator for combining said content of said accumulator with a value of a commanded timing offset from said phase difference to provide a summation signal; and

a second circuit having an input coupled to an output of said summer circuit for converting said summation signal to a synchronized transmitter clock signal.

2. Apparatus as in claim 1, wherein said first circuit is comprised of a sine look-up table providing an approximation of a sine wave having a phase defined by a phase command received from said master unit, and circuitry for converting said approximation of a sine wave to a digital clock signal.

3. Apparatus for providing synchronizing clocks to a transmitter and receiver of a subscriber unit (SU) that communicates with a radio base unit (RBU) in a synchronous CDMA communication system, comprising:

an accumulator for generating a digital signal having a changing magnitude, said accumulator being initialized to a value of a phase command received from said RBU;

a first circuit having an input coupled to an output of said accumulator for converting a content of said accumulator to a synchronized receiver clock signal, said accumulator content being periodically adjusted to maintain said receiver clock signal in synchronism with a serial bit stream received from said RBU;

a summer circuit having an input coupled to said output of said accumulator for combining said content of said accumulator with a value of a transmitter timing offset commanded by said RBU to provide a summation signal; and

a second circuit having an input coupled to an output of said summer circuit for converting said summation signal to a synchronized transmitter clock signal.

4. Apparatus as in claim 3, wherein said first circuit is comprised of a sine look-up table providing an approximation of a sine wave having a phase defined by said phase command received from said RBU, and circuitry for converting said approximation of a sine wave to said receiver clock signal.

5. A method for generating synchronizing clocks to a transmitter and receiver of a subscriber unit (SU) that communicates with a radio base unit (RBU) in a synchronous CDMA communication system, comprising steps of:

operating a receive side digital frequency synthesizer to generate digital values representative of a receive clock signal having a phase that is specified by a command received from the RBU;

periodically adjusting the generated digital values to maintain receiver synchronization with a serial bit stream received from the RBU;

converting the generated digital values to receive clock pulses;

slaving a transmit side digital frequency synthesizer to the digital values generated by the receive side digital frequency synthesizer and adding a phase offset value to the digital values to produce a summation signal, the phase offset value being received from the RBU; and

converting the summation signal to transmit clock pulses.