Modular multiplicative data rate modem and method of operation
First Claim
1. A high speed communications transciever for communicating with an upstream transciever transmitting an analog data transmission signal using M data carrying signals within a bandwidth F through a digital subscriber line channel to said system, said transceiver comprising:
- a digital subscriber line channel interface circuit for coupling to and receiving said analog data signal from the digital subscriber line channel, said analog data signal being carried separately from a voice band signal in the digital subscriber line; and
a modular bank front end receiving circuit comprised of L separate front end circuits for sampling the analog data signal and generating L separate digital signals based on such analog data signal, each of the L digital signals being generated by a separate one of said L separate front end circuits operating on a corresponding separate portion of said analog data signal and each of said digital signals including data from a corresponding one of L separate bandwidth portions of said bandwidth F, such that said L digital signals combined contain a number N data carrying signals, where N<
=M; and
a bus interface circuit for transmitting at least the L digital signals to a host processing device; and
wherein the modular bank front end receiving circuit can be expanded by capacity of said L separate front end circuits such that said N data carrying signals can be taken from additional portions of said bandwidth F so that all of said M data carrying signals can be used for carrying data in the digital subscriber line channel.
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Abstract
A high speed modem is provided which targets the use of a selectable, desirable portion of the total available bandwidth of a channel for achieving a data rate which nevertheless far exceeds that of conventional voice-band modems. In a preferred embodiment, the invention is implemented in an Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Loop (ADSL), and the nominal data rate is achieved using an analog front end (AFE) with subband filtering which causes an upstream transceiver to use only a selected number of available sub-channels for downstream data transmission and allows slower sampling rate for the AFE. The data rate of the modem is increased in a multiplicative fashion through modular expansion of a bank of AFEs to increase the number of transmitted downstream sub-channels.
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38 Claims
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1. A high speed communications transciever for communicating with an upstream transciever transmitting an analog data transmission signal using M data carrying signals within a bandwidth F through a digital subscriber line channel to said system, said transceiver comprising:
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a digital subscriber line channel interface circuit for coupling to and receiving said analog data signal from the digital subscriber line channel, said analog data signal being carried separately from a voice band signal in the digital subscriber line; and a modular bank front end receiving circuit comprised of L separate front end circuits for sampling the analog data signal and generating L separate digital signals based on such analog data signal, each of the L digital signals being generated by a separate one of said L separate front end circuits operating on a corresponding separate portion of said analog data signal and each of said digital signals including data from a corresponding one of L separate bandwidth portions of said bandwidth F, such that said L digital signals combined contain a number N data carrying signals, where N<
=M; anda bus interface circuit for transmitting at least the L digital signals to a host processing device; and wherein the modular bank front end receiving circuit can be expanded by capacity of said L separate front end circuits such that said N data carrying signals can be taken from additional portions of said bandwidth F so that all of said M data carrying signals can be used for carrying data in the digital subscriber line channel. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A high speed communications system for receiving selected data contained in a number of modulated sub-channels N from a remote transceiver capable of transmitting a number of modulated sub-channels M through a channel to said system, said system comprising:
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a channel interface circuit for coupling to and receiving said analog data signal from the channel, said analog data signal being separate from a voice band signal carried in the channel; and an analog front end circuit for sampling the analog data signal and converting it to L separate digital signals based on sampling L separate portions of said analog data signal, the front end circuit including L separate front end circuits, and each of said L separate front end circuits having an anti-aliasing filter and an analog to digital converter, and wherein said L digital signals combined include data only from said number of sub-channels N, where N<
=M; anda bus interface circuit for transmitting the L digital signals to a host processing device so that selected data can be demodulated from the N sub-channels using a software signal processing routine executed by said host processing device; and wherein the front end receiving circuit can be expanded by modular additions so that the sampling of the analog data signal can be increased by increasing a number of said L separate front end circuits, such that the data rate and the number of sub-channels N used in the channel can also be expanded. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An interface device configured for transferring selected data between a remote data transceiver and a host processing device, the remote data transceiver being capable of transmitting an analog data signal through a channel using a bandwidth F, and the host processing device capable of processing a digital signal to extract the selected data, the interface device comprising:
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a channel interface circuit for coupling to and receiving said analog data stream transmission, said analog data stream transmission being carried separately from a voice band frequency signal in the channel; and an analog front end receiving circuit comprised of L separate front end circuits for filtering L separate frequency portions of the analog data signal with L respective sub-band filters and generating L respective digital signals with L respective A/D converters, each of said L respective digital signals being based on one of said L separate frequency portions of said analog data signal; and a bus interface circuit for transmitting at least the L digital signals to said host processing device to undergo a demodulation operation to extract the selected data from said L digital signals; and an analog front end transmitting circuit for transmitting a control signal to cause said remote transmitter to transmit using only using a combination of said L separate frequency portions; and wherein a data rate in the channel can be varied by sampling a variable portion of the bandwidth F occupied by the analog data signal, said variable portion corresponding to said combination of said L separate frequency portions.
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22. A method of processing data transmitted on a digital subscriber link comprising the steps of:
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(a) receiving an analog data signal having a frequency bandwidth F, which analog data signal contains up to M DMT modulated sub-channels; (b) splitting said analog data signal into L separate analog signals, where L is an integer >
=2;(c) generating L filtered analog signals from said L separate analog signals, said L filtered analog signals being associated with one of L different frequency portions of said frequency bandwidth F, and one of L different subsets of said M DMT modulated sub-channels; (d) converting said L filtered analog signals into L digital signals using L separate A/D converters, one for each of said L filtered analog signals, and each of which L separate A/D converters uses a data sampling rate that is at least L times less than a sampling rate required by a single A/D converter to perform an A/D conversion on an analog data signal having a frequency bandwidth F; (e) transmitting said L digital signals to a signal processor so that signal processing operations can be performed on said L digital signals to receive the data by demodulating said up to M DMT modulated sub-channels. - View Dependent Claims (23, 24, 25, 26)
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27. A front end circuit for use with an ADSL transceiver, which transceiver processes up to M DMT based subchannels transmitted by a remote transceiver using an analog data signal, the front end circuit comprising:
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(a) a bandpass filter for generating a filtered analog data signal from the analog data signal, said bandpass filter being configurable such that all or a portion of said analog data signal can be passed through said filter; (b) an analog to digital converter for converting said filtered analog data signal to a digital signal which digital signal contains modulated data for up to a number N sub-channels taken from the M sub-channels, where N is configured based on signal processing capabilities of the transceiver to have a value <
=M/k, and where k is an integer >
=1;wherein said analog front end circuit can be configured by the ADSL transceiver to process an analog data signal carrying all of said M sub-channels and/or an analog data signal carrying a reduced number of said M sub-channels consisting of said N sub-channels. - View Dependent Claims (28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A front end circuit for use with a scalable rate T1.413 compatible transceiver, which transceiver receives an analog data signal containing a received number of sub-channels consisting of a subset (N) and/or all of number (M) of DMT subchannels transmitted by a remote transceiver, and which analog data signal has a transmitted frequency range which varies based on a number of sub-channels transmitted by the remote transceiver, the front end circuit comprising:
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(a) a bandpass filter for generating a filtered analog data signal from the analog data signal said bandpass filter being configurable to use a bandpass frequency range corresponding to the transmitted frequency range; and (b) an analog to digital converter for converting said filtered analog data signal to a digital signal, which digital signal contains modulated data for the received number of sub-channels, such that either the subset (N) and/or all (M) the sub-channels are made available for demodulation by the scalable rate transceiver; wherein said analog front end circuit can be configured by the T1.413 compatible transceiver to process a variable number of sub-channels ranging from N to M. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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