Dual-mode radiotelephone apparatus for digital or analog modulation

• US 6,546,044 B1
• Filed: 10/11/1996
• Issued: 04/08/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/11/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Original Assignee: Ericsson, Inc. (Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson)
• Inventors: Dent, Paul W.
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghebretinsae, Temesghen
• Application Number:
  US08/730,670
• Time in Patent Office: 2,370 Days
• Field of Search: 375/216, 375/298, 375/281, 332/103, 332/119
• US Class Current: 375/216
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/005 adapting radio receivers, transmitters andtransceivers for operation on two or more bands, i.e. frequency ranges
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0057 using diplexing or multiplexing filters for selecting the desired band
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/406 with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes

Abstract

A dual-mode radiotelephone capable of operation in analog or digital modes. According to exemplary embodiments, a digital signal processor receives a speech signal to be transmitted in the digital or analog mode and generates In-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) modulating signals. The I and Q signals are supplied to a quadrature modulator for generating a digitally modulated signal and are supplied to an analog modulator for generating an analog modulated signal.

Claims

1. A radio transmitter/receiver for selectively transmitting digitally modulated signals in a digital mode or analog modulated signals in an analog mode comprising:

digital signal processing means having an input for receiving an information signal, a first output for supplying an In-phase modulating signal I and a second output for supplying a Quadrature modulating signal Q;

quadrature modulation means coupled to the first and second outputs for digitally modulating a carrier frequency in the digital mode to produce a digitally modulated signal; and

analog modulation means coupled to the first and second outputs for generating an analog modulation of a carrier frequency in the analog mode to produce an analog modulated signal, wherein said In-phase modulating signal I and said Quadrature modulating signal Q bypass said quadrature modulation means in order to produce said analog modulated signal.

2. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 1, wherein the digital signal processing means includes logic circuitry for computing a sampled numerical representation of the information signal, D/A conversion means for converting the sampled numerical representation into the In-phase modulating signal I and the Quadrature modulating signal Q.

3. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 1, wherein the digitally modulated signal is at a first frequency, the analog modulated signal is at a second frequency, and the transmitter further comprises upconversion means for converting the digitally modulated signal to a third frequency and converting the analog modulated signal to a fourth frequency.

4. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 3, wherein the upconversion means includes digital and analog loop integrating filters which control digital and analog voltage controlled oscillators, respectively, to convert the digital modulated signal to the third frequency and the analog modulated signal to the fourth frequency, while suppressing noise at other frequencies.

5. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 4, wherein the digital loop integrating filter has a wider transfer function than the analog loop integrating filter.

6. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 1, wherein the transmitter operates according to the GSM standard in the digital mode, and according to the AMPS standard in the analog mode.

7. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 1, wherein the digital signal processing means generates the In-phase modulating signal I and the Quadrature modulating signal Q substantially simultaneously.

8. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 4, wherein the upconversion means further includes means for measuring and storing a loop filter integrator voltage and a corresponding frequency after each received transmission burst, and for precharging one of the loop integrating filters using a previously stored loop filter integrator voltage prior to transmission on a corresponding frequency.

9. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 1, wherein digitally modulated signals or analog modulated signals are received, and received digitally modulated signals are digitized at a first sampling rate and received analog modulated signals are digitized at a second sampling rate, and digitized analog signals is narrowed, and the second sampling rate is reduced to an output sampling rate.

10. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 9, wherein the output sampling rate is not an integral submultiple of the second sampling rate.

11. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 9, wherein there are N digital filters, each having an associated set of filter coefficients for computing one output sample for every M input samples.

12. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 11, wherein the filter coefficients are chosen such that the output samples computed by successive filters represent a filtered signal value at N successive time intervals equally spaced over each period of M input samples.

13. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 1, wherein said analog modulation means includes means for selecting or combining said first and second outputs in order to generate a frequency or amplitude modulating signal.

14. A radio transmitter/receiver for selectively transmitting a bandwidth-compressed digital speech signal or an amplitude-compressed analog speech signal comprising:

analog-to-digital conversion means having an input for receiving an analog speech signal and an output for producing a sample stream of numerical samples representative of the analog speech signal;

digital signal processing means having an input for receiving the sample stream and one or more outputs for supplying an In-phase modulating signal I and a Quadrature modulating signal Q, the digital signal processing means converting the sample stream into a bandwidth-compressed and coded digital speech signal and an I and a Q sample stream representative of a digital vector modulation of the bandwidth-compressed digital speech signal or a numerical stream on at least one of the outputs representative of an amplitude-companded version of the analog speech signal;

digital-to-analog conversion means for converting the I and Q sample streams to associated I and Q analog modulating waveforms;

quadrature modulator means coupled to the digital-to-analog conversion means for vector modulating a carrier frequency with the I and Q analog modulating waveforms for transmitting the bandwidth-compressed digital speech signal; and

analog modulation means coupled to the digital-to-analog conversion means for producing an analog modulation of a carrier frequency using at least one of the I or Q analog modulating waveforms for transmitting the amplitude-compressed analog speech signal.

15. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 14, wherein the bandwidth-compressed digital speech signal is at a first frequency, the amplitude-compressed analog speech signal is at a second frequency, and the transmitter further comprises upconversion means for converting the digital speech signal to a third frequency and converting the analog speech signal to a fourth frequency.

16. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 15, wherein the upconversion means includes digital and analog loop integrating filters which control digital and analog voltage controlled oscillators, respectively, to convert the digital speech signal to the third frequency and the analog speech signal to the fourth frequency, while suppressing noise at other frequencies.

17. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 16, wherein the digital loop integrating filter has a wider transfer function than the analog loop integrating filter.

18. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 16, wherein the upconversion means further includes means for measuring and storing a loop filter integrator voltage and a corresponding frequency after each received transmission burst, and for precharging one of the loop integrating filters using a previously stored loop filter integrator voltage prior to transmission on a corresponding frequency.

19. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 14, wherein the transmitter operates according to the GSM standard for transmitting the digital speech signal, and according to the AMPS standard for transmitting the analog speech signal.

20. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 14, wherein the digital signal processing means generates the In-phase modulating signal I and the Quadrature modulating signal Q substantially simultaneously.

21. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 14, wherein digitally modulated signals or analog modulated signals are received, and received digitally modulated signals are digitized at a first sampling rate and received analog modulated signals are digitized at a second sampling rate, and the bandwidth of digitized analog signals is narrowed, and the second sampling rate is reduced to an output sampling rate.

22. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 21, wherein the output sampling rate is not a integral submultiple of the second sampling rate.

23. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 22, wherein there are N digital filters, each having an associated set of filter coefficients for computing one output sample for every M input samples.

24. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 23, wherein the filter coefficients are chosen such that the output samples computed by successive filters represent a filtered signal value at N successive time intervals equally spaced over each period of M input samples.

25. An apparatus for alternatively modulating a carrier signal with an analog signal or a digital signal, comprising:

digital signal processing means for generating a first pair of delta-modulation bitstreams representative of either a balanced In-phase component of a digitally modulated signal or an unbalanced high-frequency component of an analog frequency modulated signal plus an In-phase balanced low-frequency component, and a second pair of delta-modulation bitstreams representative of either a balanced Quadrature component of a digitally modulated signal or a balanced Quadrature low-frequency component of an analog modulation waveform;

Quadrature modulator means, responsive to the balanced In-phase and Quadrature signals, for Quadrature-modulating the carrier signal; and

frequency modulation means responsive to the unbalanced high-frequency component for frequency modulating the carrier signal,

wherein the carrier signal is either quadrature modulated with a digital modulation signal or frequency or phase modulated with both a low-frequency and a high-frequency component of an analog modulation signal.

26. The apparatus of claim 25, wherein the digital signal processing means generates the In-phase and Quadrature signals substantially simultaneously.

27. A radio transmitter/receiver for selectively transmitting digitally modulated signals in a digital mode or analog modulated signals in an analog mode comprising:

a digital signal processor having an input for receiving an information signal, a first output for supplying an In-phase modulating signal I and a second output for supplying a Quadrature modulating signal Q;

a quadrature modulator coupled to the first and second outputs for digitally modulating a carrier frequency in the digital mode to produce a digitally modulated signal;

a selecting unit coupled to the first and second outputs for selecting said In-phase modulating signal I and said Quadrature modulating signal Q and generating a modulating waveform, or a combining unit coupled to the first and second outputs for combining said In-phase modulating signal I and said Quadrature modulating signal Q and generating a modulating waveform; and

an analog modulator for receiving said modulating waveform and producing an analog modulated signal.

28. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 27, wherein said selecting unit comprises a hardwire connection between said first and second outputs and said analog modulator.

29. The radio transmitter/receiver of claim 27, wherein said combining unit includes a voltage controlled oscillator;

and

wherein one of said In-phase modulating signal I or said Quadrature modulating signal Q is used to frequency modulate the voltage controlled oscillator while the other signal is injected into a synthesizer loop controlling the voltage controlled oscillator.

30. A method for selectively transmitting digitally modulated signals in a digital mode or analog modulated signals in an analog mode comprising the steps of:

phase receiving an information signal in a digital signal processor and generating an In-phase modulating signal I and a Quadrature modulating signal Q;

determining whether a digital mode or an analog mode has been selected;

digitally modulating, in a quadrature modulator, a carrier frequency to produce a digitally modulated signal if said digital mode has been selected;

selecting, if said analog mode has been selected, an In-phase modulating signal I or a Quadrature modulating signal Q, or combining an In-phase modulating signal I and a Quadrature modulating signal Q, to produce a modulating waveform; and

generating, in an analog modulator, an analog modulation of a carrier frequency to produce an analog modulated signal using said modulating waveform if said analog mode has been selected.

31. The method of claim 30, further comprising the step of:

upconverting said digitally modulated signal, if said digital mode has been selected, from a first frequency to a second frequency; and

upconverting said analog modulated signal, if said analog mode has been selected, from a third frequency to a fourth frequency.