Signal generator and OFDM modulator synchronized to external device

• US 6,762,991 B1
• Filed: 03/15/2000
• Issued: 07/13/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 03/19/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kaisha Kabushiki
• Original Assignee: Kaisha Kabushiki
• Inventors: Hirakura, Takao, Isobe, Seiji
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Chau
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Andy
• Application Number:
  US09/526,472
• Time in Patent Office: 1,581 Days
• Field of Search: 370/208, 370/203, 370/503, 370/516, 370/518, 375/295, 375/344, 375/354, 375/359, 375/327, 375/296, 375/307, 455/20, 455/24, 455/63.1, 455/86, 455/114.2, 455/118, 455/131, 455/147, 455/313
• US Class Current: 370/203
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2627 Modulators

Abstract

An OFDM modulator includes an OFDM modulator section for conducting OFDM modulation on a signal, based upon an OFDM clock F_CLK, and outputting an OFDM signal, an adder for adding the OFDM clock F_CLK to a local signal F_PLO for frequency conversion, and a frequency converter for conducting frequency conversion on the OFDM signal supplied from the OFDM modulator section, based upon an output signal of the adder. The OFDM modulator thus outputs an IF signal having a frequency equivalent to that of the local signal. As a result, the floating frequency component of the OFDM clock on the OFDM modulator section side is canceled by the floating frequency component of the OFDM clock on the frequency adder side. There is thus obtained an IF signal which can be synchronized to a frequency (for example, 10 MHz) of an external device and which has the same frequency as that of the local signal F_PLO.

Claims

1. A signal generating apparatus comprising:

output means for conducting predetermined processing on a given signal, based upon a clock signal having a first frequency including a floating frequency component supplied from a first oscillator, and outputting a first signal having the first frequency;

adder means for adding a second signal having a second frequency including no floating frequency component, supplied from a second oscillator and the clock signal supplied from the first oscillator, and outputting a third signal having a frequency equivalent to sum of the first frequency and the second frequency; and

frequency converter means for receiving the first signal outputted from the output means and the third signal outputted from the adder means, conducting frequency conversion based upon the first signal and the third signal, and thereby outputting an output signal having the second frequency including no floating frequency component.

2. A signal generating apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the signal of the first frequency supplied by a first oscillator includes a floating frequency component caused by a frequency which is indivisible by an integer, and consequently the signal of the first frequency cannot be synchronized to a signal having a reference frequency which is divisible by an integer and which does not include a floating frequency component.

3. An OFDM modulating apparatus comprising:

output means for conducting OFDM modulation processing on a given signal, based upon an OFDM clock signal having a first frequency including a floating frequency component supplied from an OFDM oscillator, and outputting an OFDM signal having the first frequency;

adder means for adding a local signal having a second frequency including no floating frequency component, supplied from a local oscillator and the OFDM clock signal supplied from the OFDM clock oscillator, and outputting a third signal having a frequency equivalent to sum of the first frequency and the second frequency; and

frequency converter means for receiving the OFDM signal outputted from the output means and the third signal outputted from the adder means, conducting frequency conversion based upon the OFDM signal and the third signal, and thereby outputting an IF signal having the second frequency including no floating frequency component.

4. An OFDM modulating apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the OFDM signal has a frequency of 512/63=8.126984 . . . MHz.