Demodulator and method for second harmonic cancellation

• US 6,834,086 B2
• Filed: 12/21/2000
• Issued: 12/21/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/21/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: North Star Innovations Inc. (Wi-LAN Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Inventors: Main, William Eric, Coffing, Danielle L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): WILLIAMS, LAWRENCE B
• Application Number:
  US09/746,278
• Publication Number:
  US 20020080892A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,461 Days
• Field of Search: 375/316, 375/344
• US Class Current: 375/316
• CPC Class Codes: H03D 3/24 Modifications of demodulators to reject or remove amplitude variations by means of locked-in oscillator circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2332 using a non-coherent carrier

Abstract

A demodulator circuit (10) having harmonic cancelling receives an input signal (IF) and generates an oscillator signal (OSC) in an oscillator circuit (14). The oscillator signal (OSC) is locked to the same frequency and phase as the input signal (IF). A phase shift circuit (18) generates a shifted signal (OSC SHIFTED) that is in quadrature with the oscillator signal (OSC). A multiplier (22) receives the oscillator signal (OSC) and the shifted signal (OSC SHIFTED) and generates an output signal (2IF) having twice the frequency of the oscillator signal (OSC). A multiplier circuit (24) also receives the input signal (IF) and along with the oscillator signal (OSC) generates an output signal (PD). The signals generated by the multiplier (22) and the multiplier circuit (24) are summed in a summing circuit (30) that supplies an output signal (OUT).

Claims

1. A demodulator circuit;

comprising;

an oscillator having a first input coupled for receiving a signal;

a phase shift circuit having an input coupled to an output of the oscillator;

a first multiplier having a first input coupled for receiving the signal and a second input coupled to the output of the oscillator;

a second multiplier having a first input coupled to an output of the phase shift circuit and a second input coupled to the output of the oscillator; and

a summing circuit having a first input coupled to an output of the first multiplier, a second input coupled to an output of the second multiplier and an output.

2. The demodulator circuit of claim 1, wherein the phase shift circuit receives an oscillator signal from the oscillator and generates an output signal that is in quadrature to the oscillator signal.

3. The demodulator circuit of claim 1, wherein a first signal supplied at the first input and a second signal supplied at the second input of the summing circuit have the same amplitudes.

4. The demodulator circuit of claim 1, wherein the oscillator further includes a second input coupled for receiving an automatic frequency control signal.

5. A circuit, comprising:

an oscillator circuit having a first input for receiving a signal, a second input for receiving a frequency control signal;

a first multiplier having a first input coupled for receiving the signal and a second input coupled for receiving an oscillator signal from the oscillator; and

a second multiplier having a first input coupled for receiving the oscillator signal from the oscillator and a second input coupled for receiving a phase shifted oscillator signal that is in quadrature to the oscillator signal.

6. The circuit of claim 5, further comprising a summing circuit having a first input coupled to an output of the first multiplier and a second input coupled to an output of the second multiplier.

7. The circuit of claim 6, further comprising a phase shift circuit having an input coupled for receiving the oscillator signal and an output for supplying the phase shifted oscillator signal that is in quadrature to the oscillator signal.

8. A method for cancelling a second harmonic of an input signal, comprising:

generating an oscillator signal that is locked to the input signal and a phase shifted oscillator signal;

multiplying the oscillator signal and the phase shifted oscillator signal to generate a first multiplied signal;

multiplying the input signal and the oscillator signal to generate a second multiplied signal;

summing the first multiplied signal and the second multiplied signal to generate an output signal having the second harmonic cancelled.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising the step of generating the phase shifted oscillator signal that is in quadrature to the oscillator signal.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of multiplying the oscillator signal and the phase shifted oscillator signal further includes generating the first multiplied signal having a frequency that is two times a frequency of the oscillator signal.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of multiplying the input signal and the oscillator signal further includes generating the second multiplied signal having phase information.

12. The method of claim 8, wherein the step of generating an oscillator signal that is locked to the input signal further includes using an Automatic Frequency Control (AFC) signal for tuning the oscillator signal to the input signal.