Transmitter device having a modulation closed loop

• US 6,898,257 B2
• Filed: 02/20/2001
• Issued: 05/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: WSOU Investments, LLC (WSOU Holdings, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Lucent Technologies, Inc. (Nokia Corporation)
• Inventors: Riemann, Volker, Fischer, Georg
• Primary Examiner(s): PHU, PHUONG M
• Application Number:
  US09/788,900
• Publication Number:
  US 20010055347A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,554 Days
• Field of Search: 375295-298, 375/303, 375/308, 375/375, 375/376, 455118-120, 455/114.3, 455/126, 332/159
• US Class Current: 375/376
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/08 Modifications of modulator to linearise modulation, e.g. by feedback, and clearly applicable to more than one type of modulator
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/0925 applying frequency modulation at the divider in the feedback loop
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/0941 applying frequency modulation at more than one point in the loop
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/0966 modulating the reference clock
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/0983 containing in the loop a mixer other than for phase detection
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/0991 including calibration means or calibration methods
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2001/0491 with frequency synthesizers, frequency converters or modulators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2017 in which the phase changes are non-linear, e.g. generalized and Gaussian minimum shift keying, tamed frequency modulation H04L27/201 takes precedence

Abstract

The invention relates, inter alia, to a transmitter device, in particular for a base transceiver station in a mobile radio system, which has a digital modulator for making available a signal containing a phase information, and a modulation closed loop having a digital phase comparator operating at baseband whose first input is connected to the output of the digital modulator. In addition, a controllable oscillator is provided for generating an RF transmission signal at a controllable transmission frequency, a device which is assigned to the controllable oscillator and has the purpose of converting the RF transmission signal into a baseband signal containing a phase information. The output of the converter device is connected to a second input of the digital phase comparator.

A GSM transmitter which has such a modulation closed loop exhibits, in terms of its out-band noise and interference characteristics, significantly improved properties in comparison with a GSM transmitter which does not include a modulation loop.

Claims

1. Transmitter device, in particular for a base transceiver station in a mobile radio system, comprising

a digital modulator for making available a baseband signal which contains a phase information and

a modulation closed loop having a digital phase comparator whose first input is connected to the output of the digital modulator,

a controllable oscillator for generating an RF transmission signal with a controllable transmission frequency, a device which is assigned to the controllable oscillator and has the purpose of converting the RF transmission signal into a baseband signal which contains a phase information,

the output of the converter device being connected to a second input of the digital phase comparator, wherein the converter device has an analog/digital converter which is connected to an input of a complex digital multiplier, a controllable digital complex oscillator being connected to the other input of the complex digital multiplier.

2. Transmitter device according to claim 1, wherein the digital phase comparator is a digital phase/frequency discriminator.

3. Transmitter device according to claim 1, wherein in the converter device the output of the complex digital multiplier is connected via a complex low-pass and decimating filter to a demodulator for making available a baseband signal which contains a phase information.

4. Transmitter device according to claim 3, wherein the digital phase/frequency discriminator has the following features:

a phase comparator device for comparing the two baseband signals which each contain a phase information,

a detector device, connected to the phase comparator device, for determining the degree of change in the phase difference values supplied by the phase comparator device, and a

switch which switches the phase/frequency discriminator into the frequency tracking mode or into the phase tracking mode as a function of the degree of change which is determined.

5. Transmitter device according to claim 4, wherein the detector device contains a device for eliminating phase jumps, a differentiating element a threshold value detector and a monoflop, a device for eliminating phase jumps being connected between the phase comparator device and the output of the phase/frequency discriminator in phase tracking mode.

6. Transmitter device according to claim 5, wherein a digital/analog converter and a loop filter are connected between the phase/frequency discriminator and the controllable oscillator.

7. Transmitter device according to one of claim 6, wherein the digital modulator is a GMSK modulator or a 8-PSK-modulator.

8. Transmitter device according to claim 7, wherein the controllable oscillator is a voltage-controlled oscillator and the controllable complex digital oscillator is a numerically controlled oscillator.

9. Transmitter device according to claim 8, wherein the digital modulator supplies a baseband signal containing a phase and amplitude information, in that the demodulator supplies a baseband signal containing a phase and amplitude information, and in that the modulation closed loop has an adjustable amplifier connected downstream of the controllable oscillator, and comparator which is connected to the adjustable amplifier for comparing amplitude information contained in the two baseband signals.

10. Modulation closed loop, in particular for a transmitter device according to claim 9, characterized by a digital phase/frequency discriminator having two inputs for applying in each case one baseband signal containing a phase information, a controllable oscillator for generating an RF output signal with controllable frequency, a device which is assigned to the controllable oscillator and has the purpose of converting the RF output signal into a baseband signal containing a phase information item, the output of the converter device being connected to one of the inputs of the digital phase/frequency discriminator, wherein the converter device has an analog/digital converter which is connected to an input of a complex digital multiplier, a controllable digital complex oscillator being connected to the other input of the complex digital multiplier.

11. Modulation closed loop according to claim 10, further characterized by an analog/digital converter, connected via a complex low-pass and decimating filter to a demodulator for generating a baseband signal containing a phase information.

12. Digital phase-frequency discriminator, in particular for use in a modulation closed loop according to claim 10, comprising

a device for comparing two baseband signals which each contain a phase information,

a detector device which is connected to the phase comparator device and has the purpose of determining the degree of change of the phase difference values supplied by the phase comparator device,

and a switch which switches, as a function of the degree of change which is determined, the phase/frequency discriminator into the frequency tracking mode or into the phase tracking mode.

13. Digital phase/frequency discriminator according to claim 11, wherein the detector device contains a device for eliminating phase jumps, connected via a differentiating element and a threshold value detector to a monoflop.

14. Digital phase/frequency discriminator according to claim 11 or 12, wherein a device for eliminating phase jumps is switched between the phase comparator device and the output of the phase/frequency discriminator in the phase tracking mode.