Method and arrangement for digital transmission using AM transmitters

• US 7,406,131 B2
• Filed: 04/10/2002
• Issued: 07/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Original Assignee: Deutsche Telekom AG
• Inventors: Rudolph, Dietmar
• Primary Examiner(s): Ahn; Sam K
• Application Number:
  US10/343,356
• Publication Number:
  US 20030148743A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,302 Days
• Field of Search: 375/295, 375/296, 375/297, 375/298, 375/300, 375/261, 375/268, 330/96, 330/102, 330/127, 330/199, 381/4, 381/6, 381/15, 381/16, 327/50, 327/51, 327/52, 327/56, 327/58, 327/89, 327/96, 332/149, 332/150, 332/151, 332/159, 332/160, 332/162, 370/202, 370/212, 455/127.1, 455/127.2, 455/127.3, 455/122.4, 455/122.5, 455/63.1, 455/67.13, 455/91
• US Class Current: 375/295
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 20/49 for AM stereophonic broadcast systems

Abstract

A method for digital transmission using an AM transmitter includes operating an output stage of the AM transmitter in a linear mode and correcting the supply voltage of the output stage in the linear mode as a function of an instantaneous drive so as to improve efficiency. The correcting is performed by operating the modulator of the AM transmitter as a switched-mode power supply unit so as to deliver a corrected supply voltage to the output stage, and scanning an envelope of a complex modulated data signal so as to control the correcting. A time constant during the scanning of the envelope enables immediate following of a rise in the envelope. The complex modulated data signal is delayed after the scanning so as to perform the correcting during the delay and prevent an overdriving of the output stage.

Claims

1. A method for digital transmission using an amplitude modulation (AM) transmitter comprising:

operating an output stage of the AM transmitter in a linear mode;

correcting a supply voltage of the output stage in the linear mode as a function of an instantaneous drive so as to improve an efficiency, the correcting being performed by;

operating a modulator of the AM transmitter as a switched-mode power supply unit so as to deliver a corrected supply voltage to the output stage; and

scanning an envelope of a complex modulated data signal so as to control the correcting, a time constant during the scanning of the envelope enabling an immediate following of a rise in the envelope; and

delaying, after the scanning, the complex modulated data signal so as to perform the correcting during the delaying so as to prevent an overdriving of the output stage.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the overdriving is a short-duration overdriving.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the time constant during the scanning is equal for a rise and a decay of the envelope.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the modulator is at least one of a pulse duration modulator and a pulse step modulator.