Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for signal correction using adaptive phase re-alignment
First Claim
1. A method of adaptively re-aligning a modulated output signal having a corresponding phase input signal, where said modulated output signal has an error component, said method comprising the steps of:
- combining said phase input signal with at least a portion of a carrier wave to generate a reference phase signal;
generating a sample phase signal from said modulated output signal;
comparing said reference phase signal with said sample phase signal; and
adaptively re-aligning any difference between said reference phase signal and said sample phase signal based upon said comparison to substantially reduce said error component.
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Abstract
The invention is directed to a system for adaptively re-aligning a modulated output signal having an error component by generating a reference phase signal using a phase input signal; generating a sample phase signal from the output signal; comparing the reference and sample signals; and adaptively re-aligning any difference between the reference and sample signals to substantially reduce the error component. The invention may incorporate a sampling circuit for sampling the output signal to generate the sample signal; a digital phase locked loop for combining the phase input signal with a carrier wave to generate the reference signal and comparing them to generate a phase error signal; a reference filter for generating reference phase error information; a combining circuit for combining the phase error signal with the reference phase error information to generate a correction signal; and an adaptive gain control circuit for adaptively controlling gain in the correction signal to generate a final estimated error used to re-align the output signal with the phase input signal.
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39 Claims
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1. A method of adaptively re-aligning a modulated output signal having a corresponding phase input signal, where said modulated output signal has an error component, said method comprising the steps of:
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combining said phase input signal with at least a portion of a carrier wave to generate a reference phase signal; generating a sample phase signal from said modulated output signal; comparing said reference phase signal with said sample phase signal; and adaptively re-aligning any difference between said reference phase signal and said sample phase signal based upon said comparison to substantially reduce said error component. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. An apparatus for adaptively re-aligning a modulated output signal having a corresponding phase input signal, where said modulated output signal has an error component, said apparatus comprising:
an adaptive re-alignment processor for generating a reference phase signal by combining said phase input signal with at least a portion of a carrier wave, generating a sample phase signal from said modulated output signal, comparing said reference phase signal with said sample phase signal; and
adaptively re-aligning any difference between said reference phase signal and said sample phase signal based upon said comparison to substantially reduce said error component.- View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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25. An apparatus as in 24, wherein both rising and falling edges of said modulated output signal may be used to generate two sets of I and Q signals offset by half cycle, which increases the resolution of said sample phase signal to eight phase sectors.
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32. An apparatus for adaptively re-aligning a phase portion of an output signal from a phase and/or frequency modulator, wherein a phase input signal is provided to a phase modulator for modulating a carrier wave to produce said output signal, said apparatus comprising:
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a quantizing circuit for quantizing and sampling said output signal to generate a sample phase signal; a digital phase locked loop for combining said phase input signal with said carrier wave to generate a reference phase signal, and for comparing said sample phase signal with said reference phase signal to generate a phase error signal; the said phase error signal will be filtered to generate a digital phase locked loop feedback error signal; and a combining circuit for combining said phase input signal with said feedback error signal to generate a corrected reference phase signal. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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