Synthesizer and reception device using the same

• US 8,384,449 B2
• Filed: 02/10/2009
• Issued: 02/26/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/12/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MOSAID Technologies Inc. (f/k/a Conversant Intellectual Property Management)
• Original Assignee: Panasonic Corporation (Panasonic Holdings Corporation)
• Inventors: Namba, Akihiko, Tsukio, Yasunobu, Fukushima, Susumu
• Primary Examiner(s): HOUSTON, ADAM D
• Application Number:
  US12/866,951
• Publication Number:
  US 20100315138A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 327/147, 327/149, 327/156, 327/158
• US Class Current: 327/156
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 1/026 by using a memory for digitally storing correction values H03L1/025 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 1/027 by using frequency conversion means which is variable with temperature, e.g. mixer, frequency divider, pulse add/substract logic circuit H03L1/023, H03L1/026 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 7/197 a time difference being used for locking the loop, the counter counting between numbers which are variable in time or the frequency divider dividing by a factor variable in time, e.g. for obtaining fractional frequency division H03L7/1806 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H03L 7/1976 using a phase accumulator for controlling the counter or frequency divider

Abstract

A synthesizer of the present invention includes a synthesizer section that generates an oscillation signal based on a reference oscillation signal output from a MEMS resonator and inputs the oscillation signal to a frequency converter; and a control section that adjusts a frequency of the oscillation signal output from the synthesizer section. In frequency adjustment by the control section, when a frequency adjustment unit of the synthesizer section is defined as predetermined value F in which quality of an output signal from the frequency converter is a quality limit threshold value, frequency adjustment unit Δfcont of the synthesizer section is within predetermined value F.

Claims

1. A synthesizer comprising:

a synthesizer section for generating an oscillation signal based on a reference oscillation signal output from a reference oscillator including a micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) resonator, and inputting the oscillation signal to a frequency converter; and

a control section for adjusting a frequency of the oscillation signal output from the synthesizer section by a frequency adjustment value Δ

fcont,

wherein, when a signal quality of an output signal from the frequency converter is better than or equal to a signal quality represented by a quality limit threshold value, the control section adjusts the frequency adjustment value Δ

fcont to be less than or equal to a predetermined value F associated with the quality limit threshold value, based on a predetermined relationship between the frequency adjustment value Δ

fcont and the signal quality.

2. The synthesizer of claim 1,

wherein the quality limit threshold value is an error rate limit threshold value.

3. The synthesizer of claim 2,

wherein the error rate limit threshold value is 3×

10^−

3.

4. The synthesizer of claim 1,

wherein the synthesizer is installed in a reception device for receiving a time division signal, and

the control section makes the frequency adjustment value of the synthesizer section larger than the predetermined value F during a period of time in which the reception device does not receive a desired signal.

5. The synthesizer of claim 1,

wherein the synthesizer is installed in a reception device for receiving a signal including a guard interval signal, and

the control section makes the frequency adjustment value of the synthesizer section larger than the predetermined value F during a period of time in which the reception device receives the guard interval signal.

6. The synthesizer of claim 1,

wherein when a frequency fluctuation of the oscillation signal is out of a permissible range, the frequency adjustment value of the synthesizer section is made to be larger than the predetermined value F.

7. The synthesizer of claim 1,

further comprising a temperature detection section for detecting a temperature,

wherein the control section adjusts the frequency of the oscillation signal based on a detection result by the temperature detection section.

8. The synthesizer of claim 1,

further comprising a frequency difference detection section connected to an output side of the frequency converter,

wherein the control section adjusts the frequency of the oscillation signal based on a detection result by the frequency difference detection section.

9. The synthesizer of claim 8,

wherein the control section carries out an amount of frequency adjustment derived from the detection result by a plurality of frequency adjustments.

10. The synthesizer of claim 1,

wherein the predetermined value F is 160 Hz.

11. A reception device comprising the synthesizer of claim 1.

12. The synthesizer of claim 1,

the synthesizer outputting an oscillation signal,

wherein a correction amount of an oscillation frequency of the synthesizer is determined based on a use state of an electronic device using the synthesizer.

13. The synthesizer of claim 1, comprising:

a comparator for receiving a reference oscillation signal;

an oscillator for outputting an oscillation signal based on an output signal of the comparator; and

a frequency divider for frequency-dividing the output signal of the oscillator based on a control signal from the control section,

wherein the comparator compares an output signal from the frequency divider with an output signal from a reference oscillator, and outputs a signal indicating a comparison result to the oscillator, and

a value of a frequency division ratio of the frequency divider is determined based on the use state of the electronic device using the synthesizer.

14. The synthesizer of claim 1,

a comparator for receiving a reference oscillation signal;

an oscillator for outputting an oscillation signal based on an output signal of the comparator; and

a frequency divider for frequency-dividing the output signal of the oscillator based on a control signal from the control section,

wherein the comparator compares an output signal from the frequency divider with an output signal from the reference oscillator, and outputs a signal indicating a comparison result to the oscillator,

a value of a frequency division ratio of the frequency divider is determined based on the use state of the electronic device using the synthesizer, and

a timing is previously determined, at which the frequency division ratio of the frequency divider is changed to the value of the frequency division ratio that is determined according to the use state of the electronic device.