Digital intermediate frequency demodulator

• US 8,451,386 B2
• Filed: 06/08/2009
• Issued: 05/28/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 06/08/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc. (Himax Technologies Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Himax Media Solutions, Inc. (Himax Technologies Incorporated)
• Inventors: Tsai, Tien-Ju, Shih, Pei-Jun
• Primary Examiner(s): Goodarzi, Nasser
• Assistant Examiner(s): KAY, MARY ANNE
• Application Number:
  US12/479,912
• Publication Number:
  US 20100309385A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,450 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 348/725
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4382 Demodulation or channel decoding, e.g. QPSK demodulation analog front ends or means for connecting modulators, demodulators or transceivers to a transmission line H04L27/0002
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/455 Demodulation-circuits

Abstract

The invention discloses a digital IF demodulator for processing a digital IF signal converted from a radio frequency (RF) signal, including an NCO, a down conversion circuit, a PIF carrier recovery circuit and a video baseband demodulator. The NCO outputs a sine value and a cosine value. The down conversion circuit outputs a first zero IF signal including a first real part signal and a first imaginary part signal, according to the digital IF signal, the sine value and the cosine value. The PIF carrier recovery circuit outputs a loop error signal for the NCO and a second zero IF signal, according to the first zero IF signal and a video synchronization signal. The video baseband demodulator generates a composite video signal according to the second zero IF signal.

Claims

1. A digital intermediate frequency (IF) demodulator for processing a digital IF signal converted from a radio frequency (RF) signal, comprising:

an NCO outputting a sine value and a cosine value;

a down conversion circuit outputting a first zero IF signal comprising a first real part signal and a first imaginary part signal, according to the digital IF signal, the sine value and the cosine value;

a PIF carrier recovery circuit outputting a loop error signal for the NCO and a second zero IF signal, according to the first zero IF signal and a video synchronization signal; and

a video baseband demodulator generating a composite video signal according to the second zero IF signal.

2. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a video signal synchronizer generating the video synchronization signal for the PIF carrier recovery circuit, according to the composite video signal.

3. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 2, wherein the video signal synchronizer is a video decoder.

4. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 2, wherein the video synchronization signal is generated when the synchronization of the composite video signal is confirmed.

5. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 1, wherein the PIF carrier recovery circuit further comprises:

a correlator outputting a correlation signal according to a received phase shifted signal, wherein the phase shifted signal is generated according to the first real part signal; and

a schedule control logic circuit determining an state flag to indicate whether the phase of the digital IF signal is locked according to the correlation signal and the video synchronization signal.

6. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 5, wherein the PIF carrier recovery circuit further comprises a loop filter generating the loop error signal according to a phase error signal and a gain setting, the phase error signal is generated according to the received first zero IF signal, and the gain setting is adjusted according to the state flag of the schedule control logic circuit.

7. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 6, wherein the PIF carrier recovery circuit further comprises:

a first sign extractor acquiring the sign portion of the phase shifted signal;

a first multiplier multiplying the first imaginary part signal by the acquired sign portion to generate a multiplied signal; and

a low pass filter outputting the phase error signal by bypassing or low-pass filtering the multiplied signal according to a mode flag outputted by the schedule control logic circuit.

8. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 7, wherein the second zero IF signal comprises a second real part signal and a second imaginary part signal, and the PIF carrier recovery circuit further comprises:

a second sign extractor acquiring the sign portion of the correlation signal;

a second multiplier multiplying the first real part signal by the acquired sign portion to generate the second real part signal; and

a third multiplier multiplying the first imaginary part signal by the acquired sign portion to generate the second imaginary part signal.

9. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 5, wherein the PIF carrier recovery circuit further comprises a low pass filter shifting the phase of the first real part signal radians to generate the phase shifted signal.

10. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 1, further comprising a decimator decreasing the sampling rate of the first zero IF signal before entering into the PIF carrier recovery circuit.

11. The digital IF demodulator as claimed in claim 1, the down conversion circuit further comprising:

a first multiplier multiplying the digital IF signal by the cosine value to generate the first real part signal; and

a second multiplier multiplying the digital IF signal by the sine value to generate the first imaginary part signal.