Apparatuses and methods for rate conversion and fractional delay calculation using a coefficient look up table

• US 8,624,760 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2012
• Issued: 01/07/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2011
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc. (Qorvo, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: RF Micro Devices Incorporated (Qorvo, Inc.)
• Inventors: Ngo, Christopher Truong, Khlat, Nadim
• Primary Examiner(s): LAUTURE, JOSEPH J
• Application Number:
  US13/423,649
• Publication Number:
  US 20120200435A1
• Time in Patent Office: 659 Days
• Field of Search: 341/61, 341/122, 341/123, 375/344, 375/216, 375/240, 375/295, 375/355, 375/222, 375/376, 375/350, 700/94, 700/211, 370/545
• US Class Current: 341/61
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/3073 Time
• CPC Class Codes: H03M 7/3082 Vector coding for television signals, see H04N19/94
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/13 of power amplifiers, e.g. gain or non-linearity

Abstract

A system and method for performing sample rate conversion and creating fractional delays to a signal is disclosed. The system comprises a filter, a look up table for storing coefficients for sample rate conversion and fractional delays, and control circuitry configured to use an indexing scheme to select one or more coefficients from the look up table for rate conversion and fractional delays. The coefficients stored in the look up table comprise the coefficients required to generate delays in desired increments of a sample rate. In the disclosed method, the one or more coefficients necessary for a desired sample rate and fractional delay are selected from a single look up table and provided to a filter to delay the signal based upon the input sample rate.

Claims

1. A system for performing sample rate conversion and creating fractional delays to a signal, the system comprising:

a filter;

a look up table for storing coefficients for sample rate conversion and fractional delays, wherein the coefficients stored in the look up table comprise the coefficients required to generate delays in desired increments of a sample rate;

control circuitry configured to use an indexing scheme to select one or more coefficients from the look up table for rate conversion and fractional delays, wherein the one or more coefficients necessary for a desired sample rate and fractional delay are selected from a single look up table.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the look up table only stores one output period of delay coefficients for the fractional delay.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising a buffer for implementing integer delays.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the filter implements the fractional delay.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the control circuitry comprises a modulo counter configured to select the coefficients.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the modulo counter has a programmable delay value to determine a preset for the modulo counter.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the preset is a function of the desired delay.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein for a given output sample rate, the control circuitry is configured to index into the look up table in increments that correspond to the desired delay.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein the control circuitry is configured to index through the look up table faster than the sample rate at fractional increments to interpolate and create fractional delays.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein the modulo counter has a programmable ratio value to determine an increment for the modulo counter.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the increment is a function of an interpolation rate.

12. The system of claim 5, wherein the modulo counter has a control for controlling a buffer for implementing integer delays.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the filter comprises a finite impulse response (FIR) filter.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the fractional delay is 1/36.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the look up table contains 36 sets of coefficients.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the fractional delay is 1/18.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the look up table contains 18 sets of coefficients.

18. A method for performing sample rate conversion and creating fractional delays to a signal, the method comprising:

selecting one or more coefficients based on an indexing scheme from a look up table that stores coefficients for sample rate conversion and fractional delays, wherein the coefficients stored in the look up table comprise the coefficients required to generate delays in desired increments of a sample rate;

providing the selected one or more coefficients to a filter to delay the signal based upon the input sample rate.

19. The method of claim 18, where the filter delays the signal by a fractional delay.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the coefficients necessary for a desired sample rate and fractional delay are selected from a single look up table.

21. The method of claim 18, wherein the look up table only stores one output period of delay coefficients for the fractional delay.

22. The method of claim 18, further comprising implementing integer delays via a buffer.

23. The method of claim 18, wherein the selecting of the coefficients is performed by a modulo counter configured to perform the indexing scheme to select the coefficients.

24. The method of claim 18, further determining a preset value for the delay.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the preset value is a function of the desired delay.

26. The method of claim 18, wherein for a given output sample rate, selecting the one or more coefficients comprises indexing into the look up table in an increment that corresponds to a desired delay.

27. The method of claim 26, further comprising programming a modulo counter with a programmable ratio value to determine the increment.

28. The method of claim 26, wherein the increment is a function of an interpolation rate.

29. The method of claim 18, wherein selecting the one or more coefficients comprises indexing through the look up table faster than the sample rate at fractional increments to interpolate and create fractional delays.

30. The method of claim 18, further comprising controlling a buffer for implementing integer delays.

31. The method of claim 18, wherein the fractional delay is 1/36.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the look up table contains 36 sets of coefficients.

33. The method of claim 18, wherein the fractional delay is 1/18.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the look up table contains 18 sets of coefficients.