Polar receiver with adjustable delay and signal processing metho
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a harmonic injection-locked oscillator (ILO) having an RF modulated signal input and a phase-compressed divided-frequency output;
a fundamental ILO connected to the phase-compressed divided-frequency output and a phase-locking output;
an adjustable delay circuit connected to the phase-compressed divided-frequency output and a having a delay output;
a phase discriminator connected to the delay output and to the phase-locking output, and having a phase-detection output representative of a phase difference between signals on the delay output and the phase-locking output.
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Abstract
Adjusting a relative phase within a polar receiver to reduce a DC error, the polar receiver having (i) a harmonic ILO having an RF modulated signal input and a phase-compressed divided-frequency output, (ii) a fundamental ILO connected to the phase-compressed divided-frequency output and having a phase-locking output, (iii) a delay element, and (iv) a phase discriminator connected to the delay element output and to the phase-locking output, and having a phase-detection output representative of a phase difference between signals on the delay output and the phase-locking output.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a harmonic injection-locked oscillator (ILO) having an RF modulated signal input and a phase-compressed divided-frequency output; a fundamental ILO connected to the phase-compressed divided-frequency output and a phase-locking output; an adjustable delay circuit connected to the phase-compressed divided-frequency output and a having a delay output; a phase discriminator connected to the delay output and to the phase-locking output, and having a phase-detection output representative of a phase difference between signals on the delay output and the phase-locking output. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A method comprising:
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adjusting a resonance frequency of a fundamental injection-locked oscillator (ILO) to change the free-running frequency of the fundamental ILO; injecting a non-phase modulated signal into a second-harmonic ILO and connecting an output of the second-harmonic ILO to the fundamental ILO; and adjusting a relative delay between the output of the second-harmonic ILO and an output of the fundamental ILO using a delay circuit. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. An apparatus comprising:
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a harmonic injection-locked oscillator (ILO) operative to receive an RF modulated signal input and to provide a phase-compressed divided-frequency signal output; a fundamental ILO operative to receive the phase-compressed divided-frequency signal output and to provide a phase-locking signal output; an adjustable delay circuit configured to adjust a relative phase difference between the phase-compressed divided-frequency signal and the phase-locking signal;
a phase discriminator operative to receive the phase-compressed divided-frequency signal and the phase-locking signal and to provide a phase-detection output representative of a phase difference between the phase-compressed divided-frequency signal and the phase-locking signal. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20)
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