Bluetooth signal receiving method and device using improved carrier frequency offset compensation

• US 9,912,503 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2016
• Issued: 03/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Abov Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Abov Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Chu, Sang Young, Moon, Ki Tae, Hong, Suk Kyun
• Primary Examiner(s): Perez, James M
• Application Number:
  US15/390,412
• Publication Number:
  US 20170195151A1
• Time in Patent Office: 438 Days
• Field of Search: 375130-137, 375259-285, 375316-352
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/0014 Carrier regulation of chaotic carriers H04L27/001; for multicarrier receivers H04L27/2657
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/144 with demodulation using spectral properties of the received signal, e.g. by using frequency selective- or frequency sensitive elements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/148 using filters, including PLL-type filters
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/22 Demodulator circuits; Receiver circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

Disclosed herein are a Bluetooth signal receiving device and method. The Bluetooth signal receiving device includes a frequency shift demodulator circuit, a sampler circuit, a training bit pattern discriminator circuit, and a frequency offset compensation circuit. The frequency shift demodulator circuit generates a baseband signal by performing frequency shift demodulation on a received signal, and generates a frequency proportion signal having a value proportional to the frequency of the baseband signal. The sampler circuit generates a plurality of series of bit streams from the frequency proportion signal. The training bit pattern discriminator circuit determines whether the plurality of series of bit streams generated by the sampler circuit satisfies a training bit pattern condition. The frequency offset compensation circuit compensates the frequency proportion signal by using a measured error metric as a effective error metric when the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition.

Claims

1. A Bluetooth signal receiving device comprising:

a frequency shift demodulator circuit configured to;

generate a baseband signal by performing frequency shift demodulation on a received signal; and

generate a frequency proportion signal having a value proportional to a frequency of the baseband signal;

a digital sampler circuit configured to generate a plurality of series of bit streams, sampled in a digital domain at a preset time interval, from the frequency proportion signal, wherein at least one of the received signal, the baseband signal, and the frequency proportion signal is converted from an analog domain to the digital domain;

a training bit pattern discriminator circuit configured to determine whether the plurality of series of bit streams generated by the digital sampler circuit satisfies a training bit pattern condition; and

a frequency offset compensation circuit configured to compensate the frequency proportion signal by using a measured error metric as an effective error metric when the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition.

2. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, wherein the training bit pattern condition is set by applying a selective bit stream decision-directed technique.

3. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, wherein the training bit pattern condition is adapted to select a bit stream having a distribution in which a negative direction frequency shift and a positive direction frequency shift are complementary to each other from among the plurality of series of bit streams.

4. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, wherein the frequency offset compensation circuit is further configured to measure the error metric by applying a minimum-maximum average technique to the plurality of series of bit streams.

5. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 4, wherein the frequency offset compensation circuit is further configured to:

select a representative frequency shift when frequency shifts having an identical polarity appear successively in the plurality of series of bit streams; and

measure the error metric by applying the minimum-maximum average technique to the representative frequency shift.

6. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, wherein the frequency offset compensation circuit is further configured to, when the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition a plurality of times within a first time interval, calculate a first representative value of a plurality of effective error metrics within the first time interval and compensate the frequency proportion signal by using the first representative value.

7. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, wherein the training bit pattern discriminator circuit is further configured to determine whether the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition not only in a preamble interval of Bluetooth but also in an access address or protocol data unit interval thereof.

8. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, further comprising memory configured to:

accumulate the plurality of series of bit streams, generated by the sampler, up to a preset number; and

store the accumulated plurality of series of bit streams;

wherein the training bit pattern discriminator circuit is further configured to determine whether the plurality of series of bit streams accumulated up to the preset number and stored in the memory satisfies the training bit pattern condition.

9. The Bluetooth signal receiving device of claim 1, wherein when the received signal is a signal transmitted through a Gaussian filter, a maximum length of the training bit pattern condition is determined in accordance with a bandwidth or length of the Gaussian filter.

10. A Bluetooth signal receiving method comprising:

generating a baseband signal by performing frequency shift demodulation on a received signal;

generating a frequency proportion signal having a value proportional to a frequency of the baseband signal;

generating a plurality of series of bit streams, sampled in a digital domain at a preset time interval, from the frequency proportion signal, wherein at least one of the received signal, the baseband signal, and the frequency proportion signal is converted from an analog domain to the digital domain;

determining whether the plurality of series of bit streams generated in the digital domain satisfies a training bit pattern condition; and

compensating the frequency proportion signal by using a measured error metric as an effective error metric when the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition.

11. The Bluetooth signal receiving method of claim 10, wherein the training bit pattern condition is set by applying a selective bit stream decision-directed technique.

12. The Bluetooth signal receiving method of claim 10, wherein the training bit pattern condition has a distribution in which a negative direction frequency shift and a positive direction frequency shift are complementary to each other within the plurality of series of bit streams.

13. The Bluetooth signal receiving method of claim 10, further comprising measuring the error metric by applying a minimum-maximum average technique to the plurality of series of bit streams.

14. The Bluetooth signal receiving method of claim 10, wherein the determining comprises determining whether the plurality of series of bit streams satisfies the training bit pattern condition not only in a preamble interval of Bluetooth but also in an access address or protocol data unit interval.

15. The Bluetooth signal receiving method of claim 10, further comprising accumulating the plurality of series of bit streams, generated by the sampler, up to a preset number, and storing the accumulated plurality of series of bit streams;

wherein the determining comprises determining whether the plurality of series of bit streams accumulated up to the preset number and then stored satisfies the training bit pattern condition.