Radio communication apparatus and DC offset adjustment method

• US 8,396,433 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2008
• Issued: 03/12/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 12/10/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Original Assignee: NEC Corporation
• Inventors: Kawai, Masahiro
• Primary Examiner(s): Ghebretinsae, Temesgh
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chan, Richard
• Application Number:
  US12/742,577
• Publication Number:
  US 20100273439A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,596 Days
• Field of Search: 455/113, 375/296, 375/297, 375/298
• US Class Current: 455/113
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 25/06 Dc level restoring means; Bias distortion correction ; Decision circuits providing symbol by symbol detection
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/368 adaptive predistortion

Abstract

At a transmitting side, during carrier leak adjustment, quadrature modulation means uses a carrier wave having a frequency different from that at a receiving side to quadrature-modulate an outgoing signal. Feedback means feeds a modulated wave resulting from the quadrature modulation back to the receiving side. At the receiving side, quadrature demodulation means quadrature-demodulates the fed back modulated wave. Phase locking means locks the phase of the signal resulting from the quadrature demodulation to match the phase to the phase at the transmitting side. Offset detection means time-averages the phase-locked signal to detect a direct-current offset. At the transmitting side, based on the value of the direct-current offset detected at the receiving side, offset adjustment means corrects a direct-current offset of the outgoing signal to be quadrature-modulated.

Claims

1. A radio communication apparatus comprising:

a quadrature modulator that quadrature-modulates an outgoing signal by using a carrier wave having a frequency different from a frequency at a receiving side during carrier leak adjustment;

a feedback unit that feeds a modulated wave resulting from the quadrature modulation by the quadrature modulator back to the receiving side;

a quadrature demodulator that quadrature-demodulates the modulated wave fed back by the feedback unit;

a phase locker that locks a phase of a signal resulting from the quadrature demodulation by the quadrature demodulator to match the phase to a phase at the transmitting side;

an offset detector that detects a direct-current offset by time-averaging the signal with a phase locked by the phase locker;

a first offset adjuster that, on the basis of the value of the direct-current offset detected by the offset detector, corrects a direct-current offset of the outgoing signal to be quadrature-modulated by the quadrature modulator;

a third offset adjustor that corrects a direct-current offset of the signal on the basis of a value of a direct-current offset detected in the signal with the phase locked by the phase locker;

a pattern generator that generates a predetermined pattern to be input into the direct-current modulator during carrier leak adjustment; and

a pattern detector that detects the pattern in a signal in which a direct-current offset has been corrected by the third offset adjuster to determine a carrier recovery phase.

2. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising second offset adjuster that detects a direct-current offset by time-averaging a signal obtained by the quadrature modulator, corrects a direct-current offset of the signal on the basis of a detected value, and sends the corrected signal to the phase locker.

3. The radio communication apparatus according claim 1, wherein the offset detector also acts as the third offset adjuster.

4. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein, during carrier leak adjustment, a signal of the pattern generated by the pattern generator is used as the outgoing signal to be quadrature-modulated by the quadrature modulator, and the pattern detector determines as a carrier recovery phase a phase in which the pattern has been detected.

5. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the pattern generated by the pattern generator is inserted in the outgoing signal at regular intervals and the pattern detector determines as a carrier recovery phase a phase in which the pattern inserted at regular intervals has been detected.

6. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 5, further comprising:

a mapping unit that rotational symmetry maps a signal in which the pattern has been inserted;

a first differential converter that calculates the difference between adjacent symbols for the top path of the signal resulting from the mapping by the mapping unit and sends the difference as the outgoing signal to be quadrature-modulated by the quadrature modulator;

a second differential convertor that performs the reverse of the operation performed by the first differential convertor on an output from the third offset adjustor and outputs the resulting output; and

a demapping unit that rotational-symmetry-demapps an output from the second differential convertor and sends the resulting signal to the pattern detector;

wherein, during carrier leak adjustment, the first differential convertor and second differential convertor stop signal conversion operations.

7. The radio communication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising a controller that causes the first offset adjustor to repeat the direct-current offset correction and causes the offset detector to repeat the direct-current offset detection until a direct-current offset detected by the offset detector after direct-current offset correction by the first offset adjustor becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value.

8. A direct-current offset adjustment method for adjusting a direct-current offset within an apparatus, comprising:

at a transmitting side,

quadrature-modulating an outgoing signal by using a carrier wave having a frequency different from a frequency at an receiving side during carrier leak adjustment; and

feeding a modulated wave resulting from the quadrature modulation back to the receiving side;

at the receiving side,

quadrature-demodulating the fed back modulated wave;

locking a phase of a signal resulting from the quadrature demodulation to match the phase of the signal to a phase at the transmitting side; and

detecting a direct-current offset by time-averaging the phase locked signal; and

at the transmitting side,

correcting, on the basis of the value of the direct-current offset detected at the receiving side, a direct-current offset of the outgoing signal to be quadrature-modulated;

wherein,

at the transmitting side, a predetermined pattern is generated and used in the outgoing signal;

at the receiving side,

the direct-current offset detected in the phase-locked signal is notified to the transmitting side and a direct-current offset of the signal is corrected on the basis of the direct-current offset; and

the pattern is detected in the signal in which the direct-current offset has been corrected to determine a carrier recovery phase.

9. The direct-current offset adjustment method according to claim 8, wherein

at the receiving side,

the signal resulting from quadrature demodulation is time-averaged to detect a direct-current offset, a direct-current offset is corrected on the basis of the detected value, and processing is performed on the signal in which the direct-current offset has been corrected to lock the phase of the signal.

10. The direct-current offset adjustment method according to claim 8, wherein:

at the transmitting side, a signal of the generated pattern is used as the outgoing signal during carrier leak adjustment; and

at the receiving side, a phase in which the pattern has been detected is determined as a carrier recovery phase.

11. The direct-current offset adjustment method according to claim 8, wherein:

at the transmitting side, the generated pattern is inserted in the outgoing signal at regular intervals; and

at the receiving side, a phase in which the pattern inserted at the regular intervals has been detected is determined as a carrier recovery phase.

12. The direct-current offset adjustment method according to claim 11, wherein:

at the transmitting side,

a signal in which the pattern has been inserted is rotational-symmetry-mapped;

a differential conversion operation is performed on the signal resulting from the rotational-symmetry-mapping to calculate the difference between adjacent symbols for the top path of the signal and the resulting signal is quadrature-modulated as the outgoing signal;

at the receiving side,

the reverse of the differential conversion operation is performed on the signal in which a direct-current offset has been corrected and the signal is rotational-symmetry-demapped to detect the pattern in the signal resulting from the rotational-symmetry-demapping; and

during carrier leak adjustment, the differential conversion operation and the reverse of the differential conversion operation are stopped.

13. The direct-current offset adjustment method according to claim 8, wherein:

direct-current offset correction at the transmitting side and direct-current offset detection at the receiving side are repeated until a direct-current offset detected at the receiving side after direct-current offset correction at the transmitting side becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value.