Delta sigma modulation circuit, digital transmission circuit, and digital transmitter
AssigneeMitsubishi Electric Corporation
InventorsHiroyuki Mizutani, Tatsuya Hagiwara, Michiya Hayama
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Abstract
Disclosed is a circuit including: a loop filter to perform digital processing on a signal inputted from an outside; multiple quantizers to output 1-bit signals corresponding to magnitude relationships with thresholds on the basis of the signal after the digital processing by the loop filter; and an averaging circuit to calculate the average of the values shown by the signals outputted by the quantizers, and to feed back the average to the loop filter, in which the thresholds used by the quantizers differ from one another.
Claims7
A delta sigma modulation circuit comprising:
- a loop filter to perform digital processing on a signal inputted from an outside;
- multiple quantizers to output 1-bit signals corresponding to magnitude relationships with thresholds on a basis of the signal after the digital processing by the loop filter;
- and
- an averaging circuit to calculate an average of the signals respectively outputted by the quantizers, and to feed back the average to the loop filter,
- wherein the thresholds used by the quantizers differ from one another.
A digital transmission circuit comprising:
- a loop filter to perform digital processing on a signal inputted from an outside;
- multiple quantizers to output 1-bit signals corresponding to magnitude relationships with thresholds on a basis of the signal after the digital processing by the loop filter;
- an averaging circuit to calculate an average of the signals respectively outputted by the quantizers, and to feed back the average to the loop filter;
- and
- a combining circuit to combine amplitudes of the signals outputted by the quantizers,
- wherein the thresholds used by the quantizers differ from one another.
A digital transmitter comprising:
- a modem to generate a signal which is a transmission object;
- a loop filter to perform digital processing on the signal generated by the modem;
- multiple quantizers to output 1-bit signals corresponding to magnitude relationships with thresholds on a basis of the signal after the digital processing by the loop filter;
- an averaging circuit to calculate an average of the signals respectively outputted by the quantizers, and to feed back the average to the loop filter;
- a combining circuit to combine amplitudes of the signals outputted by the quantizers;
- an amplifier to amplify power of a signal after the combining by the combining circuit;
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- an antenna to emit the signal after the amplification by the amplifier, as an electric wave, into space,
- wherein the thresholds used by the quantizers differ from one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.