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US 7,095,274 B2Granted
System for demodulation of phase shift keying signals
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsJose Ma. Lopez Villegas, Josep Samatier I Marti
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Abstract
The invention particularly relates to a system for demodulation of PSK signals which takes advantage from the effects that the locking of resonant circuits by superharmonic injection produce, together with the interference phenomena, and more particularly it relates to a demodulation system which is designed to avoid mutual locking between said resonant circuits.
Claims11
A system for demodulation of phase shift keying signals, or PSK signals, of the type which comprises:
- a power divider (PDIV) with an input to be injected with a PSK signal at a predetermined frequency (2f) which is the same as the frequency of a carrier signal, and with an even number M of outputs, from which corresponding signals (i1 . . . iM) are obtained, one per output, at equal frequency (2f) and phase as said PSK signal,
- argument/frequency dividers (Div1 . . . DivM) equal in number (M) to said power divider outputs, each argument/frequency divider (Div1 . . . DivM) having an input respectively connected to one of said M output power divider outputs to receive said signals (i1 . . . iM) and having, each one, a natural tuneable resonant frequency (fr1 . . . frM) close to half said output power divider signals frequency (2f), and one output from which output signals (O1 . . . OM) are obtained, one per argument/frequency divider (Div1 . . . DivM), whose phases change differently from each other when a phase change in the PSK signal is produced, and
- an output stage with inputs connected at least to said argument/frequency dividers outputs, for treating their output signals (O1 . . . OM),
- wherein said output stage is adapted to isolate said argument/frequency dividers outputs in order to avoid mutual locking between said argument/frequency dividers (Div1 . . . DivM), for which it comprises at least M-1 devices (MixF1 . . . MixFM-1) acting at least as analogue multipliers providing at their outputs M-1 signals (F1 . . . FM-1) each of them containing at least harmonic components of one of the M-1 base-band signals which were used to modulate said PSK signal.
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