Modulator, mixer and method for amplitude shift keying modulation
AssigneeBeken Corporation
InventorsPeng Han, Dawei Guo Guo, Jiazhou Liu, Yanfeng Wang
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Abstract
An ASK modulator includes a baseband unit which obtains a sequence comprising at least one amplitude value and adds an additional value to each of the at least one amplitude value to generate a modified sequence; a digital-to-analog converter coupled to the baseband unit, the digital-to-analog converter converts the modified sequence to generate a first signal, the additional value is determined based on a half scale of the digital-analog converter; and a mixer which receives the first signal and a second signal and generate a modulated signal by mixing the first signal with the second signal.
Claims10
An ASK modulator, comprising:
- a baseband unit configured to obtain a sequence comprising at least one amplitude value, and add an additional value to each of the at least one amplitude value to generate a modified sequence, wherein the additional value is determined based on a half scale of a digital-to-analog converter;
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- the digital-to-analog converter which is coupled to the baseband unit, and configured to convert the modified sequence to generate a first signal;
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- a mixer configured to receive the first signal and a second signal and generate a modulated signal by mixing the first signal with the second signal;
- wherein the baseband unit is further configured to provide at least one test value to the digital-to-analog converter;
- the digital-to-analog converter is further configured to receive the at least one test value and generate an indicator indicating if the at least one test value is within the scale of the digital-to-analog converter;
- the baseband unit is further configured to receive the indicator and determine the scale of the digital-to-analog converter and
- determining the additional value based on the half scale of the digital-to-analog converter.
A method for ASK modulation, comprising:
- obtaining a sequence comprising at least one amplitude value by a baseband unit;
- adding an additional value to each of the at least one amplitude value to generate a modified sequence by the baseband unit;
- converting the modified sequence by a digital-to-analog converter to generate a first signal, wherein the additional value is determined based on a half scale of the digital-to-analog converter;
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- mixing the first signal with a second signal by a mixer to generate a modulated signal;
- and the method further comprises:
- providing at least one test value by the base band unit to the digital-to-analog converter;
- receiving the at least one test value and generating, by the digital-to-analog converter, an indicator indicating if the at least one test value is within the scale of the digital-to-analog converter;
- receiving the indicator and determining, by the baseband unit, the scale of the digital-to-analog converter and
- determining, by the baseband unit, the additional value based on the half scale of the digital-to-analog converter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.