Transmission apparatus with variable impedance matching
The invention provides a transmission apparatus ( 100 ) for transmission of electrical signals between a line driver ( 205 ), which is connected to a transmission line ( 201 ), and a switching center ( 301 ), having an analog feedback device ( 101 ) for coarse setting of a line voltage level ( 210 ) on the transmission line ( 201 ), and a digital feedback device ( 102 ), which is coupled to the analog feedback device ( 101 ) and has a feedback filter device ( 118 ), designed such that a filter input signal ( 404 ) can be converted to a filter output signal ( 405 ) at a rate which is lower than the sampling rate (f a ) of an analog/digital converter ( 104 ).
1. Transmission apparatus for transmission of electrical signals between a line driver, which is connected to a transmission line, and a switching center, having:
a) an analog feedback device for coarse setting of a line voltage level on the transmission line as a function of a line current which is detected in the line driver; and
b) a digital feedback device, which is coupled to the analog feedback device via an analog/digital converter and a digital/analog converter and has a single digital feedback path having a feedback filter device for fine setting of an amplitude and phase relationship between the line voltage level and the line current, wherein
c) the feedback filter device is designed such that a filter input signal can be converted to a filter output signal at a rate which is lower than the sampling rate of the analog/digital converter, wherein
d) the feedback filter device comprises a first recursive filter unit, a non-recursive filter unit connected in parallel with the first recursive filter unit, and a second recursive filter unit which is connected in series with the parallel circuit formed by the first recursive filter unit and the non-recursive filter unit; and wherein
e) the digital feedback device comprises a processing unit for carrying out signal processing in order to provide the switching center with a processed output signal, wherein the filter input signal is also supplied to the processing unit.
2. Apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the non-recursive filter unit in the feedback filter device has a smaller number of coefficient multiplication units than the filter order.
3. Apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the non-recursive filter unit in the feedback filter device has a smaller number of delay units than the filter order.
4. Apparatus according to claim 3 , wherein the delay units in the non-recursive filter unit in the feedback filter device each have a signal delay of y clock cycles, while the relationship y=k/n is satisfied, and y is an integer, wherein k is the filter order and n is the number of delay units in the non-recursive filter unit.
5. Apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the first recursive filter unit and the second recursive filter unit are of a lower filter order than the non-recursive filter unit in the feedback filter device.
6. Apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the analog feedback device for coarse setting of the line voltage level on the transmission line has an amplifier unit whose gain can be selected as a function of the line current which is detected in the line driver.
7. Apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the at least one recursive filter unit in the feedback filter device has a filter order of unity.
8. Transmission method for transmission of electrical signals between a line driver, which is connected to a transmission line, and a switching center, having the following steps:
a) detecting of a line current, which is flowing in the transmission line, by means of a current signal detection unit in the line driver;
b) coarse selling of a line voltage level on the transmission line as a function of the line current, which is detected by means of the current signal detection unit in the line driver, in an analog feedback device in the transmission apparatus; and
c) fine setting of an amplitude and phase relationship between the line voltage level and the line current by means of a feedback filter device in a digital feedback device which has a single digital feedback path and which is coupled to the analog feedback device via an analog/digital converter and a digital/analog converter, wherein
d) converting a filter input signal in the feedback filter device to a filter output signal at a rate which is lower than the sampling rate of the analog/digital converter, wherein the feedback filter device comprises a first recursive filter unit, a non-recursive filter unit connected in parallel with the first recursive filter unit, and a second recursive filter unit which is connected in series with the parallel circuit formed by the first recursive filter unit and the non-recursive filter unit; and wherein
e) the digital feedback device comprises a processing unit for carrying out signal processing in order to provide the switching center with a processed output signal, wherein the filter input signal is also supplied to the processing unit.
9. Method according to claim 8 , wherein the line voltage level on the transmission line is set in the analog feedback device by means of an amplifier unit whose gain can be selected as a function of the line current which is detected in the line driver.