Device for converting a complex-valued bandpass signal into a digital baseband signal

1. A device for converting a complex-valued bandpass signal into a digital baseband signal, the device comprising:

an analog filter unit for filtering the complex-valued bandpass signal so that signal components outside of a useful band are suppressed to produce only a real component from the filtered signal, and to provide a real-valued bandpass signal;

one analog-to-digital converter connected to the analog fitter unit and that converts the real-valued bandpass signal into a digital signal with sampled values with a width of one bit;

a digital filter unit connected to the analog-to-digital converter, the digital filter being a lookup table and providing a complex-valued filtered signal in that the digital signal is filtered by complex-valued FIR filtering so that signal components outside of the useful band are suppressed;

a sampling rate reduction unit connected to the digital filter unit for reducing a sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal and for providing a reduced-rate signal; and

a mixer unit connected to the sampling rate reduction unit for converting the reduced-rate signal into the digital baseband signal.

2. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the analog filter unit filters the complex-valued bandpass signal by a third order Butterworth filter.

3. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the analog filter unit produces the real-valued bandpass signal by limiting the values of the real component of the filtered signal to a maximum value.

4. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the analog-to-digital converter samples the real-valued bandpass signal with a sampling rate of 16 Msps.

5. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the digital filter unit has a binary shift register connected to the analog-to-digital converter and a memory connected to the binary shift register and to the sampling rate reduction unit.

6. The device according to claim 5 , wherein the binary shift register stores five values of the digital signal, and wherein the memory stores 64 complex values.

7. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the mixer unit changes a sign of the real and/or imaginary component of a value of the reduced-rate signal.

8. The device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sampling rate reduction unit reduces the sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal by a factor (M) of two, and

wherein the mixer unit exchanges the real component with the imaginary component of a value of the reduced-rate signal and/or to change the sign of the real component and/or imaginary component of the value.

9. The device according to claim 1 ,

wherein the sampling rate reduction unit reduces the sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal by a factor (M) of four, and

wherein the mixer unit switches the signs of the real and imaginary components of every second value of the reduced-rate signal.

10. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the complex-valued bandpass signal has a center frequency of about 2 MHz.

11. A transmitting/receiving device for a data transmission system, the device comprising:

an antenna;

a transmitting unit connected to the antenna for transmitting data;

a receiving unit connected to the antenna and having a converting device; and

a control unit connected to the transmitting unit and the receiving unit for controlling the transmitting unit and receiving unit,

wherein the converting device comprises:

an analog filter unit for filtering the complex-valued bandpass signal so that signal components outside of a useful band are suppressed to produce only a real component from the filtered signal, and to provide a real-valued bandpass signal;

one analog-to-digital converter connected to the analog filter unit and that converts the real-valued bandpass signal into a digital signal with sampled values with a width of one bit;

a digital fitter unit connected to the analog-to-digital converter, the digital filter being a lookup table and providing a complex-valued filtered signal in that the digital signal is filtered by complex-valued FIR filtering so that signal components outside of the useful band are suppressed;

a sampling rate reduction unit connected to the digital filter unit for reducing a sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal and for providing a reduced-rate signal; and

a mixer unit connected to the sampling rate reduction unit for converting the reduced-rate signal into the digital baseband signal.

12. The transmitting/receiving device according to claim 11 , wherein the rata is transmitted according to IEEE Standard 802.15.4-2003.

13. The device according to claim 1 , wherein the device is an integrated circuit.

14. A device for converting a complex-valued bandpass signal having a plurality of spectrally separated channels into a digital baseband signal, the device comprising:

an analog filter unit configured to filter the complex-valued bandpass signal thereby selecting one channel of the plurality of spectrally separated channels so that signal components outside of a band defined by the selected channel are suppressed, the analog filter unit producing only a real component from the felt red signal and providing a real-valued bandpass signal;

one analog-to-digital converter connectable to the analog filter unit and configured to convert the real-valued bandpass signal into a digital signal with sampled values with a width of one bit;

a digital filter unit connectable to the analog-to-digital converter, the digital filter being a lookup table and providing a complex-valued filtered signal in that the digital signal is filtered by complex-valued FIR filtering so that signal components outside of the useful band are suppressed;

a sampling rate reduction unit connectable to the digital filter unit and configured to reduce a sampling rate of the complex-valued filtered signal and configured to provide a reduced-rate signal; and

a mixer unit connectable to the sampling rate reduction unit and configured to convert the reduced-rate signal into the digital baseband signal.