OFDM receiving circuit having multiple demodulation paths using oversampling analog-to-digital converter

1. An OFDM receiving circuit for processing an OFDM signal, the circuit comprising:

a low noise amplifier configured to amplify a received OFDM signal representing received data in an OFDM format; and

a plurality of demodulation paths between the low noise amplifier and a combiner for combining data, wherein each of the plurality of demodulation paths includes an oversampled digital converter, a digital filter, and a demodulator, and is configured to receive an output signal of the low noise amplifier and to output demodulated data,

wherein the OFDM signal comprises a plurality of bands each to include a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers, and each of the plurality of demodulation paths is configured to subject a down-converted OFDM signal from the low noise amplifier in a corresponding one of the plurality of bands to a respective oversampled digital converter, digital filter, and demodulator, and to output the demodulated data,

wherein the combiner is configured to combine the demodulated data being outputted from the plurality of demodulation paths, to output the received data, and

wherein a bandwidth of one of the plurality of bands nearest to a center frequency of the band of the OFDM signal is larger than that of one of the plurality of bands farthest from the center frequency.

2. The circuit in accordance with claim 1 , comprising a single down-conversion mixer to down-convert an output signal of the low noise amplifier or a plurality of down-conversion mixers each in a corresponding one of the plurality of demodulation paths.

3. The circuit in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said each of the plurality of demodulation paths comprises:

a down-conversion mixer to down-convert the output signal of the low noise amplifier;

an oversampling ADC to perform the oversampled digital conversion of an output of the down-conversion mixer;

a digital filter to pass through the signal of an output signal of the oversampling ADC in the one of the plurality of bands corresponding to said each of the plurality of demodulation paths; and

a demodulator to demodulate an output of the digital filter.

4. The circuit in accordance with claim 3 , wherein an oversampling rate of the oversampling ADC is equal to or more than 2.

5. The circuit in accordance with claim 3 , wherein the oversampling ADC comprises a sigma-delta ADC.

6. The circuit in accordance with claim 1 , wherein said each of the plurality of demodulation paths comprises:

a down-conversion mixer to down-convert the output signal of the low noise amplifier;

an analog filter to pass through the OFDM signal from the down-conversion mixer;

an oversampling ADC to perform the oversampled digital conversion of the OFDM signal from the analog filter;

a digital filter to pass the signal of an output signal of the oversampling ADC in the one of the plurality of bands corresponding to said each of the plurality of demodulation paths; and

a demodulator to demodulate an output of the digital filter.

7. The circuit in accordance with claim 6 , wherein the analog filter comprises a passive RC filter.

8. The circuit in accordance with claim 1 , further comprising an amplifier connected between a down-conversion mixer and the plurality of demodulation paths wherein the amplifier is configured to amplify the output signal of the down-conversion mixer to input to the plurality of demodulation paths.

9. An OFDM receiving method comprising:

amplifying a received OFDM signal including received data encoded in an OFDM format;

obtaining a plurality of first digital signals from the amplified OFDM signal, wherein the OFDM signal is divided into a plurality of OFDM bands, each of the plurality of OFDM bands including a plurality of OFDM sub-carriers, and each of the plurality of first digital signals is obtained by down-converting the amplified OFDM signal and subjecting a signal of the down-converted OFDM signal in one of the plurality of OFDM bands corresponding to each of the plurality of first digital signals to an oversampled digital conversion;

digital filtering each of the plurality of first digital signals to obtain a plurality of respective filtered digital signals;

demodulating the plurality of filtered digital signals to obtain a plurality of respective demodulated data; and

combining the plurality of demodulated data to obtain a combined demodulated data corresponding to the received OFDM signal and that represents the received data,

wherein a bandwidth of one of the plurality of bands nearest to a center frequency of the band of the OFDM signal is larger than that of one of the plurality of bands farthest to the center frequency.

10. The method in accordance with claim 9 , further comprising:

down-converting the amplified OFDM signal, wherein the oversampled digital conversion is carried out by a sigma-delta ADC.