IP Library Granted Patent US 9,831,845
Granted Patent B2
US 9,831,845 · App. 15/278,940 · Granted Nov 28, 2017

Single conversion receiver and communication system including same

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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 9,831,845
App. No.
15/278,940
Granted
Nov 28, 2017
Kind
B2
Abstract

There is provides a single conversion receiver and a communication system having wide occupied frequency bands and good receiving sensitivity. The single conversion receiver includes: a first bandpass filter that lets only a desired band of a received RF signal pass through; a first mixer that converts the RF signal passing through the first bandpass filter into a first intermediate frequency signal; a second bandpass filter that lets only a band of a desired frequency channel of the first intermediate frequency signal pass through; a quadrature demodulator that converts the first intermediate frequency signal to baseband signals composed of an I phase and a Q phase; an oscillator that generates a first local signal 2^M times the center frequency of the second bandpass filter (where M is an integer); a fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer that generates a second local signal with a frequency non-integer times the first local signal and supplies the second local signal to the first mixer; and a first frequency divider that divides the frequency of the first local signal by (2^M) to generate a third local signal and a fourth local signal having 90 degree phase difference from the third local signal, and supplies the third local signal and the fourth local signal to the quadrature demodulator.

Claims (15)

1. A single conversion receiver comprising:

a first bandpass filter that lets only a desired band of a received RF signal pass through;

a first mixer that converts the RF signal passing through the first bandpass filter into a first intermediate frequency signal;

a second bandpass filter that lets only a band of a desired frequency channel of the first intermediate frequency signal pass through;

a quadrature demodulator that converts the first intermediate frequency signal to baseband signals composed of an I phase and a Q phase;

an oscillator that generates a first local signal 2^M times a center frequency of the second bandpass filter, where M is an integer;

a fractional-N PLL frequency synthesizer that generates a second local signal with a frequency non-integer times the first local signal and supplies the second local signal to the first mixer; and

a first frequency divider that divides a frequency of the first local signal by 2^M to generate a third local signal and a fourth local signal having 90 degree phase difference from the third local signal, and supplies the third local signal and the fourth local signal to the quadrature demodulator.

2. The receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising:

a first analog to digital (AD) converter that AD-converts the I-phase baseband signal and outputs a first digital baseband signal;

a second AD converter that AD-converts the Q-phase baseband signal and outputs a second digital baseband signal;

a second frequency divider that supplies a fifth local signal, obtained by dividing a frequency of the first local signal by N, where N is an integer, to the first and second AD converters as a sampling clock; and

a decoder that receives the first and second digital baseband signals as inputs, and outputs a digitally modulated signal.

3. The receiver according to claim 2 , wherein a symbol rate of the digitally modulated signal is set to be 2^M/(N·P) times the center frequency of the second bandpass filter, where P is an integer of 2 or more.

4. A communication system comprising the receiver according to claim 1 .

Assignments (3)
CHANGE OF ADDRESS Recorded Jun 8, 2023
From: ABLIC INC.
To: ABLIC INC.
Reel/Frame 064021/0575 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Mar 12, 2018
From: SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
To: ABLIC INC.
Reel/Frame 045567/0927 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 29, 2016
From: TANAKA, TOSHIYUKI
To: SII SEMICONDUCTOR CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 039892/0056 →