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US 11,115,043 · App. 17/083,623 · Granted Sep 7, 2021

Digital-to-analog conversion device and digital-to-analog conversion system

Inventors: Martin Simon (Otterfing, DE); Bernhard Soehl (Sankt Wolfgang, DE)
Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
H03M1/74
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,115,043
App. No.
17/083,623
Filed
Oct 29, 2020
Granted
Sep 7, 2021
Kind
B1
Art Unit
2845
USPC
341/144
Abstract

A digital-to-analog conversion device and a digital-to-analog conversion system with multiple digital-to-analog conversion cores is provided. At least some of the multiple digital-to-analog conversion cores may be operated with different clock signals, especially with clock signals of different clock frequencies. For this purpose, each digital-to-analog conversion stage is provided with multiple different clock signals and each stage individually selects one of the multiple clock signals.

Claims (34)

1. A digital-to-analog conversion device, comprising:

a main clock input for receiving a number of one or more main clock signals and providing at least two clock signals based on the received number of one or more main clock signals, wherein each of the at least two clock signals has a different clock frequency; and

multiple digital-to-analog conversion units, each digital-to-analog conversion unit comprising:

at least two clock inputs for receiving the at least two clock signals provided by the main clock input;

a digital input for receiving a digital data signal;

an interpolator for interpolating the received digital data signal by a predetermined interpolation factor and outputting an interpolated digital data signal; and

a digital-to-analog core for receiving the interpolated digital data signal and converting the received interpolated digital data signal to an analog signal according to one of the clock signals received by the at least two clock inputs.

2. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein each of multiple digital-to-analog conversion units comprises a selector for receiving the at least two clock signals, selecting one of the at least two clock signals and providing the selected clock signal to the digital-to-analog core of the respective digital-to-analog conversion unit.

3. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein the main clock input is configured to receive at least two main clock signals and to provide each of the at least two received main clock signals to the at least two clock inputs of the multiple digital-to-analog conversion units.

4. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein the main clock input is configured to receive a single main clock signal,

the main clock input comprises a clock signal generator for generating the at least two clock signals based on the received main clock signal, and

wherein the main clock input is configured to provide the at least two generated clock signals to the at least two clock inputs of the multiple digital-to-analog conversion units.

5. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 4 , wherein the clock signal generator of the main clock input comprises a number of one or more frequency multipliers and/or frequency dividers for generating the at least two clock signals.

6. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein the at least two clock inputs are configured to receive clock signals with a frequency ratio of 4/3 or 3/2.

7. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein the predetermined interpolation factor of each interpolator is individually set.

8. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 7 , wherein the interpolation factor of each interpolator is set according to a frequency of the clock signals used by a related digital-to-analog core for converting the interpolated digital data signal.

9. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein each digital input of the multiple digital-to-analog conversion units is configured to receive the digital data signal with a same data rate.

10. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , comprising a digital interface for communicatively coupling the digital inputs of the multiple digital-to-analog conversion units with a remote interface.

11. The digital-to-analog conversion device of claim 1 , wherein the digital-to-analog conversion device is implemented on a single chip, in particular a single semiconductor chip.

12. A digital-to-analog conversion system, comprising:

a digital-to-analog conversion device, comprising:

a main clock input for receiving a number of one or more main clock signals and providing at least two clock signals based on the received number of one or more main clock signals, wherein each of the at least two clock signals has a different clock frequency; and

multiple digital-to-analog conversion units, each digital-to-analog conversion unit comprising:

at least two clock inputs for receiving the at least two clock signals provided by the main clock input;

a digital input for receiving a digital data signal;

an interpolator for interpolating the received digital data signal by a predetermined interpolation factor and outputting an interpolated digital data signal; and

a digital-to-analog core for receiving the interpolated digital data signal and converting the received interpolated digital data signal to an analog signal according to one of the clock signals received by the at least two clock inputs; and

a clock generator for generating at least one main clock signal and providing the generated at least one main clock signal to the main clock input of the digital-to-analog conversion device.

13. The digital-to-analog conversion system of claim 12 , wherein the clock generator is configured to generate at least two main clock signals and to provide the at least two generated main clock signals to the main clock input of the digital-to-analog conversion device,

wherein each of the at least two generated main clock signals has a different clock frequency.

14. The digital-to-analog conversion system of claim 13 , wherein the at least two main clock signals have a frequency ratio of 4/3 or 3/2.

15. The digital-to-analog conversion system of claim 12 , comprising a signal processing device for generating multiple data signals and providing one of the multiple data signals to a digital-to-analog conversion unit, respectively,

wherein the signal processing device is configured to provide the multiple data signals to each of the digital-to-analog conversion units with a same data rate.

16. The digital-to-analog conversion system of claim 12 , comprising a combiner for combining at least two of the analog signals provided by the digital-to-analog cores of the multiple digital-to-analog conversion units.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 13, 2021
From: SIMON, MARTIN; SOEHL, BERNHARD
To: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
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