Apparatus and method for measurement of the reception time of a pulse

摘要

Apparatus for measurement of the reception time of a pulse in a receiving system, which contains at least one receiving channel with a non-linear transmission response, which receiving channel produces at its output a received signal, having a memory, in which the received signals of reference pulses with a predetermined different amplitude are available as reference signals with respect to a time scale, and having an evaluation device, which is connected to the receiving system and to the memory and compares a received signal with each reference signal with a variant time offset in order to determine that reference signal and that time offset for which the comparison discrepancy is a minimum, and outputs this time offset as the reception time with respect to the time scale.

主权项

1. An apparatus for measurement of a reception time of a pulse in a receiving system including at least one receiving channel with a nonlinear transmission response, which receiving channel supplies a received signal at its output the apparatus comprising:
a memory in which at least two received signals of at least two reference pulses with predetermined different amplitudes are stored as at least two reference signals with respect to a time scale, wherein the reference signals are generated from a training and calibration sweep of the reference pulses, and an evaluation device connected to the receiving system and to the memory, wherein the evaluation device is configured to compare the received signal from the receiving channel with each reference signal of said at least two reference signals using a different time offset each in order to determine that reference signal and that time offset for which the comparison deviation is a minimum, and is configured to output this time offset as the reception time with respect to the time scale.