发明名称 Apparatuses and methods for linear to discrete quantization conversion with reduced sampling variation errors
摘要 Provided is an apparatus for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal, which includes an input line for accepting an input signal, multiple processing branches coupled to the input line, and an adder coupled to outputs of the plurality of processing branches. Each of the processing branches includes a sampling/quantization circuit and a digital bandpass interpolation filter having an input coupled to an output of the sampling/quantization circuit. The digital bandpass interpolation filters in different ones of the processing branches have frequency responses that are centered at different frequencies. The digital bandpass interpolation filter in at least one of the processing branches includes: (i) a quadrature downconverter, (ii) a first lowpass filter and a second lowpass filter, (iii) a first interpolator and a second interpolator, each having an input for inputting a variable interpolant value, and (iv) a quadrature upconverter.
申请公布号 US9000967(B2) 申请公布日期 2015.04.07
申请号 US201314056917 申请日期 2013.10.17
申请人 Syntropy Systems, LLC 发明人 Pagnanelli Christopher
分类号 H03M1/12;H03M3/00 主分类号 H03M1/12
代理机构 Joseph G. Swan, P.C. 代理人 Joseph G. Swan, P.C.
主权项 1. An apparatus for converting a continuous-time, continuously variable signal into a sampled and quantized signal, comprising: an input line for accepting an input signal that is continuous in time and continuously variable; a plurality of processing branches coupled to the input line, each of said processing branches including: (a) a sampling/quantization circuit, and (b) a digital bandpass interpolation filter having an input coupled to an output of the sampling/quantization circuit; and an adder coupled to outputs of the plurality of processing branches, wherein the digital bandpass interpolation filters in different ones of the plurality of processing branches have frequency responses that are centered at different frequencies, wherein the digital bandpass interpolation filter in at least one of said processing branches comprises: (i) a quadrature downconverter, (ii) a first lowpass filter and a second lowpass filter, (iii) a first interpolator and a second interpolator, each having an input for inputting a variable interpolant value, and (iv) a quadrature upconverter, and wherein input samples and output samples of said digital bandpass interpolation filter in at least one of said processing branches are different discrete-time representations of an underlying continuous-time signal, with the output samples representing an altered sampling period, as compared to the input samples, and with the sampling period being altered by an amount that depends on the variable interpolant value.
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