Demodulator circuit, radio communication system and communication semiconductor integrated circuit

摘要

A communication semiconductor integrated circuit has a demodulator circuit built in a single semiconductor chip. The demodulator circuit is constructed to demodulate a received OFDM-modulated packet signal including a preamble that has two or more fixed-signal sequences, and to have a frequency-error estimating/correcting function that estimates the frequency error of the received signal by using the received preamble and corrects the received signal for the frequency error, a fast Fourier transform function (FFT portion 210 ) that converts the time-axis information of the corrected received signal to frequency-axis information, a transmission path response estimating/correcting function that estimates the status of the transmission path from the converted signal and corrects the received signal for the transmission path response, and an averaging function that averages the received signal after being corrected for the frequency error so that the averaging can be performed before the fast Fourier transform process.