Patent ID: 6873666
Filing Date: 2005-03-29
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A symbol timing recovery circuit, utilized in a phase demodulator, generating phase differences at the same sampling points of neighboring symbols to determine an optimal sampling point in a symbol period, comprising: a phase difference generating circuit for first mapping the phase difference to a first quadrant of a phase plane, subtracting the mapped difference by a default phase value to obtain a result and taking a square of the result; a selection circuit connected to the phase difference generating circuit for outputting the square of the result for every sampling point of a symbol to its corresponding output end; an accumulation module including accumulators whose number is equal to the number of the sampling points in a symbol, said accumulators receiving the outputs of the selection circuit for accumulating the squared results of the same sampling points of continuous neighboring symbols; and a comparison module for comparing the sums of the squared results outputted from the accumulators; the optimal sampling point corresponding to an accumulator having the smallest sum of the squared results.