Patent ID: 6975686

Claim:
A modulation system comprising: a digital signal processor that generates in-phase, quadrature-phase and amplitude signals from a baseband signal; a modulator that modulates the in-phase and quadrature-phase signals to produce a modulated signal; a phase locked loop that is responsive to the modulated signal, the phase locked loop including a controlled oscillator having a controlled oscillator output; and an amplifier having a signal input, an amplitude control input and an output, wherein the signal input is responsive to the controlled oscillator output and the amplitude control input is responsive to the amplitude signal; wherein the in-phase and quadrature-phase signals are normalized in-phase and quadrature-phase signals such that the modulated signal is a constant amplitude modulated signal; and wherein the digital signal processor generates the normalized in-phase signal as one of a cosine and a sine of an angle theta and generates the normalized quadrature-phase signal as the other of a cosine and a sine of the angle theta, where theta is an angle whose tangent is the quadrature-phase signal divided by the in-phase signal.