Patent Application: US-64576891-A

Abstract:
an apparatus for obtaining carrier synchronization acquisition in a digital burst mode communication system is provided . an accurate estimate of the carrier phase of the unmodulated preamble , θ , is obtained by determining which of 256 intervals x o 2 + x e 2 fall into , and by evaluating which of 256 intervals y o 2 + y e 2 fall into . a quantized value is assigned to the generated output code for both x and y inputs . the square root and arc tangent are evaluated to determine the value θ .

Description:
fig3 a and 3b illustrate the preferred embodiment of the present invention . as shown in fig3 a and 3b , an accurate estimate of the carrier phase of an unmodulated preamble is obtained using only 2 proms and a latch . as background information , a simple mathematical derivation follows . given x 1 & gt ; 0 , it is desired to determine the largest value of x 2 , for which an angle ε of fig4 is less than or equal a fixed amount ε max for any given y . it can be mathematically shown that the answer is x 2 = ax 1 where ## equ2 ## and that the value of y resulting in ε = ε max is also , as noted above , a similar procedure gives identical results if the x &# 39 ; s and y &# 39 ; s above are interchanged . accordingly , the following conclusion can be derived from the results . and x is quantized into intervals of the form ( x sin , ax min ), ( ax min , a 2 x min ) . . . and similarly for y , and the quantization value is taken as the geometric mean of the interval , then the quantization of x and y will cause an error of no greater than 2ε max in the value of φ , as illustrated in fig5 . if on the other hand , it is desired to find the value of ## equ3 ## and x and y are quantized as above , then the error resulting from the quantization will be no greater than ε max . this is true because quantizing x in steps of a is equivalent to quantizing √ in steps of √ . for a small ε max , it is easy to show that if a corresponds to ε max , then the √ corresponds approximately to 1 / 2 ε max . relating the above to the present invention , values along the x axis are of the form x 0 2 + x e 2 where x 0 and x e are each 8 bits , i . e ., they are integers between - 127 and + 127 . assigning a quantization value of 0 for the case x 0 2 + x e 2 = 0 , intervals can be formed beginning with x 0 2 + x e 2 = 1 , the intervals being of the form : ( 1 , a ), ( a , a 2 ), ( a 2 , a 3 ) . . ., where the value of a is chosen such that a 255 = 127 2 + 127 2 , i . e ., such that 255 intervals are assigned to all non - zero values of x 0 2 + x e 2 . accordingly , this provides the results that a = 1 . 04155 , i . e ., √ a = 1 . 02056 . from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) above , the corresponding maximum error in evaluating θ would be about 1 °. further improvements are possible by noticing that for small values of x 0 2 + x e 2 , the interval ( x n , ax n ) could be empty . indeed , since x 0 2 + x e 2 cannot take values between 1 and 2 , it follows that the 16 intervals ## equ4 ## will all be empty . therefore , a list of the values of x o 2 + x e 2 in the order of increasing magnitude is shown in table 1 . it has been determined by experimentation that there were 42 values of the sum of squares under 100 . since a 42 = 5 . 5 ≦ 100 , it is possible to assign each of these 42 values a quantized value equal to itself ( i . e ., perfect quantization ), while at the same time providing better quantization for the values ≧ 100 . this follows because only 42 intervals would have been assigned so far , as opposed to 113 ( a 113 ≈ 100 ) intervals that would have been assigned had deviation from the logarithmic quantization rule not occurred . for values x 0 2 + x e 2 & lt ; 100 , the quantization intervals collapse to single points , the regions between those points being values that are impossible for x 0 2 + x e 2 to obtain . proceeding with the larger values of x 0 2 + x e 2 , because the sum of squares of integers follows a regular pattern , an advantage can be obtained by distorting the shape of the intervals from the logarithmic rule , thus finding better quantization values . this is performed for values of x o 2 + x e 2 up to 442 as shown in table 1 . for larger values , the benefits of deviating from the logarithmic quantization rules become increasing small and not worth pursuing . thus , the values from 445 ( the sum of squares following 442 ) up to 32 , 258 were divided into 160 intervals ( since 96 out of the 256 intervals had already been assigned ). by setting a 160 32 32 , 258 / 445 , it is determined that a = 1 . 027133 . an examination of table 1 reveals that for all 256 intervals , the ratio between the upper end of the interval to the lower end is ≦ a . the logarithmic rule of quantization assigns a geometric mean of the interval as the quantization value . however , since √ a ≈ 1 +( a / 2 ), the arithmetic mean is used instead for simplicity . the complete listing is shown in table 1 . with value of a = 1 . 027133 , or equivalent √ a = 1 . 0134757 , the maximum error in computing θ resulting from quantization may be found from equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ), and in this case , comes out to be 0 . 39 °. the prom implementation that carries out the method of the present invention is shown in fig3 a and 3b . two proms are used in the implementation . as shown in fig3 a , the inputs to the first prom 100 are x 0 and x e ( and later y 0 and y e , as shown in fig3 b ), and the output is an 8 - bit code indicating which of the 256 intervals x 0 2 + x e 2 falls into , and this is stored in latch 102 . the output is more accurate than having the quantized value itself at the output , since an 8 - bit representation of the quantized values will introduce substantial round - off errors for small values . the second prom 104 assigns the quantized value to the output code of the first prom for both the x and y inputs , evaluates the square root and the arc tangent , and a value for θ is provided at the output . the value of θ at the output is limited to 8 bit accuracy . therefore , if the 90 ° interval is quantized for θ into 256 values , a quantization interval of ( 90 / 256 )= 0 . 35 is obtained . this value is smaller than the 0 . 39 ° value obtained above . accordingly , this means that the maximum error in evaluating θ will be 0 . 7 °. if the quantization interval is increased to 0 . 40 °, this provides a guarantee that the maximum error in evaluating θ will be less than or equal to 0 . 40 °. thus , the present invention provides an accurate estimate of the carrier phase of the unmodulated preamble using only 2 proms and a latch . table 1______________________________________value of sum assignedof squares code______________________________________ 0 0 1 1 2 2 4 3 5 4 8 5 9 610 713 816 917 1018 1120 1225 1326 1429 1532 1634 1736 1837 1941 2145 2249 2350 2452 2553 2658 2761 2864 2965 3068 3172 3273 3374 3480 3581 3682 3785 3889 3990 4097 4198 42100 - 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