Cselt-centro Studi E Laboratori Telecomunicazioni S.p.a.

Enrico Impallomeni

Roberto Montagna

Giuseppe Giandonato

Francesco Gandini

At a subscriber station AU communicating with a central office of a data network, a logic unit UM includes a processing subunit UE which, under the control of a microprogrammed subunit UC comprising a microinstruction memory MM and a sequencer SQ, digitally demodulates an incoming carrier and synthesizes an outgoing carrier modulated in the DPSK (differential-phase-shift keying) mode. The modulation is effected by multiplying stored bits of an outgoing signal, read out from a data memory MD, with bits representing digitized sine and cosine samples of the carrier wave obtained from a calculator AL within subunit UE, followed by conversion to analog form and filtering; demodulation is carried out in a similar manner, after conversion of analog samples of the incoming carrier to digital form, by multiplying the resulting bits with those of the calculated sine and cosine samples. The sampling instants are established by a timing signal T2 digitally synchronized with the central-office clock through a phase-locking loop including an adjustable frequency divider DP controlled by an error signal from the calculator AL, emitted when the peak-indicating derivative sample has an absolute value exceeding a predetermined threshold.

Terminal equipment for data-transmission network including digitally

A signal receiver of a QPSK data-transmission system comprises two noncoherent demodulators feeding digitized in-phase and quadrature components to a pair of transversal filters whose coefficients are read out, during successive keying intervals, from a read/write memory accessed by an arithmetic unit which generates corrective terms updating these coefficients. A comparator in the output of each filter detects estimated phase jumps between delayed and undelayed filtered samples of each signal component and delivers them to a decision circuit as well as to an error detector which also receives quantized output signals from the decision circuit to produce two error signals fed to the arithmetic unit; the latter further receives the delayed and undelayed filtered samples as well as ancillary data temporarily stored in these filters to calculate the corrective terms.

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Turin, Italy

Enrico Impallomeni