International Business Machines Corporation

Michel Y Quintin

Jacques Belloc

Dominique N Godard

Emile Morlec

Evangelos Stavros Eleftheriou

Claude R Galand

Pierre R Chevillat

Emmanuel Lancon

Daniel Pilost

Andre Milewski

Dietrich G Maidwald

A digital filter providing output samples at a rate B while input samples are being provided at a rate A. The filter impulse response h(t) is sampled at a rate P=a.A=b.B, with P being the lowest common multiple to A and B, to derive Np filter coefficients therefrom. The coefficients are arranged into 'a' sets of Np/a coefficients and stored. Output samples are then computed by feeding input samples Sn at incoming rate while permutating the sets of coefficients and generating output samples at the output rate.

Digital filter sampling rate conversion method and device

The adaptive loop gain phase filter of the invention utilizes an averaged value of the phase error at each baud time instead of the phase error for generating the value of the frequency shift. Such an averaged value is obtained by accumulating in accumulator ACCU2 (34) the phase error at each baud time after multiplying it by a factor K.sub.O, and is provided either very M baud time when a counter (38) preset at M reaches O, or if the contents of accumulator (34) reach a predetermined limit value. The value of the frequency shift which is accumulated in accumulator ACCU1 (14) is every accurate and enables the phase disturbance such as line breaks and phase hits to be overcome.

Adaptive loop gain phase filter

In data transmission wherein a transmitting modem transmits data signals to a receiving modem via a telephone line, the process of rotating, in the transmitting modem, the phase of the point of the constellation resulting from a group of data bits by a predetermined phase value, and then rotating, after a predetermined delay in the receiving modem, the phase of the estimated point resulting from the transformation of the analog signal by the opposite of said predetermined phase value, and calculating the mean-squared error between the rotated point and the estimated point of the constellation the error being used to determine whether the receiving modem is out of synchronization.

Process of synchronizing a receiving modem after a training on data

Modem receiving from/transmitting to a DTE data bits at a rate DR and adapted for operating at a modulation rate MR in an environment operating at a basic rate BR. In the receiving way, it comprises a first means for converting a number X of samples received at a frequency FS into a number X times MR/BR of samples before processing these samples by the signal processor whereby the processing results in DR/BR words of DR/MR bits, and second means for converting the DR/BR words into DR/MR words of DR/BR bits to be transmitted to the DTE. For the transmitting way the first and second converting means, are the same means but run in the reverse order. The result is that such an adapted modem behaves as a modem operating at a modulation rate MR on a periodic process interval of DR/(BR times MR) seconds.

Modem having a software-adapted modulation rate

Echo cancelling device for cancelling echoes affecting the incoming signal received over a two-wire telephone line, comprising near echo canceller 20, far echo canceller 22 and an adder 26 providing the estimated echo signal. A circuit path including a digital-to-analog converter 48 for converting the digital estimated echo signal into analog form and a subtracter 52 for subtracting the resulting analog signal from the analog incoming signal, is separated from a circuit path including an analog-to-digital converter 42 for converting the analog incoming signal into digital form and a subtracter 44 for subtracting the digital estimated echo signal from the resulting digital incoming signal thereby providing a digital signal used as a control signal for adjusting the echo cancellers 20 and 22.

Echo cancelling device for data transmission over two-wire lines

Echo cancelling above for providing an echo-free incoming data signal with a phase-roll tracking device comprising phase rotating means (58) for rotating the phase of the generated echo signal by a value X which is the estimated phase-roll value, thereby providing a complex phase-roll corrected echo signal a multiplier (124) for multiplying the error signal; between the incoming signal and the real component (112) of the phase-roll corrected echo signal by the imaginary component (120) of the same signal, thereby providing a value Y function of the variation of the phase-roll; a phase-roll variation estimator (128) providing an estimation Z of the phase-roll variation in half duplex mode or in full duplex mode, in response to value Y; and a phase filter (126) providing the estimated phase-roll value X in response to the estimation Z.

Echo cancelling device with phase-roll correction

In a synchronous data receiver that includes a clock and an adaptive equalizer, a method and a device for effecting the initial adjustment of the clock during a turn-on period in the course of which the receiver is supplied with a known clock synchronization signal followed by a known equalizer training sequence. In accordance with the method of invention, the incoming signal is sampled and the samples so obtained are stored in a storage means. The synchronization signal and the beginning of the training sequence are successively detected. When the beginning of the training sequence is detected, the storage locations for the samples of the received synchronization signal are known and a control signal controlling the initial adjustment of the clock is derived from these samples, which are stored in predetermined locations in the storage means. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, said control signal is derived from the samples that precede the G samples immediately followed by the beginning of the training sequence, the value of G being such that those samples which are in the vicinity of the transition region between the synchronization signal and the training sequence will not be used.

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Michel Y Quintin