Commissariat a L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives

Commissariat a L'energies Alternatives

Pierre Courouve

Jean-Baptiste Dore

Manuel Pezzin

A quadrature demodulator not requiring analog mixers. The demodulation is made using a first integrator and a second integrator which are controlled by square logic signals at twice the frequency of the carrier, the received signal being alternatively integrated by the first integrator and the second integrator over periods of time equal to a quarter period of time of the carrier frequency. The samples of the first and second integrators are sampled and subtracted from each other. The successive samples are combined in a first and a second combining module for providing in-phase and quadrature component samples. This demodulator can further be provided with a synchronization module IQ and a symbol synchronization module.

Quadrature demodulator for a very high bit rate RFID receiver

A RFID VHBR receiver including a quadrature digital demodulator, a symbol synchronization module at the baud rate and a PSK demodulator. The symbol synchronization module receives the in-phase and quadrature samples from the demodulator and extracts the components of the PSK symbols at the baud rate by selecting a decimation point in time. This synchronization is made by taking advantage of the particular structure of the preamble of the transmission frame in a RFID VHBR receiver.

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Pierre Courouve