Digital data receiver including timing adjustment circuit

Abstract

Digital Data receiving apparatus includes means for adjusting the timing of the sampling instants. A phase controlled oscillator (PCO 19) provides timing signals for sampling the received signal and is controlled, at the commencement of a received signal, by a timing initialization circuit (17) responsive to repetitive phase alterations in a training sequence. The timing initialization circuit (17) includes a plurality of Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) circuits (23) responsive to frequencies dependent on the power spectral densities of the received signal, which received signal may be modulated at a normal rate or a fall-back rate. The DFT circuits (23) measure the correlation of locally-generated frequencies with the incoming samples for a predetermined number of such samples to produce a plurality of complex signals. A selector circuit (24) selects a pair of the complex signals dependent on the modulation rate. The provided pair of complex signals are multiplied in a complex conjugate multiplier (25) to produce a complex output signal which is fed to a phase segment detector (26) to provide a complex rotated signal. The complex rotated signal is converted in a phase-to-time-shift converter circuit (27) to a signal (m) for controlling the PCO 19.