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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 1994
Filed:
Sep. 17, 1992
Yoshiaki Ishizeki, Kanagawa, JP;
NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A phase-error detecting circuit for detecting a phase error of an output signal of the VCO in a QDPSK demodulating circuit in accordance with the Costas loop method is disclosed. The phase-error detecting circuit comprises a first circuit which generates a first product (P.times.Q) of a first demodulated signal (P) and a second demodulated signal (Q) of a QPSK signal. A second circuit generates the difference of the squares (P.sup.2 -Q.sup.2) of the first and second demodulated signals. A third circuit receives both the first product (P.multidot.Q) generated by the first circuit and the difference (P.sup.2 -Q.sup.2) generated by the second circuit and generates the product of the first product (P.multidot.Q) and the difference (P.sup.2 -Q.sup.2). The first circuit includes a first quadratic multiplier for generating the first product. The second circuit includes second and third quadratic multipliers, a phase-reversing mechanism for reversing the phase of the signal (Q), and an adding mechanism. The second quadratic multiplier generates the square of the first signal (P.sup.2). The third quadratic multiplier multiplies the second signal and the phase-reversed second signal generating (-Q.sup.2 ). The adding mechanism adds (P.sup.2) and (-Q.sup.2).