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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 29, 1995
Filed:
Sep. 19, 1994
Richard A Bienz, Chandler, AZ (US);
Lansing M Carson, Chandler, AZ (US);
Marty K Siemon, Phoenix, AZ (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A digital single sideband modulator (10) includes a relatively complex CMOS NCO (14) that drives a relatively simple ECL frequency translator (30). The frequency translator (30) outputs a digital signal that is converted to analog by a D/A (44) and then filtered in a bandpass filter (46) having a pass band including a frequency of twice the NCO's clock frequency. The NCO (14) generates a modulated intermediate frequency NCO signal having quadrature components. The frequency translator (30) multiplies real and imaginary components of the NCO signal by real and imaginary components of digitized SIN, COS sampling functions (48, 50). The resulting products are added together. The adding operation is performed by a multiplexer (32), whose selection input is driven at twice the carrier frequency, and the multiplying operations are performed by a selective negation circuit (34), that is driven at the carrier frequency.