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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 1996
Filed:
Feb. 03, 1995
Leif T Ostman, Sp.ang.nga, SE;
Magnus A Gustafsson, Sollentuna, SE;
Anders W Jarleholm, Sollentuna, SE;
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Stockholm, SE;
Abstract
A device and method are provided for fully realizing the precision gained internally from a conventional digital signal processor by generating a feed forward automatic gain control (AGC) signal. The feed forward AGC bit is indicative of the output of the digital signal processor being multiplied by a gain factor when the output from the digital filter included in the digital signal processor is below a threshold value. When the feed forward AGC signal is received by an inphase and quadrature (I/Q)-to-(logR/.phi.) converter connected to the digital signal processor, a corresponding value is subtracted from the radius component of the signal calculated by the (I/Q)-to-(logR/.phi.) converter. Because conventional digital signal processors have 16 IO bits, the feed forward AGC signal allows an input signal with a dynamic range and precision exceeding 16 bits to be transferred from the digital signal processor without loosing performance. As a result, a digital signal processor with a fewer number of IO bits than is nominally required for the precision and dynamic range of the output signal is implemented.