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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 1998
Filed:
Jan. 29, 1997
Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd., Salo, FI;
Abstract
Disclosed is a method and a device for compensating the DC offset (dU) of a D/A converter (2), particularly in the base frequency modulator of a mobile phone. The method and the device use an error correction register (5), whose value is changed on the basis of the DC offset, and which is added to each signal sample to be converted for compensating the DC offset. The value of the error correction register (5) is changed in a testing mode so that a preset control value is fed into the D/A converter (2), corresponding to the zero voltage of the output of an ideal D/A converter; the voltage values of outputs of a differential output pair (2a, 2b) arranged in connection with the D/A converter (2) are compared to verify the polarity of the voltage difference (dU) of the outputs and the polarity, i.e. the sign, of a relative DC offset; and, on the basis of the polarity of the voltage difference (dU), the value of the error correction register (5) is either decreased or increased by one from the preset initial value which is preferably zero.