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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2001

Filed:

Sep. 27, 1999
Applicant:
Inventors:

Dana Vincent Laub, Irvine, CA (US);

MohyEldeen Fouad Abdelgany, Irvine, CA (US);

Aravind Loke, Irvine, CA (US);

Assignee:

Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/08 ; H04L 2/720 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03L 7/08 ; H04L 2/720 ;
Abstract

A modulated signal is translated to a broadcast frequency by a translation phase lock loop. In the translation phase lock loop the output frequency, which is the broadcast frequency, is mixed with a translation frequency, and the resulting translated frequency is compared to the modulated signal. If an amplitude modulator is inserted into the translation loop, the phase comparison/feedback nature of the phase lock loop will tend to cancel the phase noise introduced in the amplitude modulation process. Any other circuits placed within the loop will tend to have any phase noise they introduce, which is in the phase lock loop bandwidth, canceled by the loop.


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