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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2005
Jacques Meyer, Corenc, FR;
Jacques Meyer, Corenc, FR;
STMicroelectronics S.A., Montrouge, FR;
Abstract
A device for providing a digital error signal, for a timing correction loop of a digital demodulator for digital transmission by phase modulation or amplitude and phase modulation, the device successively receiving pairs of digital signals representative of the components of complex signals, and having circuitry for providing a difference signal representative of the difference between the modulus of the complex signal corresponding to the last received pair of digital signals and the modulus of the complex signal corresponding to the previously-received pair of digital signals; circuitry for providing a weighting factor which depends on the angle between the complex signal corresponding to the last received pair of digital signals and the complex signal corresponding to the previously-received pair of digital signals; and circuitry for providing the error signal proportional to the product of the difference signal and of the weighting factor.