Abstract: In a synchronous data receiver that includes a clock and an adaptive equalizer, a method and a device for effecting the initial adjustment of the clock during a turn-on period in the course of which the receiver is supplied with a known clock synchronization signal followed by a known equalizer training sequence. In accordance with the method of invention, the incoming signal is sampled and the samples so obtained are stored in a storage means. The synchronization signal and the beginning of the training sequence are successively detected. When the beginning of the training sequence is detected, the storage locations for the samples of the received synchronization signal are known and a control signal controlling the initial adjustment of the clock is derived from these samples, which are stored in predetermined locations in the storage means.

Abstract: This invention relates to automatic adaptive equalizers used in those data transmission systems which rely upon a double sideband-quadrature carrier (DSB-QC) modulation technique. The term DSB-QC modulation is used here in a broad sense and includes all systems wherein the transmitted signal can be represented by superimposing two amplitude modulated quadrature carriers. Thus, the term DSB-QC includes, in particular, phase-shift keying, amplitude phase-shift keying and quadrature amplitude modulation. More particularly, this invention relates to a method and a device for training an adaptive equalizer by means of an unknown data signal sent to the receiver, and is especially useful in a data transmission system configured as a multipoint network.

Abstract: A method and a device which, in a receiver forming part of a data transmission system using DSB-QC modulation, permit detecting the beginning of a pseudo-random sequence of symbols pertaining to a first set of two symbols when this sequence is preceded by a sequence of successive alternations between two symbols pertaining to a second set, with the first and second sets being such that the beginning of said pseudo-random sequence will initiate a reversal of the phase of the components of the frequency spectrum of said sequence of alternations. In accordance with the method of the present invention, the received signal is demodulated, the DC component of the demodulated signal is determined, and the energy of that DC component is measured. The time at which said energy drops below its average value is indicative of the beginning of the pseudo-random sequence. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, the DC component of the demodulated signal is determined by passing the signal through a lowpass filter.

Abstract: In a synchronous data transmission system wherein data transmission is achieved by modulating a carrier wave of frequency f.sub.c at the signaling rate 1/T, a method for determining the initial phase value by which the phase of the receiver clock is to be varied during an initial synchronization operation during which a synchronization signal, the spectrum of which includes two distinct lines at frequencies f.sub.1 =f.sub.c -1/2T and f.sub.2 =f.sub.c +1/2T, is transmitted comprising the steps of:(a) sampling the synchronization signal fed into the receiver at the rate 1/.tau. which is a multiple of the signaling rate, to provide a signal x(k.tau.) where k=a, 1, . . . ,(b) multiplying the signal X(.tau.) by itself to provide a signal s(k.tau.).(c) computing the coefficient C.sub.o, which corresponds to the frequency 1/T, of the discrete Fourier transform of signal s(k.tau.) from N samples thereof, the number N being determined from the resolution R=1/N.tau.

Abstract: A method and a device for training the equalizer of a receiver used in a QAM transmission system, by means of an unknown data signal, thereby enabling in particular said equalizer to be trained in the cases described above. In accordance with the method of the present invention, in a data receiver wherein, under normal operating conditions, the data is detected with respect to a first constellation, the equalizer is trained by detecting the data with respect to a second constellation which comprises fewer points than said first constellation and by adjusting the coefficients of the equalizer by means of an error signal produced as a result of the detection operation performed with respect to the second constellation.In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, the second constellation is comprised of those points of the first constellation that are farthest from its center.

Abstract: An adaptive phase detection method and apparatus is described which provides an estimated value .phi..sub.n of the phase .phi..sub.n transmitted at a signalling instant nT in a data transmission system using a M-phase PSK modulation technique. The system compensates for the effects of the intersymbol interference created by not more than one leading lobe of a succeeding signal and an arbitrary number of trailing lobes of preceding signals caused by the impulse response of the transmission channel. The method of the present invention mainly comprises the steps of:Determining at least two residual errors, each of which is obtained by subtracting from the phase .psi..sub.n received at signalling instant nT the sum of one of the possible values which can be taken on by the transmitted signal at each signalling instant, i.e.

Abstract: The invention provides a carrier detector for use in a multipoint communication system. In these systems a common communication link interconnects a master modem to a plurality of remote slave modems and a slave modem has to initialize itself without disturbing transmission of data between the master modem and another slave modem. Initialization is to be performed on such data, and the slave modem must be provided with a detector capable of detecting when data is being transmitted. The invention describes such a detector which is independent of the received signal power.The input signal is sampled at rate 6/T, T being the baud rate, and passed into two narrow band filters F1 and F2, centered at Nyquist frequencies f.sub.1 and f.sub.2, respectively.The sum of the outputs from filters F1 and F2 is sampled at a rate of 1/T for each of six different phases of the sampling rate 1/T. The energy of the six samples so obtained is measured.