Patents Assigned to Philsar Electronics, Inc.
  • Patent number: 6339621
    Abstract: A One Bit Digital Quadrature Vector Modulator (DQVM) and a method of generating single sideband output signals are useful for a wide range of radio frequency, signal processing and wireless applications. The DQVM simplifies the necessary digital multiplication by using noise shaped one bit versions of both the baseband IB and QB signals to be modulated and the ILO and QLO modulating signals. The one bit DQVM enables a much faster digital implementation of the digital quadrature vector modulation function than can be achieved with conventional multi-bit digital techniques. In addition the single sideband upconversion of the DQVM achieves high suppression of the unwanted sideband by applying an offset to one of the low speed input samples. Digital vector modulators are an improvement over conventional analog vector modulators as they are not subject to the amplitude and phase matching problems inherent in analog vector modulators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2002
    Assignee: Philsar Electronics, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Cojocaru, Theodore Varelas, Mark Cloutier, Luc Lussier