Multirate receive device and method using a single adaptive interpolation filter

Claim 2

Device for receiving a source digital signal transmitted at one or more source symbol frequencies F s , comprising: means for sampling a received analog signal transposed into the baseband delivering an entirely demodulated sample signal, said sampling means operating at a sampling frequency F e complying with the generalized sampling condition, and a single filter module filtering said sampled signal, said filter module comprising: a digital filter controlled by a filter coefficient vectors, and means for determining said filter coefficients according to a determination criterion based on both (i) the ratio of said sampling frequency F e to said source symbol frequency F s , to interpolate said sampled signal, and (ii) an analysis of a transmission path, in order to limit interference introduced by said path.

Claim 3

Device according to claim 1 wherein said determination means comprise means for calculating a plurality of sets of filter coefficient vectors employed during initialization of said device, said sets of vectors being stored in storage means, each set of vectors corresponding to a given source symbol frequency F s , and means for selecting the most effective vector from the set of vectors corresponding to the source symbol frequency F s of the signal being received, according to the value of the ratio F e /F s and an estimate δτ of the transmission time-delay of said source signal.

Claim 4

Device according to claim 2 wherein said storage means comprise a random access memory.

Claim 5

Device according to claim 1 wherein said determination criterion is minimizing the mean square error.

Claim 6

Device according to claim 1 wherein said filter module comprises a series of Lt identical filter cells operating in parallel, where Lt is an integer representing a truncation length, the outputs of said filter cells being multiplexed to reconstruct the entirely demodulated digital signal.

Claim 7

Device according to claim 5 wherein each of said cells filters a portion of said sampled signal of duration Ts.Lt where Ts is the duration of a symbol of said source signal, said signal portions being offset to each other by a duration Ts.

Claim 8

Device according to claim 5 wherein the value of Lt is between 5 and 10.

Claim 9

Device according to claim 5 wherein said cells comprise accumulator means and multiplier means.

Claim 10

Device according to claim 1 wherein said filter module comprises memory means into which said sampled signal is introduced, a portion of said sampled signal being read and filtered every Ts, where Ts is the duration of a symbol of said source signal.

Claim 11

Device according to claim 1 wherein said determination means also determine the number of coefficients forming each of said filter coefficient vectors.

Claim 12

Device according to claim 1 wherein said determination means also determine the duration of the signal portion filtered by said filter module.

Claim 13

Device according to claim 1 wherein said filter module comprises: storage means comprising N j filter coefficient vectors, and Lt identical filter cells operating in parallel, and wherein said determination means carry out the following calculations: A(n)=A(n-1)+F.sub.e /F.sub.s +δ.sub.τ (n).Fe k.sub.1 (n)=VI(A(n)) k.sub.f (n)=k.sub.1 (n-L.sub.t)+1 J(n)=VI(N.sub.j.(A(n)-k.sub.1 (n))) where: A(n) is the value updated on each symbol a(n), (k f (n), k 1 (n)) defines the range of the samples of said sampled signal processed to determine the decision variable relating to the symbol a(n), J(n) is the number of the coefficient vector to be used to determine the decision variable relating to the symbol a(n), and δτ is an estimate of the relative timing corresponding to the algebraic difference between two successive timing estimates.

Claim 14

Device according to claim 1 wherein said single filter module is controlled by a timing signal supplied by a timing estimator fed with said sampled signal.

Claim 15

Device according to claim 13 wherein said timing estimator comprises filter means using the same filter coefficient vectors as said filter module.

Claim 16

Device according to claim 14 wherein a single clock signal corresponding to a sampling clock controls said filter module and said timing estimator.

Claim 17

Device according to claim 13 wherein said timing estimator is used periodically, at time intervals that are relatively widely spaced compared to the symbol time Ts.

Claim 18

Device according to claim 1 wherein a single clock signal corresponding to a sampling clock controls said filter module.

Claim 19

Method of receiving a source digital signal transmitted at a source symbol frequency F s selected from a plurality of possible source symbol frequencies, said method being performed subsequent to sampling a received analog signal transposed into the baseband and delivering a sampled signal and prior to decoding to reconstruct said source digital signal, said sampling being carried out at a fixed sampling frequency F e complying with Shannon's sampling theorem, said method using a single filter to filter said sampled signal and to supply a filtered signal for said decoding, comprising: an initialization step of determining a series of sets of filter coefficient vectors, each set corresponding to a given source symbol frequency F s , and each vector corresponding to a given receive situation, and a step of filtering a received source signal, comprising choosing the filter coefficient vector most accurately synchronized to correct the effects of a transmission path and/or of asynchronous sampling from the set of vectors corresponding to the source symbol frequency of said source signal.

Claim 20

Method of receiving a source digital signal transmitted at a source symbol frequency F s selected from a plurality of possible source symbol frequencies, said method being performed subsequent to sampling a received analog signal transposed into the baseband and delivering a sampled signal and prior to decoding to reconstruct said source digital signal, said sampling being carried out at a fixed sampling frequency F e complying with Shannon's sampling theorem, said method using a single filter to filter said sampled signal and to supply a filtered signal for said decoding, comprising: an initialization step of determining a series of sets of filter coefficient vectors, each set corresponding to a given source symbol frequency F s , and each vector corresponding to a given receive situation, and a step of filtering a received source signal, comprising choosing the filter coefficient vector most accurately synchronized to correct the effects of a transmission path and/or of asynchronous sampling from the set of vectors corresponding to the source symbol frequency of said source signal.

Claim 21

Method according to claim 18 wherein said initialization step comprises the following steps: determining a template of the transmission path corresponding to interfering signals likely to be encountered, and for each source symbol frequency F s : choosing a series of timing error estimate values τ, for each timing error estimate value: formal calculation of the filter function of the transmission path, excluding said single filter, calculating the noise at the input of said single filter, calculating the square error, in a quadratic form as a function of the coefficients of said single filter, differentiating said quadratic form and searching for corresponding zeros, and storing the coefficient vectors corresponding to said zeros.