Radio receiver and intermediate frequency signal generation method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10505569-B2
Application number	US-201816154459-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 8, 2018
Priority date	Dec 8, 2017
Publication date	Dec 10, 2019
Grant date	Dec 10, 2019

Abstract

An IF filter band-limits an intermediate frequency signal outputted from a mixer. An AFC unit controls the oscillation frequency of a PLL so that the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is a predetermined frequency. When the AFC unit controls the oscillation frequency of the PLL, a band control unit controls the passing characteristic of the IF filter to the passing characteristic of a wide band, and after the completion of the control, controls the passing characteristic of the IF filter to the passing characteristic of a narrow band. A frequency correction unit refers to a filter information storage unit, and corrects the oscillation frequency controlled by the AFC unit according to the difference between the center frequency of the passband of the passing characteristic of the wide band and the center frequency of the passband of the passing characteristic of the narrow band.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A radio receiver comprising:
a first oscillator whose oscillation frequency is variable;
a quadrature demodulator including a frequency mixer mixing a radio frequency signal and an oscillation signal outputted from the first oscillator and generating an intermediate frequency signal having an intermediate frequency lower than the frequency of the radio frequency signal;
a band pass filter band-limiting the intermediate frequency signal by the passing characteristic selected from a plurality of passing characteristics;
a filter control unit controlling the passing characteristic of the band pass filter;
a filter information storage unit storing passing characteristic information including information representing the center frequency of the passband of each of the passing characteristics;
a frequency control unit controlling the oscillation frequency so that the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is a predetermined frequency; and
a frequency correction unit referring to the passing characteristic information and correcting the oscillation frequency controlled by the frequency control unit,
wherein in a state where the filter control unit controls the passing characteristic of the band pass filter to a first passing characteristic, the frequency control unit controls the oscillation frequency so that the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is the predetermined frequency,
wherein after the frequency control unit controls the oscillation frequency so that the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is the predetermined frequency, the filter control unit controls the passing characteristic of the band pass filter from the first passing characteristic to a second passing characteristic having a passband width narrower than the passband width of the first passing characteristic, and
wherein when the passing characteristic of the band pass filter is changed from the first passing characteristic to the second passing characteristic, the frequency correction unit refers to the filter information storage unit, and corrects the oscillation frequency controlled by the frequency control unit by the amount according to the difference between the center frequency of the first passing characteristic and the center frequency of the second passing characteristic.

2. The radio receiver according to claim 1 , further comprising:
an analog-to-digital convertor converting the intermediate frequency signal to a digital signal; and
a base band conversion unit converting the intermediate frequency signal converted to the digital signal to a base band signal.

3. The radio receiver according to claim 2 ,
wherein the frequency control unit controls the oscillation frequency based on the base band signal so that the frequency of the intermediate frequency signal is the predetermined frequency.

4. The radio receiver according to claim 2 ,
wherein the base band conversion unit includes:
a second oscillator whose oscillation frequency is variable; and
a complex multiplier complex-multiplying the oscillation signal outputted from the second oscillator and the intermediate frequency signal converted to the digital signal and outputting the base band signal.

5. The radio receiver according to claim 4 ,
wherein when the passing characteristic of the band pass filter is changed from the first passing characteristic to the second passing characteristic, the frequency correction unit further corrects the oscillation frequency of the second oscillator by the amount according to the difference between the center frequency of the first passing characteristic and the center frequency of the second passing characteristic.

6. The radio receiver according to claim 1 ,
wherein the frequency control unit controls the oscillation frequency at the start of communication.

7. The radio receiver according to claim 1 ,
wherein the frequency control unit controls the oscillation frequency at the switching of the channel of the radio frequency signal.

8. The radio receiver according to claim 1 ,
wherein the predetermined frequency is the same frequency as the center frequency of the passband of the first passing characteristic of the band pass filter.

9. The radio receiver according to claim 1 ,
wherein further, the frequency correction unit refers to the filter information storage unit, obtains the center frequency of the passband of the first passing characteristic, and corrects the oscillation frequency so that the intermediate frequency signal is equal to the center frequency of the passband of the first passing characteristic.

10. The radio receiver according to claim 1 ,
wherein the band pass filter is an analog filter including a resistor and a capacitor.

11. The radio receiver according to claim 10 ,
wherein at least one of the resistance value of the resistor and the capacitance of the capacitor is calibrated so that the passband width of each of the passing characteristics of the band pass filter is a predetermined band width.

Assignees

• Renesas Electronics Corp

Inventors

• Naito Wataru
• Izumi Noriyoshi
• Kijima Kazuhiro

Classifications

• H04B1/0007 Primary

  wherein the AD/DA conversion occurs at radiofrequency or intermediate frequency stage · CPC title

• H04B1/406

  with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes · CPC title

• H03H19/004

  Switched capacitor networks · CPC title

• H04B1/1036

  with automatic suppression of narrow band noise or interference, e.g. by using tuneable notch filters (H04B1/123 takes precedence; filter circuits H03H) · CPC title

• H03D7/166

  using two or more quadrature frequency translation stages · CPC title