Measuring reception quality of a Differential Manchester Encoded signal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11799599-B2
Application number	US-202217676158-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 20, 2022
Priority date	Feb 25, 2021
Publication date	Oct 24, 2023
Grant date	Oct 24, 2023

Abstract

A receiver includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a signal including symbols carrying bit values in respective symbol intervals, and to convert the received signal into a serial sequence of digital samples, the received signal being modulated using a Differential Manchester Encoding (DME) scheme that (i) represents a first bit value by a first symbol type having a level transition in the corresponding symbol interval and (ii) represents a second bit value by a second symbol type having a constant level in the corresponding symbol interval. The processor is configured to derive an error signal from the digital samples, and to produce a quality measure of the received signal based on the derived error signal.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A receiver, comprising:
an interface, configured to receive a signal comprising symbols carrying bit values in respective symbol intervals, and to convert the received signal into a serial sequence of digital samples, wherein the received signal being modulated using a Differential Manchester Encoding (DME) scheme that (i) represents a first bit value by a first symbol type having a level transition in the corresponding symbol interval and (ii) represents a second bit value by a second symbol type having a constant level in the corresponding symbol interval; and
a processor, configured to:
filter the digital samples by a first matching filter that is matched to the first symbol type and calculate absolute values of samples output by the first matching filter so as to produce a first absolute-value filtered signal;
filter the digital samples by a second matching filter that is matched to the second symbol type and calculate absolute values of samples output by the second matching filter so as to produce a second absolute-value filtered signal;
derive an error signal based on a difference signal calculated according to a difference between the first absolute-value filtered signal and the second absolute-value filtered signal; and
produce a quality measure of the received signal based on the derived error signal.

2. The receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to calculate the error signal for a given symbol interval by calculating a difference between a value of the difference signal for the given symbol interval and a maximal or minimal achievable value of the difference signal.

3. The receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the interface is configured to receive the signal over a single-pair link in accordance with a 10BASE-T1S specification.

4. The receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the interface is configured to receive the signal from an automotive communication network.

5. The receiver according to claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to calculate an absolute-value error signal from the error signal, to filter the absolute-value error signal for producing a filtered absolute-value error signal using a smoothing filter, and to convert the filtered absolute-value error signal into the quality measure.

6. The receiver according to claim 5 , wherein the processor is configured to convert the filtered absolute-value error signal into the quality measure using a lookup table.

7. The receiver according to claim 5 , wherein the quality measure is an average quality measure, and wherein the processor is configured to filter the absolute-value error signal using a Low Pass Filter (LPF).

8. The receiver according to claim 5 , wherein the quality measure is a peak quality measure, and wherein the processor is configured to filter the absolute-value error signal by selecting peak values of the absolute-value error signal and averaging among the selected peak values.

9. A method for communication, comprising:
receiving a signal comprising symbols carrying bit values in respective symbol intervals, and converting the received signal into a serial sequence of digital samples, wherein the received signal being modulated using a Differential Manchester Encoding (DME) scheme that (i) represents a first bit value by a first symbol type having a level transition in the corresponding symbol interval and (ii) represents a second bit value by a second symbol type having a constant level in the corresponding symbol interval;
filtering the digital samples by a first matching filter that is matched to the first symbol type and calculating absolute values of samples output by the first matching filter so as to produce a first absolute-value filtered signal;
filtering the digital samples by a second matching filter that is matched to the second symbol type and calculating absolute values of samples output by the second matching filter so as to produce a second absolute-value filtered signal;
deriving an error signal based on a difference signal calculated according to a difference between the first absolute-value filtered signal and the second absolute-value filtered signal; and
producing a quality measure of the received signal based on the derived error signal.

10. The method according to claim 9 , wherein producing the error signal comprises calculating the error signal for a given symbol interval by calculating a difference between a value of the difference signal for the given symbol interval and a maximal or minimal achievable value of the difference signal.

11. The method according to claim 9 , wherein receiving the signal comprises receiving the signal over a single-pair link in accordance with a 10BASE-T1S specification.

12. The method according to claim 9 , wherein receiving the signal comprises receiving the signal from an automotive communication network.

13. The method according to claim 9 , wherein the producing a quality measure comprises calculating an absolute-value error signal from the error signal, filtering the absolute-value error signal for producing a filtered absolute-value error signal using a smoothing filter, and converting the filtered absolute-value error signal into the quality measure.

14. The method according to claim 13 , wherein converting the filtered absolute-value signal comprises converting the filtered absolute-value error signal into the quality measure using a lookup table.

15. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the quality measure is an average quality measure, and wherein filtering the absolute-value error signal comprises filtering the absolute-value error signal using a Low Pass Filter (LPF).

16. The method according to claim 13 , wherein the quality measure is a peak quality measure, and wherein filtering the absolute-value error signal comprises selecting peak values of the absolute-value error signal and averaging among the selected peak values.

17. A receiver, comprising:
an interface, configured to receive a signal comprising symbols carrying bit values in respective symbol intervals, and to convert the received signal into a serial sequence of digital samples, wherein the received signal being modulated using a Differential Manchester Encoding (DME) scheme that (i) represents a first bit value by a first symbol type having a level transition in the corresponding symbol interval and (ii) represents a second bit value by a second symbol type having a constant level in the corresponding symbol interval; and
a processor, configured to:
derive an absolute-value error signal from the digital samples; and
produce a peak quality measure of the received signal based on the derived error signal, by selecting peak values of the absolute-value error signal and averaging the selected peak values.

Assignees

• Marvell Asia Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Dai Shaoan
• Wu Xing
• Sun Wensheng
• Zhu Liang

Classifications

• H04L1/206 Primary

  for modulated signals · CPC title

• H03M7/3044

  Conversion to or from differential modulation with several bits only, i.e. the difference between successive samples being coded by more than one bit, e.g. differential pulse code modulation [DPCM] (H03M7/3004 takes precedence; voice coding G10L19/00; image coding H04N19/00) · CPC title

• H04L1/0036

  arrangements specific to the receiver · CPC title

• H04B3/46 Primary

  Monitoring; Testing · CPC title

• H04B17/309

  Measuring or estimating channel quality parameters · CPC title