Automatic gain control device and method, power adjusting device and radio transmitting system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9190972-B2
Application number	US-201313755925-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 31, 2013
Priority date	Jan 31, 2012
Publication date	Nov 17, 2015
Grant date	Nov 17, 2015

Abstract

An automatic gain control device includes: a variable gain adjusting unit, for adjusting an input signal by a variable gain and outputting an adjustment result; an analog-digital converting unit, for performing analog-digital conversion on the adjustment result to obtain an analog-digital conversion result; and a gain determining unit, for determining a distribution status over a predetermined period of time of a maximum or a minimum of the analog-digital conversion result, comparing the distribution status with a first distribution condition, and if the distribution status meets the first distribution condition, then keeping the variable gain unchanged, otherwise changing the variable gain and determining newly a distribution status until the newly determined distribution status meets a second distribution condition which is at least as strict as the first distribution condition.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An Automatic Gain Control, AGC, device, comprising:
a variable gain adjusting unit, for adjusting an input signal by a variable gain and outputting an adjustment result;
an analog-digital converting unit, for performing analog-digital conversion on the adjustment result to obtain an analog-digital conversion result; and
a gain determining unit, for determining a distribution status over a predetermined period of time of a maximum or a minimum of the analog-digital conversion result, comparing the distribution status with a first distribution condition, and if the distribution status meets the first distribution condition, then keeping the variable gain corresponding to the distribution status unchanged, or if the distribution status does not meet the first distribution condition, then changing the variable gain corresponding to the distribution status and determining newly a distribution status until the newly determined distribution status meets a second distribution condition which is the same as or stricter than the first distribution condition;
wherein the distribution status is an occurrence probability over the predetermined period of time of the minimum of the analog-digital conversion result, or an occurrence probability over the predetermined period of time of the maximum of the analog-digital conversion result.

2. The AGC device according to claim 1 , wherein:
the gain determining unit obtains the variable gain, which causes the distribution status to meet the second distribution condition, by a one-dimension searching algorithm.

3. The AGC device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a cost function calculating unit, for calculating a cost function value according to the analog-digital conversion result.

4. The automatic gain control device according to claim 3 , wherein:
the cost function value is in direct correlation with the square of the analog-digital conversion result.

5. The AGC device according to claim 3 , wherein:
the cost function calculating unit calculates the cost function value according to the analog-digital conversion result and a revised gain, and the gain determining unit determines a new revised gain each time the variable gain, which causes the distribution status to meet the second distribution condition, is obtained, in order to keep the cost function values, which are calculated before and after the variable gain is obtained, unchanged.

6. The AGC device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the gain determining unit stores the cost function value calculated before the variable gain, which causes the distribution status to meet the second distribution condition, is obtained, and determines the new revised gain according to the analog-digital conversion result obtained after the variable gain is obtained and to the stored cost function value.

7. The AGC device according to claim 5 , wherein:
the cost function calculating unit operates only during the time when the gain determining unit keeps the variable gain unchanged.

8. A power adjusting device with an adaptive scalar pre-distorter, wherein the AGC device according to claim 3 is on a feedback branch, for updating adaptively parameters of the adaptive scalar pre-distorter, of the power adjusting device, and the AGC device takes a feedback signal as the input signal and outputs the cost function value for updating adaptively the parameters.

9. A radio transmitting system, using the power adjusting device according to claim 8 to adjust in power a signal from an input source, and transmit the adjusted signal.

10. An Automatic Gain Control, AGC method, comprising:
adjusting an input signal by a variable gain and outputting an adjustment result;
performing analog-digital conversion on the adjustment result in order to obtain an analog-digital conversion result; and
determining a distribution status over a predetermined period of time of a maximum or a minimum of the analog-digital conversion result, comparing the distribution status with a first distribution condition, and if such distribution status meets the first distribution condition, then keeping the variable gain corresponding to the distribution status unchanged, or if such distribution status does not meet the first distribution condition, then changing the variable gain corresponding to the distribution status and determining newly a distribution status until the newly determined distribution status meets a second distribution condition which is the same as or stricter than the first distribution condition;
wherein the distribution status is an occurrence probability over the predetermined period of time of the maximum of the analog-digital conversion result, or an occurrence probability over the predetermined period of time of the minimum of the analog-digital conversion result.

11. The AGC method according to claim 10 , wherein:
the variable gain, which causes the distribution status to meet the second distribution condition, is obtained by a one-dimension searching algorithm.

12. The AGC method according to claim 10 , further including:
calculating a cost function value according to the analog-digital conversion result.

13. The AGC method according to claim 12 , wherein:
the cost function value is in direct correlation with the square of the analog-digital conversion result.

14. The AGC method according to claim 12 , wherein:
the cost function value is calculated according to the analog-digital conversion result and a revised gain, and a new revised gain is determined each time the variable gain, which causes the distribution status to meet the second distribution condition, is obtained, in order to keep the cost function values, which are calculated before and after the variable gain is obtained, unchanged.

15. The AGC method according to claim 14 , wherein:
the cost function value, calculated before the variable gain which causes the distribution status to meet the second distribution condition is obtained, is stored, and the new revised gain is determined according to the analog-digital conversion result obtained after the variable gain is obtained and to the stored cost function value.

16. The automatic gain control method according to claim 12 , wherein:
the cost function value is calculated only during the time when that the variable gain is kept unchanged.

Assignees

• Fujitsu Ltd

Inventors

• Li Hui
• Iwamatsu Takanori
• Zhou Jianmin

Classifications

• H03G3/20 Primary

  Automatic control ({H03G3/005 takes precedence;} combined with volume compression or expansion H03G7/00) · CPC title

• H03G3/3042 Primary

  in modulators, frequency-changers, transmitters or power amplifiers · CPC title

• H04L27/3809

  Amplitude regulation arrangements · CPC title

• H03M1/185

  the determination of the range being based on more than one digital output value, e.g. on a running average, a power estimation or the rate of change · CPC title

• H03F1/3247

  using feedback acting on predistortion circuits (H03F1/3264 takes precedence) · CPC title