Analysis and Dynamic Range Enhancement of the Analog-to-Digital Interface in Multimode Radio Receivers

dc.contributor.authorFox, Brian L.en
dc.contributor.committeechairReed, Jeffrey H.en
dc.contributor.committeememberWoerner, Brian D.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBostian, Charles W.en
dc.contributor.departmentElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T20:48:33Zen
dc.date.adate1997-02-25en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T20:48:33Zen
dc.date.issued1997-02-01en
dc.date.rdate1997-02-25en
dc.date.sdate1998-07-24en
dc.description.abstractThe rapidly developing wireless market has spawned a multitude of different standards for cellular, PCS, and wireless data. To allow users the ability to access services conforming to disparate standards, multimode handsets capable of software reconfiguration are needed. These "software radios" are distinguished from their traditional counterparts by their strong reliance on digital channel filtering and demodulation which may be reprogrammed to receive different standards. In these radios, higher dynamic range is required from the analog portion, most notably, the analog-to-digital converter (ADC). This research examines through analysis and simulation the performance requirements of analog-to-digital converters for use in radios which are conformant to the AMPS, IS-54, GSM, and IS-95 cellular standards. Simulations reveal the degradation in performance under conditions of off-channel interference, fading, and converter nonlinearities. Included in this analysis is the design of automatic gain control (AGC) for narrowband and IS-95 spread spectrum systems to optimize quantization noise and distortion due to A/D overload. Lastly, methods for improving the dynamic range of the analog-to-digital interface such as nonuniform quantization, companding, and dither are presented. The development of a novel A/D using a direct-sequence pseudo-noise (DSPN) technique in conjunction with an asymmetrical quantizer is presented and compared with standard dither techniques. Advantages of this technique compared to ordinary ADC's include an almost one bit improvement in resolution, quantization noise whitening, elimination of A/D offsets, and the ability to simultaneously digitize multiple analog signals with a single quantizer. The technique requires no synchronization and is easily implemented.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.identifier.otheretd-113117281975580en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-113117281975580/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/35868en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartbfox.pdfen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectDigital Receiversen
dc.subjectA/D Conversionen
dc.subjectA/D Converter Distortionen
dc.subjectSoftware Radioen
dc.subjectCellular Radioen
dc.titleAnalysis and Dynamic Range Enhancement of the Analog-to-Digital Interface in Multimode Radio Receiversen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplineElectrical and Computer Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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