WO1996031970A1 - A demodulator for transmission systems and use of such a demodulator - Google Patents

A demodulator for transmission systems and use of such a demodulator Download PDF

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WO1996031970A1
WO1996031970A1 PCT/DK1996/000162 DK9600162W WO9631970A1 WO 1996031970 A1 WO1996031970 A1 WO 1996031970A1 DK 9600162 W DK9600162 W DK 9600162W WO 9631970 A1 WO9631970 A1 WO 9631970A1
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Jasper B. Knudsen
Leif Köhne
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  • the invention concerns a demodulator for use in a re ⁇ DCver for transmission systems and adapted to demodulate received signals according to a coherent principle in a first mode and to demodulate received signals according to a non-coherent principle in a second mode.
  • Said channel equalization may be performed using a plu- rality of known equalization principles. These equaliza ⁇ tion or demodulation principles may be divided into co ⁇ herent and non-coherent ones.
  • the refer ⁇ ence frequency of the receiver is so precise compared to the reference oscillator in the corresponding transmitter that it is possible to use a so-called coherent transmit- ter for equalizing the received signal.
  • This receiver type requires that frequency and phase of the carrier wave of the received signal are known and constant for a given block of received data.
  • the reference frequency In other transmission systems, such as e.g. DECT, how ⁇ ever, the reference frequency is not, or not always, so precise from the transmitter side that the receiver can use the coherent principle, it being therefore necessary to use a so-called non-coherent principle.
  • the receiver does not know the exact frequency and phase of the re ⁇ ceived data block and moreover cannot expect that fre ⁇ quency and shape are constant through a whole data block.
  • Receivers of the non-coherent type are usually not resis- tant to multipath propagation, which results in impaired quality of the data signals received.
  • US Patent Specification 4 583 048 discloses a receiver wherein, in a coherent system, a training sequence is de ⁇ modulated non-coherently at the start of each block to enable adjustment of the phase, so that the rest cf the block may be demodulated coherently. However, this is merely done to ensure that the coherent demodulation can take place, and the receiver is not capable of demodulat ⁇ ing signals which can just be demodulated non-coherently.
  • the invention provides a demodulator which, by means of the same hardware, is capable of receiving data informa ⁇ tion and demodulating these according to the coherent principle and the non-coherent principle, respectively.
  • a demodulator which, by means of the same hardware, is capable of receiving data informa ⁇ tion and demodulating these according to the coherent principle and the non-coherent principle, respectively.
  • it is a so-called multimode receiver which will be considerably cheaper to manufacture than a receiver con ⁇ taining two separate receiver circuits.
  • the re ⁇ barrever will have a considerably higher quality in certain physical surroundings for the transmission systems which cannot (or not always) use coherent demodulation, and in these situations a longer range of the receiver is moreo ⁇ ver achieved.
  • the demodulator comprises a differential detector, an equal ⁇ izer and a switch adapted to couple the received signals directly to the equalizer in the first mode of the de ⁇ modulator and to couple the received signals to the equalizer via the differential detector in the second mode of the demodulator.
  • the receiver can receive data information by means of two different trans ⁇ mission systems, or that, in a system where the received signals are not always sufficiently good for demodulation to take place according to the coherent principle, the receiver can demodulate according to the coherent prin ⁇ ciple when this is possible and switch to the non-coher ⁇ ent principle when coherent demodulation is not possible.
  • the demodulator is adapted to receive data which are transmitted in blocks of finite length, each said block containing a training sequence which is known be ⁇ forehand by the receiver, and the equalizer here com ⁇ prises a Viterbi equalizer.
  • the demodulator is adapted to receive data signals from various transmission systems in each of the said modes, it is ensured, as mentioned, that the same receiver can serve as a receiver on two or more different transmission systems.
  • An expedient embodiment of this receiver is adapted to receive data signals asso ⁇ ciated with transmission systems using modulation forms of MSK type, since this is a widely used modulation form.
  • the demodulator may be adapted to receive data signals associated with a mobile telephone system of e.g. GSM or DCS/PCS type in the first mode, i.e. when the demodulator operates as a coherent demodulator.
  • the demodula- tor may be adapted to receive data signals associated with e.g. a transmission system of DECT type in the sec- ond mode, i.e. when the demodulator operates as a non-co ⁇ herent demodulator. Owing to the extensive use of these transmission types a receiver capable of receiving sig ⁇ nals of these types will be extremely expedient.
  • the de ⁇ modulator is arranged such that switching between coher- ent and non-coherent demodulation is controlled by sig ⁇ nals received from the transmitter side of the transmis ⁇ sion system, so that it is the received signal type which decides whether coherent or non-coherent demodulation takes place.
  • switching between coherent and non-coherent demodulation is controlled by means of a detector capable of detecting whether the received sig ⁇ nals are suitable for coherent demodulation, it is en- sured that the receiver itself decides on the basis of the quality of the received signals whether to use coher ⁇ ent or non-coherent demodulation. This may be relevant either if the signal quality from the transmitter varies, or where transmitters having a sufficient quality for co- herent demodulation to be used in the receivers as well as transmitters which do not meet this requirement, are used within the same system.
  • fig. 1 shows two transmitters of different type and a re- DCver in which the invention may be applied
  • fig. 2 shows the structure of a data receiver
  • fig. 3 shows an example of a differential detector
  • fig. 4 shows an example of a time discrete channel model
  • fig. 5 shows a setup for coherent Viterbi equalizer.
  • fig. 6 shows a setup for a non-coherent Viterbi equal ⁇ izer
  • fig. 7 shows an example of a multimode Viterbi equalizer.
  • Fig. 1 shows a system having a receiver 11 capable of re ⁇ ceiving data information from two different transmission systems, and two transmitters 1, 2 representing the two different systems.
  • the transmitter 1 may be a transmitter for a mobile telephone system of GSM or DCS 1800/DCS 1900 type.
  • the transmitter 2 may be a transmitter for a DECT transmission system.
  • Data are transmitted wirelessly in blocks from the two transmitters through a time-varying transmission channel to the receiver.
  • the transmitted signal is subjected to noise as well as distortion. It is therefore necessary to perform a so-called channel equalization on the received signal in the receiver.
  • This channel equalization is performed to equalize the distor ⁇ tion applied in the transmission channel and in the radio frequency receiver of the receivers.
  • Data are transmitted in blocks of finite duration between the transmitters 1, 2 and the receiver 11.
  • Each data block contains a se ⁇ quence, a so-called training sequence, which is known to the receiver, and which enables the receiver to estimate the pulse response of the transmission channel, i.e. from the modulator of the transmitter to the demodulator of the receivers.
  • the transmitter 1 from a GSM or DCS system contains a bit source 3 which supplies the data to be transmitted, and a radio frequency modulator 4 which modulates the data sig ⁇ nal by means of an oscillator 5 for the reference fre ⁇ quency. The modulated data signal is then emitted from an antenna * 6.
  • the transmitter 2 from a DECT system similarly contains a bit source 7, a radio frequency modulator 8, a reference frequency oscillator 9 and an antenna 10.
  • the receiver 11 receives data signals on the antenna 12, following which they are first processed in a radio fre- quency part 13 capable of receiving signals of GSM/DCS as well as DECT type.
  • the radio frequency part 13 contains the reference frequency oscillator 14 of the receiver and a phase shift 15 ensuring that the data signals appear in a complex form on the output of the radio frequency part. This is shown in the figure by the two signals I, Q. Suitable amplification, filtering and mixing are per ⁇ formed in the radio frequency part to ensure sufficient selectivity and signal/noise ratios until the further processing of the data signals is performed.
  • the data signals are passed from the radio frequency part 13 to the data receiver 16 in which the channel equalization and the detection proper take place.
  • the radio frequency part 13 and the data receiver 16 are controlled by a con ⁇ trol circuit 17.
  • Fig. 2 shows the structure of the data receiver 16.
  • the complex signals I, Q are fed to a differential detector 18, a switch 19 and a channel estimator 20.
  • the signals may be fed via the switch 19 either di ⁇ rectly or via the differential detector 18 to an equal- izer 21, which may e.g. be a Viterbi equalizer or another equalizer of MLSE type (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Esti ⁇ mator) .
  • the channel estimator 20 finds the instantaneous transmission channel pulse response, which is then used by the equal- izer 21 to perform equalization, thereby allowing the re ⁇ ceived data information to be estimated.
  • the reference frequency of the re- ceivers is so precise compared to the reference oscilla ⁇ tor in the corresponding transmitter that it will be pos ⁇ sible to use a so-called coherent receiver for equalizing the signal received.
  • This receiver type requires that frequency and phase of the carrier wave of the received signal are known and constant for a block of received data.
  • a so-called Viterbi equal ⁇ izer may be used, it being understood that the receiver has full knowledge of the frequency and phase of the re ⁇ ceived carrier wave.
  • the channel pulse response is first estimated in the channel estimator 20 on the basis of the known sequence of the signal which is received. This estimate of the channel distortion is then used in the unit 21, which performs equalization and estimation of the bits which are received.
  • the coherent version of the data receiver does not use the differential detector, as mentioned, and the complex baseband signal is therefore just bypassed, as shown.
  • the reference frequency is not so precise as to enable the receiver to employ the coherent principle. Therefore, a so-called non-coherent principle is used.
  • the reason is that the reference oscillator in the DECT transmitter 2 according to the DECT specification has very lenient frequency stability requirements, so that it cannot be expected that it is appropriate to implement a coherent receiver solution.
  • the basis of the non-coherent principle is that the receiver does not know the exact frequency and phase of the received block, and that fre ⁇ quency and phase are not necessarily constant through a whole block.
  • Fig. 3 shows an example of how the differential detector 18 may be constructed.
  • the detector contains a time delay element 22 and an ele ⁇ ment 23 which performs complex conjugation of the sig ⁇ nals, which are still in a complex form (I, Q) .
  • the re ⁇ sulting signal is then mixed with the original signal in the mixing stage 24.
  • various dif- ferential detectors are available, and the detector shown in fig. 3 is merely an example of such a differential de ⁇ tector.
  • the received signal is fed via the switch 19 to the equalizer 21, which is capable of performing so-called differential Viterbi equalization of the received signal by means of the estimated channel pulse response.
  • This type of equalization is basically the same as the differential one, but with a few modifications because of the inclu ⁇ sion of the differential detector in the receiver chain.
  • the pulse response of the channel is esti ⁇ mated in this type of transmission systems by means of a special bit sequence in the transmitted blocks. This makes it possible to generate a so-called time discrete channel model in the receiver which describes the influ- ence of the channel on the transmitted signal.
  • This fig ⁇ ures shows an example of an estimated channel pulse re ⁇ sponse with L+l taps, called ho, ..., h L -
  • the values 1 ⁇ are the symbols transmitted from the transmitter, which may generally take on complex values. It is assumed that I k can take on a total of M different values.
  • This de ⁇ scription of the channel model means that it can be de ⁇ scribed as a state machine, in which the states can take on the values I k - 2 , •••, J k- L ) • This results in a state machine having a total of M states described by various combinations of the symbols I in the state de ⁇ scription Sj ⁇ -
  • Fig. 5 shows the setup of input signal to the coherent Viterbi equalizer
  • fig. 6 correspondingly shows the setup for input signal to the non-coherent Viterbi equal ⁇ izer.
  • I k ( h 0 'I k +h l 'I k-l) ' ( h 0- I k-l +h I k-2)*
  • the coherent and non-coherent Viterbi equalizations may be implemented such that just a single block must be capable of making calculations correspond ⁇ ing to either the coherent or the non-coherent receiver solution, while all the other blocks are common to the two solutions.
  • the block "generation of reference received signal" must be capable of handling both the coherent setup and the non-coherent setup shown in figs. 5 and 6. All other blocks are the same for the two receiver types.

Abstract

A demodulator (16) for use in a receiver for transmission systems is adapted to demodulate received signals according to a coherent principle in a first mode and to demodulate received signals according to a non-coherent principle in a second mode. The demodulator comprises a differential detector (18), an equalizer (21) and a switch (19) adapted to couple the received signals directly to the equalizer (21) in the first mode of the demodulator and to couple the received signals to the equalizer (21) via the differential detector (18) in the second mode of the demodulator.

Description

A demodulator for transmission systems and use of such a demodulator
The invention concerns a demodulator for use in a re¬ ceiver for transmission systems and adapted to demodulate received signals according to a coherent principle in a first mode and to demodulate received signals according to a non-coherent principle in a second mode.
It is well-known that when communicating over a mobile channel, such as e.g. in a mobile telephone system, the signal is subjected to various influences affecting am¬ plitude and phase between transmitter and receiver. Such influences include distortion which occurs because of multipath propagation of the transmitted signal. The situation is further aggravated by the fact that the dis¬ tortion constantly changes when the mobile unit moves. It is therefore necessary that so-called channel equaliza- tion on the received signal can take place in the re¬ ceiver. This channel equalization is performed to equal¬ ize the distortion which may have taken place partly in the transmission channel itself and partly in the radio frequency receiver. Examples of transmission systems of the said type include mobile telephone systems, e.g. of GSM or DCS/PCS type, and transmission systems of DECT type.
Said channel equalization may be performed using a plu- rality of known equalization principles. These equaliza¬ tion or demodulation principles may be divided into co¬ herent and non-coherent ones. In some transmission sys¬ tems, such as e.g. the GSM or DCS/PCS types, the refer¬ ence frequency of the receiver is so precise compared to the reference oscillator in the corresponding transmitter that it is possible to use a so-called coherent transmit- ter for equalizing the received signal. This receiver type requires that frequency and phase of the carrier wave of the received signal are known and constant for a given block of received data.
In other transmission systems, such as e.g. DECT, how¬ ever, the reference frequency is not, or not always, so precise from the transmitter side that the receiver can use the coherent principle, it being therefore necessary to use a so-called non-coherent principle. The receiver does not know the exact frequency and phase of the re¬ ceived data block and moreover cannot expect that fre¬ quency and shape are constant through a whole data block. Receivers of the non-coherent type are usually not resis- tant to multipath propagation, which results in impaired quality of the data signals received.
The ever increasing use of the various transmission sys¬ tems creates a need for terminals or base stations which are capable of receiving and transmitting data informa¬ tion by means of several different transmission systems. If, e.g., it is desired to have a terminal capable of re¬ ceiving and transmitting data information partly in one of the transmission systems allowing coherent demodula- tion, partly in one of the systems without this facility, it has previously been necessary to provide the terminal with two complete receivers, viz. one operating according to the coherent principle, and one operating according to the non-coherent principle. This means that it is diffi- cult to make such terminals suitably small and easy to handle, and also adds considerably to the costs of these terminals. For base stations as well as terminals it may moreover be difficult to obtain a suitable combination of price and implementation complexity. Such a receiver is known from IEEE Transactions on Commu¬ nications, Vol. 42, No. 7, July 1994, Upamanyu Madhow et al. , "Universal Receivers with Side Information from the Demodulators: An Example for Nonselective Rician Fading Channels".
US Patent Specification 4 583 048 discloses a receiver wherein, in a coherent system, a training sequence is de¬ modulated non-coherently at the start of each block to enable adjustment of the phase, so that the rest cf the block may be demodulated coherently. However, this is merely done to ensure that the coherent demodulation can take place, and the receiver is not capable of demodulat¬ ing signals which can just be demodulated non-coherently.
The invention provides a demodulator which, by means of the same hardware, is capable of receiving data informa¬ tion and demodulating these according to the coherent principle and the non-coherent principle, respectively. Thus, it is a so-called multimode receiver which will be considerably cheaper to manufacture than a receiver con¬ taining two separate receiver circuits. Further, the re¬ ceiver will have a considerably higher quality in certain physical surroundings for the transmission systems which cannot (or not always) use coherent demodulation, and in these situations a longer range of the receiver is moreo¬ ver achieved.
This is achieved according to the invention in that the demodulator comprises a differential detector, an equal¬ izer and a switch adapted to couple the received signals directly to the equalizer in the first mode of the de¬ modulator and to couple the received signals to the equalizer via the differential detector in the second mode of the demodulator. The use of such a configuration ensures that just a small part of the receiver circuit need be different for the two transmission systems, while all the rest of the re¬ ceiver circuit may be used for both systems. As men- tioned, it is contemplated either that the receiver can receive data information by means of two different trans¬ mission systems, or that, in a system where the received signals are not always sufficiently good for demodulation to take place according to the coherent principle, the receiver can demodulate according to the coherent prin¬ ciple when this is possible and switch to the non-coher¬ ent principle when coherent demodulation is not possible.
In an embodiment of the invention, which is described in claim 2, the demodulator is adapted to receive data which are transmitted in blocks of finite length, each said block containing a training sequence which is known be¬ forehand by the receiver, and the equalizer here com¬ prises a Viterbi equalizer.
When, as stated in claim 3, the demodulator is adapted to receive data signals from various transmission systems in each of the said modes, it is ensured, as mentioned, that the same receiver can serve as a receiver on two or more different transmission systems. An expedient embodiment of this receiver is adapted to receive data signals asso¬ ciated with transmission systems using modulation forms of MSK type, since this is a widely used modulation form.
For example, as stated in claim 5, the demodulator may be adapted to receive data signals associated with a mobile telephone system of e.g. GSM or DCS/PCS type in the first mode, i.e. when the demodulator operates as a coherent demodulator. Further, as stated in claim 6, the demodula- tor may be adapted to receive data signals associated with e.g. a transmission system of DECT type in the sec- ond mode, i.e. when the demodulator operates as a non-co¬ herent demodulator. Owing to the extensive use of these transmission types a receiver capable of receiving sig¬ nals of these types will be extremely expedient.
In the situation where the receiver is to receive data signals from two or more different transmission systems, it will be expedient that, as stated in claim 7, the de¬ modulator is arranged such that switching between coher- ent and non-coherent demodulation is controlled by sig¬ nals received from the transmitter side of the transmis¬ sion system, so that it is the received signal type which decides whether coherent or non-coherent demodulation takes place.
When, as stated in claim 8, switching between coherent and non-coherent demodulation is controlled by means of a detector capable of detecting whether the received sig¬ nals are suitable for coherent demodulation, it is en- sured that the receiver itself decides on the basis of the quality of the received signals whether to use coher¬ ent or non-coherent demodulation. This may be relevant either if the signal quality from the transmitter varies, or where transmitters having a sufficient quality for co- herent demodulation to be used in the receivers as well as transmitters which do not meet this requirement, are used within the same system.
The use of the said demodulator in a mobile telephone system of e.g. GSM or DCS/PCS type, as stated in claim 9, ensures that such receivers can have an even more univer¬ sal application, since they will also be capable of re¬ ceiving data signals which are transmitted on other sys¬ tems. The same is achieved when the receiver, as stated in claim 10, is used in a transmission system of DECT type, since this system will be widely used also in fu- ture. Here, even the quality will be improved, since re¬ ceivers for this system usually do not have such a high quality as is required in the systems using coherent de¬ modulation.
The invention will be explained more fully below with reference to the drawing, in which
fig. 1 shows two transmitters of different type and a re- ceiver in which the invention may be applied,
fig. 2 shows the structure of a data receiver,
fig. 3 shows an example of a differential detector,
fig. 4 shows an example of a time discrete channel model,
fig. 5 shows a setup for coherent Viterbi equalizer.
fig. 6 shows a setup for a non-coherent Viterbi equal¬ izer, and
fig. 7 shows an example of a multimode Viterbi equalizer.
Fig. 1 shows a system having a receiver 11 capable of re¬ ceiving data information from two different transmission systems, and two transmitters 1, 2 representing the two different systems. The transmitter 1 may be a transmitter for a mobile telephone system of GSM or DCS 1800/DCS 1900 type. Similarly, the transmitter 2 may be a transmitter for a DECT transmission system.
Data are transmitted wirelessly in blocks from the two transmitters through a time-varying transmission channel to the receiver. In this transmission, the transmitted signal is subjected to noise as well as distortion. It is therefore necessary to perform a so-called channel equalization on the received signal in the receiver. This channel equalization is performed to equalize the distor¬ tion applied in the transmission channel and in the radio frequency receiver of the receivers. Data are transmitted in blocks of finite duration between the transmitters 1, 2 and the receiver 11. Each data block contains a se¬ quence, a so-called training sequence, which is known to the receiver, and which enables the receiver to estimate the pulse response of the transmission channel, i.e. from the modulator of the transmitter to the demodulator of the receivers.
The transmitter 1 from a GSM or DCS system contains a bit source 3 which supplies the data to be transmitted, and a radio frequency modulator 4 which modulates the data sig¬ nal by means of an oscillator 5 for the reference fre¬ quency. The modulated data signal is then emitted from an antenna* 6. The transmitter 2 from a DECT system similarly contains a bit source 7, a radio frequency modulator 8, a reference frequency oscillator 9 and an antenna 10.
The receiver 11 receives data signals on the antenna 12, following which they are first processed in a radio fre- quency part 13 capable of receiving signals of GSM/DCS as well as DECT type. The radio frequency part 13 contains the reference frequency oscillator 14 of the receiver and a phase shift 15 ensuring that the data signals appear in a complex form on the output of the radio frequency part. This is shown in the figure by the two signals I, Q. Suitable amplification, filtering and mixing are per¬ formed in the radio frequency part to ensure sufficient selectivity and signal/noise ratios until the further processing of the data signals is performed. The data signals are passed from the radio frequency part 13 to the data receiver 16 in which the channel equalization and the detection proper take place. The radio frequency part 13 and the data receiver 16 are controlled by a con¬ trol circuit 17.
Fig. 2 shows the structure of the data receiver 16. The complex signals I, Q are fed to a differential detector 18, a switch 19 and a channel estimator 20. As will be seen, the signals may be fed via the switch 19 either di¬ rectly or via the differential detector 18 to an equal- izer 21, which may e.g. be a Viterbi equalizer or another equalizer of MLSE type (Maximum Likelihood Sequence Esti¬ mator) . By means of the training sequence received, the channel estimator 20 finds the instantaneous transmission channel pulse response, which is then used by the equal- izer 21 to perform equalization, thereby allowing the re¬ ceived data information to be estimated.
When the data receiver is used for receiving GSM/DCS 1800/DCS 1900 signals, the reference frequency of the re- ceivers is so precise compared to the reference oscilla¬ tor in the corresponding transmitter that it will be pos¬ sible to use a so-called coherent receiver for equalizing the signal received. This receiver type requires that frequency and phase of the carrier wave of the received signal are known and constant for a block of received data. When this is the case, a so-called Viterbi equal¬ izer may be used, it being understood that the receiver has full knowledge of the frequency and phase of the re¬ ceived carrier wave.
The channel pulse response is first estimated in the channel estimator 20 on the basis of the known sequence of the signal which is received. This estimate of the channel distortion is then used in the unit 21, which performs equalization and estimation of the bits which are received. The coherent version of the data receiver does not use the differential detector, as mentioned, and the complex baseband signal is therefore just bypassed, as shown.
When, on the other hand, the data receiver is used for a DECT signal, the reference frequency is not so precise as to enable the receiver to employ the coherent principle. Therefore, a so-called non-coherent principle is used. The reason is that the reference oscillator in the DECT transmitter 2 according to the DECT specification has very lenient frequency stability requirements, so that it cannot be expected that it is appropriate to implement a coherent receiver solution. The basis of the non-coherent principle is that the receiver does not know the exact frequency and phase of the received block, and that fre¬ quency and phase are not necessarily constant through a whole block.
In this situation, estimation of the channel pulse re- sponse on the basis of the known sequence in the received signal takes place first, like before. The received sig¬ nal is passed through the differential detector 18 prior to being fed to the equalizer 21. Fig. 3 shows an example of how the differential detector 18 may be constructed. The detector contains a time delay element 22 and an ele¬ ment 23 which performs complex conjugation of the sig¬ nals, which are still in a complex form (I, Q) . The re¬ sulting signal is then mixed with the original signal in the mixing stage 24. It should be noted that various dif- ferential detectors are available, and the detector shown in fig. 3 is merely an example of such a differential de¬ tector. After the differential detection the received signal is fed via the switch 19 to the equalizer 21, which is capable of performing so-called differential Viterbi equalization of the received signal by means of the estimated channel pulse response. This type of equalization is basically the same as the differential one, but with a few modifications because of the inclu¬ sion of the differential detector in the receiver chain.
As mentioned, the pulse response of the channel is esti¬ mated in this type of transmission systems by means of a special bit sequence in the transmitted blocks. This makes it possible to generate a so-called time discrete channel model in the receiver which describes the influ- ence of the channel on the transmitted signal.
An example of such a model is shown in fig. 4. This fig¬ ures shows an example of an estimated channel pulse re¬ sponse with L+l taps, called ho, ..., hL- The values 1^ are the symbols transmitted from the transmitter, which may generally take on complex values. It is assumed that Ik can take on a total of M different values. This de¬ scription of the channel model means that it can be de¬ scribed as a state machine, in which the states can take on the values
Figure imgf000012_0001
Ik-2, •••, Jk-L) • This results in a state machine having a total of M states described by various combinations of the symbols I in the state de¬ scription Sjς-
It is assumed below that L=l to simplify the description of the algorithms. In accordance with the above, this gives rise to two values of h, viz. ho and hi. This moreover means that the state machine of the channel can take on Mι=M states.
Fig. 5 shows the setup of input signal to the coherent Viterbi equalizer, while fig. 6 correspondingly shows the setup for input signal to the non-coherent Viterbi equal¬ izer. In the said example, the coherent signal receives the following signal: rk=h0-lk+hrlκ-i
The corresponding expression for the non-coherent re¬ ceiver will be:
Ik=(h0'Ik+hl'Ik-l)'(h0-Ik-l+h Ik-2)*
rk=Ih0I2IkIk.!+IhiI2Ik-lI -2+hθhlIkIk-2+hlhOI*k-l12
For the modulation form used in the DECT system, Ik=j bk Ik-1/ anc* hence with substitution in the above formula:
Figure imgf000013_0001
IhχI2bk_1-bkbk_1h0h1+h5 ' hλ
This means that the coherent and non-coherent Viterbi equalizations may be implemented such that just a single block must be capable of making calculations correspond¬ ing to either the coherent or the non-coherent receiver solution, while all the other blocks are common to the two solutions.
This is outlined in fig. 7, in which an example of a mul- timode Viterbi equalizer is shown.
In the shown implementation of the multimode Viterbi equalizer, the block "generation of reference received signal" must be capable of handling both the coherent setup and the non-coherent setup shown in figs. 5 and 6. All other blocks are the same for the two receiver types.

Claims

P a t e n t C l a i m s :
1. A demodulator (16) for use in a receiver for trans¬ mission systems and adapted to demodulate received sig- nals according to a coherent principle in a first mode and to demodulate received signals according to a non-co¬ herent principle in a second mode, c h a r a c t e r ¬ i z e d in that the demodulator comprises a differential detector (18), an equalizer (21) and a switch (19) adapted to couple the received signals directly to the equalizer (21) in the first mode of the demodulator and to couple the received signals to the equalizer (21) via the differential detector (18) in the second mode of the demodulator.
2. A demodulator according to claim 1, c h a r a c ¬ t e r i z e d in that it is adapted to demodulate data which are transmitted in blocks of finite length, each said block containing a training sequence which is known beforehand by the receiver, and that the equalizer (21) comprises a Viterbi equalizer.
3. A demodulator according to claim l or 2, c h a r ¬ a c t e r i z e d in that it is adapted to demodulate data signals associated with a specific transmission sys¬ tem in each of said states.
4. A demodulator according to claims 1-3, c h a r a c ¬ t e r i z e d in that it is adapted to demodulate data signals associated with transmission systems using modu¬ lation forms of MSK type.
5. A demodulator according to claims 1-4, c h a r a c ¬ t e r i z e d in it is adapted to demodulate data sig- nals associated with a mobile telephone system of e.g. GSM or DCS/PCS type in said first mode.
6. A demodulator according to claims 1-5, c h a r a c ¬ t e r i z e d in that it is adapted to demodulate data signals associated with e.g. a transmission system of DECT type in said second mode.
7. A demodulator according to claims 1-6, c h a r a c ¬ t e r i z e d in that said switch (19) switching between between coherent and non-coherent demodulation is con¬ trolled by signals which are received from the transmit- ter side of the transmission system.
8. A demodulator according to claims 1-6, c h a r a c ¬ t e r i z e d in that said switch (19) switching between coherent and non-coherent demodulation is controlled by a detector capable of detecting whether the received sig¬ nals are suitable for using coherent demodulation.
9. Use of a demodulator according to claims 1-8 in a mo¬ bile telephone system of e.g. GSM or DCS/PCS type.
10. Use of a demodulator according to claims 1-8 in a transmission system of DECT type.
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