Inventors:
Christian Volf Olgaard - Sunnyvale CA
Gerard Socci - Palo Alto CA
Assignee:
National Semiconductor Corporation - Santa Clara CA
International Classification:
H03K 900
US Classification:
375316, 375285, 375350, 455 631, 455296
Abstract:
A wireless communication system (e. g. , GSM) receiver including analog (e. g. , analog channel select) and digital filters, and bandwidth control circuitry which operates during at least one mode (e. g. , a synchronization mode) to effectively narrow the combined pass band of the analog and digital filters thus reducing the bandwidth of noise passing therethrough, and a method for reducing noise pass band (preferably by data rotation) in at least one mode (e. g. , a synchronization mode) but not all modes of wireless communication system receiver. Preferably,the bandwidth control circuitry passes through the output of an analog-to-digital converter (indicative of data) to the digital filter during at least one operating mode, and the bandwidth control circuitry rotates the data in the complex domain (during at least one other mode) before the data is digitally filtered. Rotation of the data is equivalent to rotation of the digital filter pass band, so that (during synchronization) the combined pass band of the analog and digital filters is effectively narrowed but is still sufficiently wide to include the frequency of a frequency correction burst. By performing data rotation in the complex domain, noise bandwidth reduction can be accomplished with simple logic circuitry configured to perform simple logic operations.