Patent Application
20180191425
This application claims priority to and the benefit of Korean Patent Application No. 10-2016-0180134, filed on Dec. 27, 2016, the disclosure of which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
The present disclosure relates to a phase shift keying modulator, and more particularly, to a structure of a high speed phase shift keying modulator based on a phase modulation scheme which is used in a low earth orbit, middle earth orbit, geostationary orbit, and deep space satellite.
The digital signal mapped by the mapper passes through the bandlimiting filter and the compensation filter and finally through the DAC to be converted into the analog signal and output. In order to process a high speed signal, each block needs to ensure a proper clock timing margin.
In detail, the bandlimiting filter and the compensation filter each need to have a sampling frequency four times greater than that of the mapper. For example, when constructing a 240 Msps (Mega samples per second) phase shift keying modulator, an output of the mapper has an in-phase component of 120 Msps and a quadrature component of 120 Msps. Accordingly, the sampling frequency of the bandlimiting filter and the compensation filter is set to 480 MHz, which is four times greater than that of the mapper.
As for a phase shift keying modulator implemented using a field programmable gate array (FPGA), when a circuit synthesis and automatic placement and routing (P&R) are coded using a resistor transfer level (RTL), a logic delay caused by each high frequency stage ends up making it difficult to ensure the clocking timing margin. Accordingly, it is impossible to implement a high speed phase shift keying modulator using a FPGA.
The present disclosure is directed to a new structure of a phase shift keying modulator in which the phase shift keying modulator is implemented using a field programmable gate array (FPGA).
The technical objectives of the present disclosure are not limited to the above, and other objectives may become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art based on the following descriptions.
A high speed phase shift keying modulator according to the present disclosure has pipeline buffers added at an input side and an output side of a bandlimiting filter and a compensation filter. The pipeline buffers allow timing margins to be ensured.
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a high speed phase shift keying modulator including a mapper, a first pipeline buffer, a second pipeline buffer, a first square root raised cosine (SRRC) filter, a second SRRC filter, a third pipeline buffer, a fourth pipeline buffer, a first compensation filter, a second compensation filter, a first DAC, and a second DAC. The mapper may be configured to map a signal to modulating symbols representing a position according to an amplitude and a phase constellation. The first pipeline buffer may have an in-phase component of an output of the mapper as an input. The second pipeline buffer may have a quadrature phase component of the output of the mapper as an input. The first SRRC filter may have an output signal of the first pipeline buffer as an input. The second SRRC filter may have an output signal of the second pipeline buffer as an input. The third pipeline buffer may have an output signal of the first SRRC filter as an input. The fourth pipeline buffer may have an output signal of the second SRRC filter as an input. The first compensation filter may have an output signal of the third pipeline buffer as an input and may be configured to compensate for signal distortion. The second compensation filter may have an output signal of the fourth pipeline buffer as an input and may be configured to compensate for signal distortion. The first DAC may have an output signal of the first compensation filter as an input. The second DAC may have an output signal of the second compensation filter as an input.
The bandlimiting filter and the compensation filter of the high speed phase shift keying modulator may be implemented by using a digital signal processing (DSP) block in a FPGA.
The first and second SRRC filters and/or the first and second compensation filters may be implemented in the DSP unit in the FPGA by software.
Each of the first SRRC filter and the second SRRC filter of the high speed phase shift keying modulator may include an odd number portion finite impulse response filter, an even number portion finite impulse response filter, and a summator. The odd number portion finite impulse response filter may be configured to process an odd number component of an input signal. The even number portion finite impulse response filter may be configured to process an even number component of the input signal. The summator may be configured to summate outputs of the odd number portion finite impulse response filter and the even number portion finite impulse response filter, and to output a result of the summation.
The first to fourth pipeline buffers may have a pipeline state value which is determined with reference to a slack value of a slack report generated after automatic placement and routing (P&R).
The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:
Hereinafter, a high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to exemplary embodiments will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the descriptions, the same reference numerals are used to designate the same elements, and details of redundant descriptions and related known functions or constructions will be omitted to avoid obscuring the subject matter of the present disclosure. The embodiments are provided so that this disclosure is complete and fully conveys the inventive concept to those skilled in the art. Accordingly, the shape and size of each component shown in the drawings can be exaggerated for clarity of explanation.
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The reason for using the first to fourth pipeline buffers 20, 30, 60 and 70 are as follows. The SRRC filter and the compensation filter of the phase shift keying modulator each employ filter coefficients with eighty taps according to an aspect of the embodiment, and thus a logic delay inherently occurs. When an output signal of the SRRC filter is directly transferred to the compensation filter, clock margins are not ensured due to the logic delay, and thus a high speed phase shift keying modulator is not constructed. Accordingly, the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to an embodiment includes the first to fourth pipeline buffers 20, 30, 60 and 70 between the mapper 10 and the first SRRC filter 40, between the mapper 10 and the second SRRC filter 50, between the first SRRC filter 40 and the first compensation filter 80, and between the second SRRC filter 50 and the second compensation filter 90, respectively, which compensates for the insufficient clock margin occurring due to the logic delay generated in the SRRC filter and the compensation filter so that clock margins between the blocks are ensured, thus enabling high speed operation of the phase shift keying modulator.
Meanwhile, the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to an embodiment may be implemented using a field programmable gate array (FPGA). FPGA is a well-known technology classified as a high density Programmable Logic Device (PLD) and enables a desired circuit to be rapidly implemented by user programming which utilizes an electrical fuse.
The first SRRC filter 40, the second SRRC filter 50, the first compensation filter 80, and the second compensation filter 90 of the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to an embodiment may be implemented in a digital signal processing (DSP) unit inside the FPGA by software.
In an automatic placement and routing (P&R) operation which is implemented by the FPGA, the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to an embodiment senses a pipeline state of each of the pipeline buffers using a P&R tool, and when it is determined that the timing margins have been ensured, in a logic optimization process, the DSP unit may construct the bandlimiting filter and the compensation filter as software so that a high speed filter may be constructed. Accordingly, a high speed phase shift keying modulator may be constructed. For example, with a Xilinx Kintex-7 FPGA, a filter with a sample rate of 480 MHz may be constructed, and when 8 PSK modulation with 240 Msps is used, a ultra-high speed phase shift keying modulator with a data rate of about 720 mbps may be constructed.
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Meanwhile, the SRRC filter of the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to an embodiment as shown in
With respect to the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 according to an embodiment, the first to fourth pipeline buffers 20, 30, 60, and 70 may have a pipeline state which varies with reference to a slack of a slack report generated after P&R.
That is, the high speed phase shift keying modulator 200 may adjust, by referring to a slack record of a timing report among reports generated after P&R by a FPGA tool, the pipeline state until a desired slack for each of the first to fourth pipeline buffers 20, 30, 60, and 70 is obtained so that the clock margin is ensured. A slack represents an absolute time interval between a time at which data actually arrives and an earliest boundary of a setup time interval. The setup time interval is an interval in the amount of a setup time requirement before a rising edge or a falling edge of a preset clock in a system. Accordingly, the pipeline state may be adjusted with reference to the slack.
As should be apparent from the above, a high speed phase shift keying modulator can be implemented using an FPGA.
When the high speed phase shift keying modulator is equipped in a satellite, data can be transmitted to a terrestrial station at high speed, and in particular, high-speed data transmission using a low-earth orbit satellite can be enabled.
In addition, a high-speed filter is constructed so that the cost of the phase shift keying modulator can be significantly reduced and the reliability of a satellite's critical mission can be ensured.
Although exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure have been described in the specification and the accompanying drawings, the exemplary embodiments are intended to not limit the technical spirit of the present disclosure, and those skilled in the art should appreciate that various substitutions, modifications, and changes are possible without departing from the scope and spirit of the disclosure. Therefore, the scope of the disclosure is not to be limited by the above embodiments but by the claims and the equivalents thereof.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10-2016-0180134 | Dec 2016 | KR | national |
