CN212275960U - Signal disturbance extraction circuit and radio frequency receiver - Google Patents
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The utility model discloses a signal disturbance extraction circuit and radio frequency receiver, signal disturbance extraction circuit connects in parallel in signal processing unit's input and output, including modulator and the wave filter that connects gradually between signal processing unit output and input, still includes the charge pump with modulator and wave filter difference electric connection, wherein, the modulator is used for quantizing the voltage signal of signal processing unit output, and the modulation is digital signal; the charge pump intermittently charges the filter under the control of the digital signal; and the filter extracts the disturbance signal after filtering and feeds the disturbance signal back to the input end of the signal processing unit. The utility model discloses avoided the reliance to rail input range amplifier, broken away from rail to rail signal processing's linearity restriction, can simply draw disturbing signal, had very high linearity, had wide application scene.
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Technical Field
The utility model belongs to the technical field of the radio frequency signal transmission, concretely relates to signal disturbance extraction circuit and radio frequency receiver.
Background
In a radio frequency signal received by a radar, due to the existence of interference, a low-frequency disturbing signal appears during frequency mixing, which invades the dynamic range of a subsequent analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and influences the resolution precision of the radar. In a conventional rf receiver structure, due to the characteristics of a transimpedance amplifier (also called a current-to-voltage converter TIA), it is not possible to use a conventional high-pass filter to attenuate these low-frequency disturbances.
Referring to fig. 1, a radio frequency receiver in the prior art sequentially includes a low noise amplifier LNA, a low noise transconductance amplifier LNTA, a MIXER MIX, a transimpedance amplifier TIA, a programmable gain amplifier PGA, and a low pass filter LPF, where the low noise amplifier LNA and the low noise transconductance amplifier LNTA convert radio frequency electromagnetic waves received by an antenna into electrical signals, and then the electrical signals are mixed with a local oscillator signal LO through a MIXER, so as to shift a frequency spectrum, generate an intermediate frequency current signal, which is converted into a voltage signal through the transimpedance amplifier TIA and the programmable gain amplifier PGA, and then the voltage signal is filtered by the low pass filter LPF and output.
Due to the objective interference, the if current signal will contain low frequency disturbances, which must be removed by high pass filtering in order to ensure the system works properly. In the conventional radio frequency receiver, in order to ensure the working state of LNTA and MIX, the voltage swing of the TIA input node needs to be limited, and the input impedance of the TIA is strictly limited, so that the conventional feedforward high-pass filter is difficult to apply in the receiver.
Referring to fig. 2, a scheme for eliminating low-frequency disturbance in the prior art specifically includes: and a low-pass filter is connected in parallel with a forward path of the TIA & PGA, and low-frequency disturbance is fed back to the input end of the TIA & PGA in a current form to be eliminated. Due to the output swing of the transimpedance amplifier TIA & programmable gain amplifier PGA, theoretically, a rail-to-rail signal will cause a great limitation to the application of the inverse low pass filter. In such applications, the operational amplifier device of the inverted low pass filter needs to possess a rail-to-rail input range and provide high linearity, increasing design difficulty and cost.
Therefore, it is desirable to provide a signal disturbance extraction circuit and a radio frequency receiver.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
An object of the utility model is to provide a signal disturbance extraction circuit and radio frequency receiver to the disturbance in the extraction signal route is eliminated.
In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention provides the following technical solutions:
a signal disturbance extraction circuit is connected in parallel with an input end and an output end of a signal processing unit, comprises a modulator and a filter which are sequentially connected between the output end and the input end of the signal processing unit, and further comprises a charge pump which is respectively and electrically connected with the modulator and the filter, wherein the modulator is used for quantizing a voltage signal output by the signal processing unit and modulating the voltage signal into a digital signal; the charge pump intermittently charges the filter under the control of the digital signal; and the filter extracts the disturbance signal after filtering and feeds the disturbance signal back to the input end of the signal processing unit.
In one embodiment, the modulator is a 1-bit modulator, and the modulator is configured to compare the voltage signal with a reference voltage and output a high-low level digital signal, and output a high level if the voltage signal is higher than the reference voltage, and output a low level if the voltage signal is lower than the reference voltage.
In one embodiment, the charge pump includes a control current source connected to a power voltage and a bias current source connected to a reference voltage, the modulator is electrically connected to the control current source, and the filter is electrically connected between the control current source and the bias current source.
In one embodiment, the signal disturbance extraction circuit comprises two charge pumps connected in parallel, and each charge pump is used for intermittently charging the filter under the control of the digital signal so as to extract the disturbance signal in the differential voltage signal.
In one embodiment, the filter is a low pass filter, a high pass filter, or a band pass filter.
The utility model discloses another embodiment provides a technical scheme as follows:
a radio frequency receiver, the radio frequency receiver comprising:
the first signal processing unit comprises a low noise amplifier LNA and/or a low noise transconductance amplifier LNTA and is used for receiving the radio frequency electromagnetic signal and converting the radio frequency electromagnetic signal into an electric signal;
a mixer MIX for mixing the electrical signal and the local oscillator signal to generate a current signal;
the second signal processing unit comprises a trans-impedance amplifier TIA and is used for converting the current signal into a voltage signal;
the filtering unit is used for filtering the voltage signal;
in the signal disturbance extraction circuit, the signal disturbance extraction circuit is connected in parallel to the input end and the output end of the second signal processing unit, and the second signal processing unit is further configured to eliminate the disturbance signal extracted by the signal disturbance extraction circuit.
In an embodiment, the second signal processing unit further includes a programmable gain amplifier PGA.
Compared with the prior art, the utility model has the advantages of it is following:
the utility model avoids the dependence on the rail-to-rail input range amplifier, gets rid of the linearity limitation of the rail-to-rail signal processing, can simply extract the disturbance signal, has very high linearity and has wide application scenes;
the utility model discloses can be under present radio frequency receiver design frame to very high linearity, extract and eliminate disturbing signal, and can not change TIA's equivalent impedance.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly described below, it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are only some embodiments described in the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to the drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram of a prior art RF receiver;
FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of a prior art inverse low pass filter based signal disturbance extraction circuit;
fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a signal disturbance extraction circuit according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 4 is a flowchart of a signal disturbance extraction method according to a first embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 is a circuit diagram of a radio frequency receiver according to a second embodiment of the present invention.
Detailed Description
The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to embodiments shown in the drawings. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiments, and the structural, method, or functional changes made by those skilled in the art according to the embodiments are all included in the scope of the present invention.
Referring to fig. 3, the signal disturbance extraction circuit in the first embodiment of the present invention, which is connected in parallel to the input end (left port in fig. 3) and the output end (right port in fig. 3) of the signal processing unit, includes a modulator 11 and a filter 12 connected in sequence between the output end and the input end of the signal processing unit, and further includes a charge pump 13 electrically connected to the modulator and the filter, respectively, wherein the modulator 11 is configured to quantize the voltage signal a output by the signal processing unit and modulate the voltage signal a into a digital signal B; the charge pump 13 intermittently charges the filter 12 under the control of the digital signal B; the filter 12 extracts the disturbance signal C after filtering and feeds back the disturbance signal C to the input end of the signal processing unit.
Correspondingly, referring to fig. 4, the signal disturbance extracting method in the present embodiment includes:
s1, acquiring the voltage signal output by the signal processing unit, quantizing the voltage signal through a modulator, and modulating the voltage signal into a digital signal;
s2, controlling the charge pump to intermittently charge the filter through the digital signal;
and S3, filtering by the filter, extracting the disturbance signal, and feeding back the disturbance signal to the input end of the signal processing unit.
Specifically, the modulator in this embodiment is a 1-bit modulator, and the modulator is configured to compare the voltage signal with a reference voltage and output a high-low level digital signal, and output a high level (1) if the voltage signal is higher than the reference voltage, and output a low level (0) if the voltage signal is lower than the reference voltage.
The charge pump 13 includes a control current source (modulated current) connected to a power voltage and a Bias current source (Bias current) connected to a reference voltage, the modulator 11 is electrically connected to the control current source (modulated current), and the filter 12 is electrically connected between the control current source (modulated current) and the Bias current source (Bias current). The bias current source in the charge pump 13 provides bias current for the filter 12, and the digital signal B controls the control current source in the charge pump 13 to intermittently charge the filter 12, and after passing through the filter, the digital signal B is converted into a disturbance signal C in the form of current.
In this embodiment, the voltage signal a is an intermediate frequency voltage signal, the disturbance signal C is a low frequency disturbance signal, and the corresponding filter 12 is a low pass filter.
The signal processing unit takes the transimpedance amplifier TIA as an example for explanation, quantizes the intermediate frequency voltage signal received by the TIA output end by using the frequency component of the received intermediate frequency, and modulates the intermediate frequency voltage signal into a digital signal B. This process avoids the dependence on the amplifier in the rail-to-rail input range, changes the signal space by the modulation method, and converts the voltage signal into a digital signal, thereby implementing a one-way path from the TIA output terminal to the TIA input terminal, while the signal at the TIA input terminal cannot be fed forward to the output node of the TIA by the signal disturbance extraction circuit described in fig. 3. When a 1-bit modulator is used, it has mathematically perfect linearity.
And the digital signal B obtained by modulation is used for controlling a charge pump, and the charge pump intermittently charges a low-pass filter of an output node under the control of the digital signal B, and converts the low-pass filter into a low-frequency disturbance signal in a current form.
And finally, negatively feeding back the extracted low-frequency disturbance signal to an input end, and eliminating the low-frequency disturbance signal at the input node by the principle of opposite phase and cancellation of amplitude after negative feedback. The elimination of the disturbing signal by negative feedback is a conventional technical means in the field, and is not the protection core of the present invention, and is not described herein again.
The utility model discloses with prior art (fig. 2) key technology promote be exactly: realized one can only feed back, and do not have the extraction circuit of feedforward route, normal operating signal route is a feedforward route, the utility model discloses do not produce any influence to normal operating signal route.
Referring to fig. 5, a radio frequency receiver according to a second embodiment of the present invention includes:
a first signal processing unit 20, including a low noise amplifier LNA and a low noise transconductance amplifier LNTA, for receiving the radio frequency electromagnetic signal and converting the radio frequency electromagnetic signal into an electrical signal;
a mixer MIX 30 for mixing the electrical signal and the local oscillator signal to generate a current signal;
a second signal processing unit 40, including a transimpedance amplifier TIA and a programmable gain amplifier PGA, for converting the current signal into a voltage signal;
a filtering unit 50 including a low pass filter LPF for filtering the voltage signal;
and the signal disturbance extraction circuit DCC 10 is connected in parallel with the input end and the output end of the second signal processing unit, and the second signal processing unit is further used for eliminating the disturbance signal extracted by the signal disturbance extraction circuit.
Specifically, in this embodiment, the low noise amplifier LNA and the low noise transconductance amplifier LNTA are sequentially connected in series to the input end of the mixer 30, and convert the received rf electromagnetic signal into an electrical signal, and then the mixer MIX mixes the electrical signal with the local oscillator signal LO to generate an intermediate frequency current signal.
The second signal processing unit 40 is arranged across the transimpedance amplifier TIA and the programmable gain amplifier PGA in an integrated manner, the resistor R1 is an adjustable resistor in the programmable gain amplifier PGA, and in addition, the two ends of the second signal processing unit are connected in parallel with the filter capacitor C1.
The filtering unit 50 is a low pass filter LPF, and a resistor R2 and a capacitor R2 are connected in parallel to both ends of the low pass filter LPF.
In this embodiment, the radio frequency electromagnetic signals are two differential signals, the first signal processing unit converts the two differential radio frequency electromagnetic signals into two differential electrical signals, and the two differential intermediate frequency current signals are generated after mixing by the mixer MIX.
For the differential signal, the signal disturbance extraction circuit in this embodiment includes a modulator, two charge pumps connected in parallel, and a filter, and the two charge pumps connected in parallel are controlled by a digital signal, and are respectively and discontinuously charged to the filter, and the filter extracts the disturbance signal in the differential voltage signal after filtering, and feeds the disturbance signal back to the input end of the signal processing unit. The filter is a low-pass filter to extract low-frequency disturbance signals in the two paths of intermediate-frequency current signals. Specifically, the disturbance extraction principle of each path of signal is the same as that of the first embodiment, and is not described here again.
It should be understood that, in the signal disturbance extraction circuit of this embodiment, two paths of signals multiplex one modulator and one filter, and in other embodiments, one modulator and one filter may be used in each path of signal, that is, each path of signal adopts the circuit structure in the first embodiment, and extraction of the low-frequency disturbance signal may also be achieved.
In addition, in the above embodiment, the low-frequency disturbing signal is taken as an example for description, in other embodiments, the disturbing signals in other frequency ranges may also be extracted, and only different filters need to be selected correspondingly, for example, a high-pass filter or a band-pass filter may be selected, the high-pass filter may be selected to extract the high-frequency disturbing signal, and the band-pass filter may be selected to extract the specific-frequency disturbing signal.
According to the technical scheme provided by the utility model, the utility model discloses following beneficial effect has:
the utility model avoids the dependence on the rail-to-rail input range amplifier, gets rid of the linearity limitation of the rail-to-rail signal processing, can simply extract the disturbance signal, has very high linearity and has wide application scenes;
the utility model discloses can be under present radio frequency receiver design frame to very high linearity, extract and eliminate disturbing signal, and can not change TIA's equivalent impedance.
It is obvious to a person skilled in the art that the invention is not restricted to details of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but that it can be implemented in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the invention. The present embodiments are therefore to be considered in all respects as illustrative and not restrictive, the scope of the invention being indicated by the appended claims rather than by the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalency of the claims are therefore intended to be embraced therein. Any reference sign in a claim should not be construed as limiting the claim concerned.
Furthermore, it should be understood that although the present description refers to embodiments, not every embodiment may contain only a single embodiment, and such description is for clarity only, and those skilled in the art should integrate the description, and the embodiments may be combined as appropriate to form other embodiments understood by those skilled in the art.
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1. A signal disturbance extraction circuit is characterized in that the signal disturbance extraction circuit is connected in parallel with an input end and an output end of a signal processing unit, comprises a modulator and a filter which are sequentially connected between the output end and the input end of the signal processing unit, and further comprises a charge pump which is respectively and electrically connected with the modulator and the filter, wherein the modulator is used for quantizing a voltage signal output by the signal processing unit and modulating the voltage signal into a digital signal; the charge pump intermittently charges the filter under the control of the digital signal; and the filter extracts the disturbance signal after filtering and feeds the disturbance signal back to the input end of the signal processing unit.
2. The signal disturbance extraction circuit according to claim 1, wherein the modulator is a 1-bit modulator, and the modulator is configured to compare the voltage signal with a reference voltage and output a high-low level digital signal, and output a high level if the voltage signal is higher than the reference voltage, and output a low level if the voltage signal is lower than the reference voltage.
3. The signal disturbance extraction circuit of claim 1, wherein the charge pump comprises a control current source connected to a supply voltage and a bias current source connected to a reference voltage, the modulator is electrically connected to the control current source, and the filter is electrically connected between the control current source and the bias current source.
4. The signal disturbance extraction circuit according to claim 1 or 3, wherein the signal disturbance extraction circuit comprises two parallel charge pumps, each for intermittently charging a filter under control of a digital signal to extract a disturbance signal in the differential voltage signal.
5. The signal disturbance extraction circuit of claim 1, wherein the filter is a low pass filter, a high pass filter, or a band pass filter.
6. A radio frequency receiver, characterized in that the radio frequency receiver comprises:
the first signal processing unit comprises a low noise amplifier LNA and/or a low noise transconductance amplifier LNTA and is used for receiving the radio frequency electromagnetic signal and converting the radio frequency electromagnetic signal into an electric signal;
a mixer MIX for mixing the electrical signal and the local oscillator signal to generate a current signal;
the second signal processing unit comprises a trans-impedance amplifier TIA and is used for converting the current signal into a voltage signal;
the filtering unit is used for filtering the voltage signal;
the signal disturbance extraction circuit of any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the signal disturbance extraction circuit is connected in parallel to an input end and an output end of the second signal processing unit, and the second signal processing unit is further configured to eliminate the disturbance signal extracted by the signal disturbance extraction circuit.
7. The RF receiver of claim 6, wherein the second signal processing unit further comprises a Programmable Gain Amplifier (PGA).
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