
1022410 – 0001 Rev. 2
Operational states 4–3
The UMOD performs full–function diagnostics tests after
initialization. These tests include:
•
Performing an IF loopback test. In this test, the internal bit
error rate (BER) tester loops data through the UMOD
transmit and receive circuitry, including the terrestrial data
interface daughtercard (either a DIM or GIM), and the
optional internal framing unit (IFU). Once the BER tester
verifies that the data it receives is error–free, the UMOD is
operational.
•
Verifying that there are no alarms
•
Verifying the transmit power setting and testing the power
detector
At the end of diagnostics, if the UMOD has been configured to
autostart, it will begin the signal acquisition process. If autostart
has been disabled, the UMOD will transition to the idle state.
In software, the acquisition process is comprised of three
processing states: acquisition, track and fade. In the acquisition
state, the modem sweeps to find a receive signal. Once the
modem has found a valid receive signal, the modem considers
itself to be in track mode and stops sweeping. When the modem is
tracking a signal and loses lock, it considers itself to be in a fade.
During a fade, the modem looks for the receive signal to reappear
at the current frequency. If the signal does not reappear before the
fade timeout expires, the modem restarts acquisition.
When the modem is successfully tracking a receive signal, the
frequency offset information (see Figure 4-2) ftrack_offset is
stored in EEPROM every 6 hours. The stored track frequency is
then used when acquisition is initiated with an AUT ON or a
redundancy switch.
Acquisition begins whenever the modem software is commanded
to start sweeping for a receive signal. The sources of the
acquisition start include user command, redundancy switch, AUT
ON configuration setting, and reacquisition.
+AR
–AR
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center
f
nom
f
track
f
offset
f
track_offset
Acquisition Range
Figure 4-2
UMOD acquisition process
4.2
System diagnostics
4.3
Signal acquisition