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UMOD hardware theory of operation 3–11
Transmit filtering is performed digitally on the data from the
channel encoding section (see figure 3-3 on page 3–11). Dual
finite impulse response (FIR) filters—part of the FIR/NCO
ASIC—perform baseband spectral shaping on the I and Q
channels. To meet UMOD requirements, the filter coefficients are
programmable, not fixed. In most cases either a linear-phase
raised-cosine filter or a square-root raised-cosine filter response is
used, although the FIR filter is capable of almost any response
desired, including Butterworth and Bessel responses. Corrections
for sinx/x distortions in the digital-to-analog (D/A) converter are
included in the filter coefficient set.
Figure 3-3
Transmit filter circuit block diagram
Alias spectra will appear at multiples of the sampling rate of the
FIR filter which lie within the passband of the anti-alias filter. To
remove these spectral components, a series of interpolation filters
are used after the main FIR filter to upsample the data from the
FIR filter to a final sample rate in the range of 10 to 20 Msps. This
upsampling places the alias components within the stopband of the
anti-alias filters.
Following the FIR filters, D/A converters convert the digital
output sequence into rectangular pulses whose amplitude is
proportional to the value of the data word.
The D/A converters are followed by fixed-bandwidth anti-alias
filters to suppress the alias spectra created by the discrete time
nature of the FIR filter. The cutoff frequency of the lowpass filters
is approximately 5 MHz to accommodate the highest design
symbol rate of 9.3 Msps. The filter incorporates group-delay
equalization.
Transmit filtering