
1022410 – 0001 Rev. 2
UMOD hardware theory of operation 3–15
The backplane serves as internal electrical interface between the
IF IN port on the IF panel and ultimately the UMOD motherboard
in any occupied chassis slot. Received IF signals are routed across
the backplane to the UMOD motherboard. Once the receive data
has been processed, the backplane routes data, control, and clock
signals to the CIM.
The receive IF stage provides low-noise amplification (LNA),
automatic gain control (AGC), and filtering of the received carrier
(see figure 3-7).
90
°
I
A/D
Q
A/D
CONTROL
PROCESSOR
IF/BASEBAND
CONVERTER
52- TO 88-MHz
BPF
104- TO 176-MHz
BPF
50
Ω
RX IF
INPUT
IF LOOPBACK
SWITCH
TX IF
OUTPUT FROM
MODULATOR
AGC
RX
SYNTHESIZER
NCO
PLL
0
°
Figure 3-7
Receive IF stage and synthesizer circuit block diagram
The receive IF signal is bandpass-filtered to reject out-of-band
signals. In-band signals accepted by the bandpass filters depend on
the frequency (52-88 MHz or 104-176 MHz) the UMOD
motherboard has been configured for. The filtered signal is
downconverted (using a local oscillator, LO, derived from the
receive synthesizer) to a second IF of either 20 MHz (52-88 band)
or 40 MHz (104-176 band), lowpass filtered, and then sent sent
through the AGC amplifier. AGC action, detected and controlled
by the UDMOD ASIC, maintains the channel level constant at the
input of the UDMOD ASIC. The signal is then converted to
baseband by a quadrature downconverter. The resulting I and Q
baseband signals are lowpass-filtered to remove the sum frequency
components of the downconversion process, and to limit the
bandwidth of the signals into the analog-to-digital (A/D) which
prevents aliasing in converters that follow. The cutoff frequency of
these lowpass filters is fixed and wide enough to pass the highest
symbol rate signal (approximately 5 MHz). An additional signal
monitor inside the RX FIR/NCO senses the output level of the
quadrature downconverter to limit the power at that stage to avoid
saturating the receive chain or the A/D converters.
Backplane
Receive IF stage