Title
Low cost back end signal processing driven bandwidth interleaved signal acquisition using free running undersampling clocks and mixing signals
Abstract
As communication data rates increase, wideband signals are being increasingly used to accommodate high rates of information transmission. Acquiring and characterizing the time domain waveform of such signals requires high measurement system sampling rate and wide input bandwidth and is thus, expensive. A key problem that drives up the cost of traditional bandwidth interleaved data acquisition systems is the need to synchronize the input signal (periodic) with the sampling clock as well as the oscillator inputs to all the mixers in the band interleaved architecture. This synchronization problem is complicated at multi-GHz frequencies and increases overall design cost. In this paper, we propose a low-cost band-interleaved architecture that uses: (a) incoherent undersampling to acquire the signal across the frequency bands of the band-interleaved system and (b) does not require any mutual synchronization between the input signal, the undersampling clocks and the mixing signals (local oscillators) of each frequency band in the band-interleaved system. The reconstruction is achieved through back-end spectrum analysis and use of signal processing algorithms that compensate for the lack of synchronization. The proposed technique is supported by hardware validation experiments.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/TEST.2014.7035279
Test Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
clocks,mixers (circuits),signal detection,signal reconstruction,synchronisation,time-domain analysis,back-end spectrum analysis,band interleaved architecture,band-interleaved system,information transmission,input signal,local oscillators,low-cost band-interleaved architecture,mixing signals,multi-GHz frequencies,oscillator inputs,sampling rate,signal processing algorithms,synchronization problem,time domain waveform,traditional bandwidth interleaved data acquisition systems,undersampling clocks,wide input bandwidth,wideband signals
Wideband,Signal processing,Synchronization,Frequency band,Computer science,Sampling (signal processing),Data acquisition,Undersampling,Electronic engineering,Real-time computing,Bandwidth (signal processing)
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1089-3539
1
0.40
References 
Authors
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicholas Tzou110.40
Debesh Bhatta210.40
Abhijit Chatterjee31949269.99