Importance

Loading Importance Indicators...

Abstract

Circuit and method for timing recovery in a digital communication receiver for improving a BER performance and having a faster data transmission rate, the timing recovery circuit for recovering a synchronous timing signal of a PN code from an output of a matched filter in the digital communication receiver, including a power calculation circuit for receiving an output of the matched filter and calculating a power of a PN code signal for each sample period in each symbol period, a maximal power position detection circuit for detecting a sample position at which a symbol period has a maximum power value, a symbol position tracking circuit for tracking and setting an optimal symbol position value, a modulo counter for rotating as many as a number of samples in one symbol period in counting the samples for providing a reference position of samples, and a comparator for comparing the present symbol position value from the symbol position tracking circuit and a count value from the modulo counter, and generating a symbol clock when the present symbol position value and the count value are the same.

Loading the Abstract Image...

First Claim