KR20130065485A - Reveiver with lna and input signal processing method thereof - Google Patents
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The present invention relates to a receiving apparatus including a low noise amplifying circuit and an input signal processing method thereof.
With the development of wireless communication technology, various wireless electronic devices have been developed and widely used. In a wireless communication system, there is a transmitter for transmitting a radio signal, and there is a receiver for receiving a radio signal. The transmitter generates and transmits a radio signal through a demodulation process of combining a data signal with a high frequency wave. The receiving apparatus receives a radio signal, modulates a desired data signal through a modulation process, and uses the same internally.
In the case of television, in general, television stations transmit radio waves of ultra high frequency (VHF) and ultra high frequency (UHF) to viewers. Recently, in urban areas, the signals provided by broadcasting stations are not properly received by television terminals, which are well-received devices, due to noise signals frequently generated by traffic congestion and increase in high-rise buildings such as aircraft, automobiles, high-speed railways and trains. It is happening.
In order to solve this problem, recently, a wireless signal receiver in a television terminal includes a function of removing and amplifying a case where there is a lot of noise in an input signal.
1 is a view showing a low noise amplifier (LNA) according to the prior art. This represents the LNA in the RF signal processing circuit disclosed in the prior document (2009-0104381).
Referring to FIG. 1, the LNA circuit includes an
The
The
The
According to the above LNA circuit, it is simply determined whether to amplify or bypass the RF signal to a fixed level.
However, since the LNA circuit according to the prior art always amplifies the RF signal to a fixed level, there is a problem in reducing the sensitivity or reception performance for the RF signal having a certain level.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a receiver having a low noise amplifier capable of amplifying and outputting the RF signal at a variable level according to an automatic gain control signal of an input RF signal and an input signal processing method thereof. .
Technical problems to be achieved in the present invention are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned above are clearly understood by those skilled in the art to which the embodiments proposed from the following description belong. Could be.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a receiver includes: first to N low noise amplifiers for amplifying an RF signal input from an external device; First to N switches for controlling the operation of the first to N low noise amplifiers; And a switch controller configured to determine a low noise amplifier to be activated according to an automatic gain control signal input from an external device, and output a control signal to a corresponding switch so that the determined low noise amplifier is activated. The gain control signal is changed.
In addition, the input signal processing method of the receiving apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of receiving an automatic gain control signal input from the outside; Determining a low noise amplifier to be activated among a plurality of low noise amplifiers using the received automatic gain control signal; And amplifying an RF signal input from the outside using the determined low noise amplifier, wherein the number of activated low noise amplifiers is changed according to the automatic gain control signal.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, by amplifying an RF signal with a variable gain, an LNA circuit applicable to various field environments may be implemented. In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by deactivating the LNA circuit in accordance with the field environment, it is possible to monitor in advance the situation where the reception sensitivity and reception performance is reduced due to the amplification of the strong electric field signal, and the power consumption is reduced. Can be reduced.
1 is a view showing a low noise amplifier (LNA) according to the prior art.
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a receiver according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a detailed block diagram showing the LNA of FIG.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a step-by-step method of processing an input signal of a receiving apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
DETAILED DESCRIPTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings so that those skilled in the art may easily implement the present invention. As those skilled in the art would realize, the described embodiments may be modified in various different ways, all without departing from the spirit or scope of the present invention.
Throughout the specification, when a part is said to "include" a certain component, it means that it can further include other components, without excluding other components unless specifically stated otherwise.
2 is a diagram illustrating a configuration of a receiving
Referring to FIG. 2, the
The
The LNA 120 is a circuit for reducing noise and performing signal amplification for the RF signal transmitted through the
The LNA 120 is also called a low noise amplifier. The signal received at the receiving end of the RF signal processing circuit has a very low power level due to the effects of attenuation and noise. For this reason, the amplification of the input RF signal is necessary. Since the signal is already transmitted including a lot of noise from outside, an amplification function for minimizing noise is necessary, among other things. The LNA 120 is designed to hold the operating point and the matching point so that the NF (Noise Index) is low, and is usually designed to be an NF value between 1.5 and 2.5. The LNA 120 is designed to use a transistor having a low noise figure so as to have a low noise characteristic, and to maximize gain while using fewer thermal noise devices such as resistors.
Meanwhile, the RF signal passed through the
In addition, when amplification of the RF signal is required, since all RF signals are not input with the same power level, the RF signal must be amplified at different amplification levels according to the power level of the RF signal.
Accordingly, the LNA 120 according to the present invention allows the amplification of the RF signal according to the power level of the RF signal, or provides the path of the RF signal by a bypass path not including itself, thereby performing the amplification. Do not lose. In addition, the LNA 120 amplifies the RF signal by applying different amplification levels according to the power level of the RF signal.
This will be described in more detail with reference to the following.
The
That is, the
The
The
The
Hereinafter, the configuration and operation of the LVA 120 will be described in more detail.
3 is a detailed block diagram showing the LNA of FIG.
Referring to FIG. 3, the LNA 120 may include first to N
The first to Nth
In this case, all of the first to N
For example, all of the first to N
The first to N switches 122 control the operation of the corresponding low noise amplifier based on a switching signal input through the
The path switch 123 forms an initial path of the input RF signal. That is, the path switch 123 outputs the input RF signal to an activated low noise amplifier according to an automatic gain control signal, or outputs a bypass path not including the low noise amplifier.
That is, if the RF signal is amplified by the low noise amplifier at all times irrespective of the level of the RF signal input from the outside, the characteristics of the RF signal may be deteriorated. That is, when the RF signal is a weak electric field, the RF signal can be effectively amplified by the low noise amplifier. However, in the case of the RF signal of the strong electric field or the medium electric field, the signal sensitivity, interference interference, and multi-signal test (MSG) characteristics are deteriorated. In particular, in the case of the DVB-C 256 QAM type RF signal processing circuit, the reception characteristics are important in the medium and high electric field due to the rapidly increasing data amount. When the medium and the strong electric field RF signal are amplified through the low noise amplifier, Deterioration of the reception characteristics adversely affects signal processing.
Accordingly, in an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the RF signal is selectively amplified according to the level of the input RF signal.
The
The
For example, when amplification of the RF signal is unnecessary, the
On the other hand, when it is necessary to amplify the RF signal, the
The
For example, when the determined amplification level is '10' and the amplification level of the second low noise amplifier is '10', the
In addition, when the determined amplification level is '10', and each of the amplification levels of the first to
In other words, the
In addition, the
In addition, the amplification levels of the first to N low noise amplifiers may be different from each other. For example, when the amplification level of the first low noise amplifier is '1', the amplification level of the second low noise amplifier is '2', and the amplification level of the determined RF signal is '3', the switch control unit ( 125 activates the first low noise amplifier and the second low noise amplifier. Accordingly, the sum (1 + 2 = 3) of each amplification level of the activated low noise amplifier corresponds to the determined amplification level of the RF signal.
The
For example, when the first low noise amplifier and the second low noise amplifier are activated, the
In other words, a synthesized signal obtained by synthesizing an amplified signal amplified by the first low noise amplifier having a '5' amplification level and the second low noise amplifier having a '5' amplification level is a '10' amplification level for the input RF signal. It is the same signal as the amplified signal amplified by one particular low noise amplifier.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, by amplifying an RF signal with a variable gain, an LNA circuit applicable to various field environments may be implemented. In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by deactivating the LNA circuit in accordance with the field environment, it is possible to monitor in advance the situation where the reception sensitivity and reception performance is reduced due to the amplification of the strong electric field signal, and the power consumption is reduced. Can be reduced.
4 is a flowchart illustrating a step-by-step method of processing an input signal of a receiving apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 4, first, the switch controller 250 receives an automatic gain control signal (step 110). The automatic gain control signal corresponds to a power level of an RF signal input from the outside.
In
In other words, the switch controller 250 determines whether the input RF signal is a strong or medium electric field signal or a weak electric field signal.
If the amplification of the RF signal is unnecessary, in
In addition, when it is determined in
In
Thereafter, the activated at least one low noise amplifier amplifies and outputs a predetermined amplification level with respect to the input RF signal (step 160).
Thereafter, the combiner 240 synthesizes signals output through the low noise amplifier (step 170).
As described above, according to the exemplary embodiment of the present invention, an LNA circuit applicable to various field environments may be implemented by amplifying an RF signal with a variable gain. In addition, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by deactivating the LNA circuit in accordance with the field environment, it is possible to monitor in advance the situation where the reception sensitivity and reception performance is reduced due to the amplification of the strong electric field signal, and the power consumption is reduced. Can be reduced.
The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.
110: input filter unit
120: low noise amplifier
130: first tuning circuit
140: RF amplifier
150: second tuning circuit
160: signal selector
170: demodulator
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First to N switches for controlling the operation of the first to N low noise amplifiers; And
And a switch controller configured to determine a low noise amplifier to be activated according to an automatic gain control signal input from an external device, and output a control signal to a corresponding switch so that the determined low noise amplifier is activated.
And the number of low noise amplifiers to be activated is changed according to the automatic gain control signal.
And a bypass path switch disposed in front of the first to N switches and outputting the RF signal to a bypass path that does not include the first to N low noise amplifiers according to the automatic gain control signal.
The switch control unit,
And determining an amplification level of the RF signal based on the automatic gain control signal and controlling only one particular low noise amplifier having an amplification level corresponding to the determined amplification level to be activated.
The switch control unit,
Determining an amplification level of the RF signal based on the automatic gain control signal, controlling a plurality of low-noise amplifiers to be activated according to the determined amplification level,
And a sum of each amplification level of the plurality of activated low noise amplifiers corresponds to the determined amplification level of the RF signal.
Further comprising a synthesizer for synthesizing a plurality of RF signals output through the activated low noise amplifier,
And the RF signal synthesized through the synthesizer is a signal obtained by amplifying the input RF signal to a specific amplification level, and the specific amplification level is a sum of amplification levels of each of the activated low noise amplifiers.
Further comprising an RF signal processing unit for processing the synthesized RF signal,
The RF signal processing unit,
An RF amplifier amplifying the synthesized RF signal according to the automatic gain control signal; And
And a signal selector for selecting and outputting only a band of a desired signal among the RF signals amplified by the RF amplifier and providing the automatic gain control signal.
Determining a low noise amplifier to be activated among a plurality of low noise amplifiers using the received automatic gain control signal; And
Amplifying an RF signal input from the outside using the determined low noise amplifier,
The number of low noise amplifiers to be activated is changed according to the automatic gain control signal.
And outputting the input RF signal as a bypass path according to the received automatic gain control signal.
And determining an amplification level of the input RF signal based on the automatic gain control signal.
Determining the low noise amplifier to be activated,
Activating any one low noise amplifier having an amplification level corresponding to the determined amplification level.
Determining the low noise amplifier to be activated,
Activating a plurality of low noise amplifiers according to the determined amplification level,
And a sum of the amplification levels of the plurality of activated low noise amplifiers corresponds to the amplification level of the determined RF signal.
And synthesizing an amplified signal amplified by the activated plurality of low noise amplifiers.
And the synthesized synthesized signal is an amplified signal obtained by amplifying the input RF signal at an amplification level corresponding to the sum of the respective amplification levels of the activated plurality of low noise amplifiers.
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