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"The only saving grace as to what happened yesterday is that the three main contenders in the AFC threw up all over their shoes this week. In many ways, it saved the Patriots' bacon," said Gresh.
Injuries continue to stack up for New England, with left tackle Nate Solder leaving the game with a head injury. That forced Logan Mankins to move to left tackle, with undrafted rookie Josh Kline taking Mankins' spot at left guard.
Injuries should never be used as an excuse, but Gresh notes they made the Patriots change their approach late in Sunday's game.
"They ran 33 plays, and threw the ball 30 times in fourth quarter… They didn't trust the offensive line once the injuries hit," said Gresh. "Once Solder went down, they basically stopped running the ball, other than to do it to give the wide receivers a blow."
"What we learned yesterday is that even though they've won these games, and they almost did it yesterday, the margin for error is literally nil," said Gresh. "They can't make a big mistake, unless it's early in the game and they give themselves enough time to overcome it."
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Utah Jazz notebook: Deron Williams, C.J. Miles interested in seeing Jimmer Fredette, too
PHOENIX — Deron Williams and C.J. Miles had to see it for themselves.
The two Jazz players got a glimpse of Jimmermania on Saturday afternoon when they watched Utah and BYU play in the Marriott Center. Although Jimmer Fredette didn't light the Utes up like he did the first time BYU and Utah played this season, the Jazz pair still came away impressed.
"He definitely can score the basketball," Miles said. "They played good defense on him, and he did a good job not forcing a lot of shots."
So can the Jimmer make it in the NBA? Yes, according to Miles.
"You can score that basketball, you can shoot the ball like he can, you can get in this league," Miles said. "Anybody will take anybody that can shoot the basketball."
Fredette scored 23 points against the Utes after shooting 3-for-9 in the first half.
"He struggled a little bit in that first half, but the second half he came back and had a great game," said Williams. "It was a fun game to watch."
Williams and Miles both enjoyed their experience in the Marriott Center.
"I didn't know the arena was that big," Williams said. "It's bigger than (where) Illinois (plays). It's bigger than EnergySolutions isn't it?"
It is bigger, but the atmosphere isn't better than the one Williams, an Illinois alum, played in, he said.
"It was good — it wasn't like Illinois, but it was good," Williams said.
IS MALONE NEXT?: Karl Malone mentioned carrying on the legacies of Jerry Sloan and Phil Johnson as a coach when he was in town for the Jazz's 95-83 loss to the Suns on Friday. There's always a chance Malone could join the Jazz in some capacity, but probably not for a few years at least. He has a son who is a sophomore in high school and a highly touted football player.
"I didn't talk to him in-depth," Corbin said of his dealings with Malone. "We'll have a chance to talk later once we get things get settled down."
Would Malone make a good coach?
"I have no idea," Corbin said. "I know he was a great player in this league."
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"He drew up a play for me," Corbin said. "They beat Cottonwood, so he says, 'Dad, I got a great play for you.'"
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PHOENIX — Arizona is in for a big cool down alter this week when a powerful Canadian storm blows into the state.
The storm is expected to arrive Thursday. Flagstaff could see its first snowfall of the year while the Valley will see a high of only 75 or less and a slight chance of rain.
Hector Vasquez with the National Weather Service said this is a very cold storm coming right out of western Canada in the Vancouver, B.C. area.
"We were hoping it would swing offshore and pick up more Pacific Ocean moisture but it is staying inland across California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington and finally hits Arizona Thursday morning," he said. "Our precipitation won't be as heavy and it will mostly be in the Flagstaff region where snow levels could drop to 6,500 to 7,000 feet."
Vasquez said the real issue with this storm will be strong winds with gusts of 55 miles per hour in the high country, and 40 mph in the Valley beginning Wednesday.
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RIO DE JANEIRO Captain Steven Gerrard will take his time to decide his international future after England's humiliating exit from the World Cup, he said at a news conference on Sunday.
"I won't be rushing into any decision. I spoke to the manager this morning and it's not the right time," the 34-year-old Liverpool midfielder said, sitting alongside England manager Roy Hodgson.
"I'm hurting very badly and broken from what's gone on in the last couple of weeks. I need to get away on holiday," added Gerrard, who has 113 caps for his country.
Hodgson also said he would not resign despite the failure to reach the last 16, following defeats by Italy and Uruguay.
He is only halfway through his term as manager with England starting their European Championship 2016 qualifying campaign in September.
"We are very, very disappointed for the fans but we did try our very best," Hodgson said.
"It's a fantastic job and I'm privileged to work with such a talented bunch of players."
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It is the first time they have not made it out of the group stages since 1958 and the first time they have been eliminated after just two matches.
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NAD recommends Oracle discontinue certain performance claims for Exadata
By Greg Schulz
I Received the following press release in my inbox today from the National Advertising Division (NAD) recommending that Oracle stop making certain performance claims about Exadata after a complaint from IBM.
In case you are not familiar with ExaData, it is a database machine or storage appliance that only supports Oracle database systems (learn more here). Oracle having bought Sun microsystems a few years back moved from being a software vendor that competed with other vendors software solutions including those from IBM while running on hardware from Dell, HP and IBM among others. Now that Oracle is in the hardware business, while you will still find Oracle software products running on their competitors hardware (servers and storage), Oracle is also more aggressively competing with those same partners, particularly IBM.
Hmm, to quote Scooby Doo: Rut Roh!
Looks like IBM complained to the Better Business Bureau (BBB) National Advertising Division (NAD) that resulted in the Advertising Self-Regulatory Council (ASRC) making their recommendation below (more about NAD and ASRC can be found here). Based on a billboard sign that I saw while riding from JFK airport into New York City last week, I would not be surprised if a company with two initials that start with an H and end with a P were to file a similar complaint.
I Wonder if the large wall size Oracle advertisement that used to be in the entry way to the white plains (IATA:HPN) airport (e.g. in IBM's backyard) welcoming you to the terminal as you get off the airplanes is still there?
The following is the press release that I received:
For Immediate Release
Contact: Linda Bean
NAD Finds Oracle Took Necessary Action in Discontinuing Comparative Performance Claims for Exadata; Oracle to Appeal NAD Decision
New York, NY July 24, 2012 TheNational Advertising Division has recommended that Oracle Corporation discontinue certain comparative product-performance claims for the companys Exadata database machines, following a challenge by International Business Machines Corporation. Oracle said it would voluntarily discontinue the challenged claims, but noted that it would appeal NADs decision to the National Advertising Review Board.
The advertising claims at issue appeared in a full-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal and included the following:
- Exadata 20x Faster Replaces IBM Again
- Giant European Retailer Moves Databases from IBM Power to Exadata Runs 20 Times Faster
NAD also considered whether the advertising implied that all Oracle Exadata systems are twenty times faster than all IBM Power systems.
The advertisement featured the image of an Oracle Exadata system, along with the statement: Giant European Retailer Moves Databases from IBM Power to Exadata Runs 20 Times Faster. The advertisement also offered a link to the Oracle website: For more details oracle.com/EuroRetailer.
IBM argued that the 20x Faster claim makes overly broad references to Exadata and IBM Power, resulting in a misleading claim, which the advertisers evidence does not support. In particular, the challenger argued that by referring to the brand name IBM Power without qualification, Oracle was making a broad claim about the entire IBM Power systems line of products.
The advertiser, on the other hand, argued that the advertisement represented a case study, not a line claim, and noted that the sophisticated target audience would understand that the advertisement is based on the experience of one customer the Giant European Retailer referenced in the advertisement.
In a NAD proceeding, the advertiser is obligated to support all reasonable interpretations of its advertising claims, not just the message it intended to convey. In the absence of reliable consumer perception evidence, NAD uses its experienced judgment to determine what implied messages, if any, are conveyed by an advertisement. When evaluating the message communicated by an advertising claim, NAD will examine the claims at issue in the context of the entire advertisement in which they appear.
In this case, NAD concluded that while the advertiser may have intended to convey the message that in one case study a particular Exadata system was up to 20 times faster when performing two particular functions than a particular IBM Power system, Oracles general references to Exadata and IBM Power, along with the bold unqualified headline Exadata 20x Faster Replaces IBM Again, conveyed a much broader message.
NAD determined that at least one reasonable interpretation of the challenged advertisement is that all or a vast majority of Exadata systems consistently perform 20 times faster in all or many respects than all or a vast majority of IBM Power systems. NAD found that the message was not supported by the evidence in the record, which consisted of one particular comparison of one consumers specific IBM Power system to a specific Exadata System.
NAD further determined that the disclosure provided on the advertisers website was not sufficient to limit the broad message conveyed by the 20x Faster claim. More importantly, NAD noted that even if Oracles website disclosure was acceptable and had appeared clearly and conspicuously in the challenged advertisement it would still be insufficient because an advertiser cannot use a disclosure to cure an otherwise false claim.
NAD noted that Oracles decision to permanently discontinue the claims at issue was necessary and proper.
Oracle, in its advertisers statement, said it was disappointed with the NADs decision in this matter, which it believes is unduly broad and will severely limit the ability to run truthful comparative advertising, not only for Oracle but for others in the commercial hardware and software industry.
Oracle noted that it would appeal all of NADs findings in the matter.
NAD's inquiry was conducted under NAD/CARU/NARB Procedures for the Voluntary Self-Regulation of National Advertising. Details of the initial inquiry, NAD's decision, and the advertiser's response will be included in the next NAD/CARU Case Report.
About Advertising Industry Self-Regulation: The Advertising Self-Regulatory Council establishes the policies and procedures for advertising industry self-regulation, including the National Advertising Division (NAD), Childrens Advertising Review Unit (CARU), National Advertising Review Board (NARB), Electronic Retailing Self-Regulation Program (ERSP) and Online Interest-Based Advertising Accountability Program (Accountability Program.) The self-regulatory system is administered by the Council of Better Business Bureaus.
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Ok, Oracle is no stranger to benchmark and performance claims controversy having amassed several decades of experience. Anybody remember the silver bullet database test from late 80s early 90s when Oracle set a record performance except that they never committed the writes to disk?
Something tells me that Oracle and Uncle Larry (e.g. Larry Ellison who is not really my uncle) will treat this as any kind of press or media coverage is good and probably will issue something like IBM must be worried if they have to go to the BBB.
Will a complaint which I'm sure is not the fist to be lodged with the BBB against Oracle deter customers, or be of more use to IBM sales and their partners in deals vs. Oracle?
What's your take?
Is this much ado about nothing, a filler for a slow news or discussion day, a break from talking about VMware acquisition of Nicira or VMware CEO management changes? Perhaps this is an alternative to talking about the CEO of SSD vendor STEC being charged with insider trading, or something other than Larry Ellison buying an Hawaiian island (IMHO he could have gotten a better deal buying Greece), or is this something that Oracle will need to take seriously?
Ok, nuff said.
Cheers Gs
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- ESRB: Everyone 10+
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Why do i only get rayquaza on towers?
I beat team battle ex 6 but i have only got rayquaza like 7 times in the towers. I did beat team battle EX6 just, so u guys know... Why do i only get Rayquaza!!
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Bad luck ? Maybe or just best the ex 6 again and see what happens
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Mayby..! You can only get him some times in towers???!
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I used a speedy regigagus on tower level BF2 5 times and got a arcus
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|Publication number
|Publication type
|Application number
|Publication date
|Jan 14, 1997
|Filing date
|Aug 9, 1995
|Priority date
|Aug 9, 1995
|Fee status
|Publication number
|Mark R. Doyle, John T. Evans
|Original Assignee
|Western Atlas International, Inc.
|Export Citation
|BiBTeX, EndNote, RefMan
|Patent Citations (1), Referenced by (16), Classifications (15), Legal Events (5)
|External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, Espacenet
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention is related to the field of oil well logging instruments. More specifically, the present invention is related to apparatus within well logging tools which generate and detect signals which are amplitude and phase modulated in response to properties of earth formations.
2. Description of the Related Art
Oil well logging instruments are used to evaluate properties of earth formations surrounding wellbores drilled into the earth. Other logging instruments evaluate properties of fluids within the wellbore itself. One general class of well logging instruments includes devices which generate oscillating electromagnetic test signals. The test signals are imparted to the earth formations surrounding the wellbore, or to the fluids in the wellbore. A sensor, positioned on the tool to be responsive to the property of the formation or of the fluid, generates a signal which can be detected by various circuits in the tool. The amplitude and the phase of the signal generated by the sensor, relative to the original test signal, are indicative of the property being evaluated. For example, induction conductivity tools measure electrical conductivity of the earth formations by passing an oscillating current through transmitter coils on the logging instrument (tool). Receiver coils, positioned at appropriate locations along the tool, generate electrical voltages in response to the magnitude of currents induced in the earth formation, which currents themselves are indicative of the formation conductivity. In induction tools the amplitude of the sensor signal which is in phase with the test signal provides desirable information.
Another type of logging tool is used to determine the dielectric constant of the fluid in the wellbore. An oscillating test signal is conducted through a sensor which forms a parallel plate capacitor. The sensor is configured so that some of the fluid present in the wellbore moves between the plates. The capacitance of the sensor depends on the dielectric constant of the fluid in between the plates. Amplitude and phase difference from the amplitude and phase of the oscillating test signal depends on the capacitance of the sensor. The values of amplitude and phase difference can be used to calculate values of sensor capacitance, and therefore to estimate fractional volumes of water in the wellbore.
Systems for measuring amplitude and phase of the signal generated by the sensor are known in the art and include analog systems. Analog systems are described, for example in "Communication Systems and Techniques", M. Schwartz, W. Bennett and S. Stein, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1966. A drawback to using analog systems is that they typically require large, bulky components, which can be difficult to design to fit inside a well logging tool. Analog systems are also subject to inaccuracy resulting from temperature-induced drift in the ratings of system components.
It is also known in the art to substitute digital signal processing systems for analog systems. Digital signal processing systems are disclosed, for example, in "Multirate Digital Signal Processing", R. Crochiere and L. Rabiner, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1983. Digital systems known in the art are computationally intensive particularly because calculation of phase and amplitude requires calculation of sine and cosine values at the signal frequency. Digital calculation of sine and cosine typically are performed using infinite series, which can be time consuming even on fast digital signal processing (DSP) processors. Digital systems known in the art are also difficult to synchronize with the original oscillating test signal, which makes accurate measurement of true phase change difficult.
It is an object of the present invention to provide a system for measuring the amplitude and phase of a sensor signal, generated in response to a test signal imparted to a medium under investigation, which requires much less digital computation and is synchronized to the test signal so that accuracy of phase measurement is improved.
The present invention is a method of extracting a phase and amplitude modulation signal impressed on a carrier. The method includes generating the carrier at a frequency which is a multiple of the bandwidth of the modulation signal. The multiple equals 4N+1, where N is an integer. The modulation signal is impressed onto the carrier, generating a phase and amplitude modulated carrier, The modulated carrier is digitally sampled at a frequency of four times the bandwidth of the modulation signal. The digital sampling is initiated substantially contemporaneous with initiation of generating the carrier. A 90-degree phase shift is applied to the digitally sampled carrier to generate a quadrature component of the digitally sampled carrier. A time delay is applied to the digitally sampled carrier to restore time coincidence between the quadrature component and said digitally sampled carrier, and the phase and amplitude modulation signal is extracted by commutation of the time-delayed digitally sampled carrier and the quadrature component of the digitally sampled carrier.
In a particular embodiment of the invention, the phase and amplitude can be extracted from the extracted signal.
FIG. 1 shows a signal generation and detection apparatus according to the present invention.
The present invention can be better understood by referring to FIG. 1. A test signal generator, shown generally at 1, provides an oscillating test signal to a sensor 14. The oscillating test signal can have substantially constant frequency and phase. The sensor 14 modulates the test signal in response to changes in the value of a physical property to which the sensor is sensitive. For example, the sensor 14 in the present embodiment can be a capacitive probe used in oil well logging tools to determine the fractional volume of water filling a wellbore drilled through earth formations. As is understood by those skilled in the art, changes in fractional water volume to which the sensor is exposed cause changes in the capacitance of the probe. Changes in probe capacitance result in changes in the amount of phase shift and amplitude reduction at the signal output by the sensor 14 relative to the input from the generator 1.
It is to be understood that the example sensor 14 disclosed herein is provided only to illustrate the principle of the invention and is not to be construed as a limitation of the invention. It is contemplated that other types of sensors, for example, transmitters and receivers of an electromagnetic propagation resistivity tool used in measurement-while-drilling (MWD) operations would also be useful with the system of the present invention. In the case of the electromagnetic propagation resistivity tool, a time-varying electromagnetic field is induced in earth formations by passing the test signal through the transmitter. The receivers generate voltages corresponding to the magnitude of the field at locations spaced apart from the transmitter. The resistivity of the earth formations is calculated from the difference in phase and amplitude of the receiver voltages with respect to the test signal imparted to the transmitter, and as will be further explained, phase and amplitude are two measures which can be determined by the present invention. For similar reasons, it is also contemplated that transmitter and receiver coils used on induction resistivity logging tools could also be suitable for use with the present invention. Induction resistivity tools impart the test signal to transmitter coils on the tool. Receiver coils generate voltages corresponding to the magnitude of eddy currents induced in the earth formation by the transmitter coil. Magnitude of components of the receiver voltages which are 180 degrees out of phase with the test signal are indicative of the resistivity of the earth formation. The present invention, as will be explained, is well suited to determine the magnitudes of such components of the receiver voltages.
The output of the sensor 14 is conducted to a receiver, shown generally at 3 wherein are determined the variation in amplitude and phase, with respect to the test signal from the signal generator 1, of the signal output by the sensor 14.
The test signal generator 1 in the present embodiment preferably generates the test signal by digital-to-analog conversion. The test signal generator 1 includes a read only memory (ROM) 2 which can be programmed with a look-up table (not shown) containing numbers representing amplitude values of the test signal sampled at spaced apart time intervals. In the present embodiment the ROM 2 can be programmed with numbers representing a cosine function sampled at 80 equally spaced apart intervals. The ROM 2 is operationally connected to a controller 4. The controller 4 extracts the signal amplitude numbers from memory locations in the ROM 2 in a predetermined sequence and serially conducts the amplitude numbers to a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) 6. The DAC 6 converts the numbers into an analog voltage having a magnitude corresponding at any instant in time to the number conducted to it from the controller 4. The rate at which the controller 4 extracts new numbers and conducts them to the DAC 6 is determined by a master clock 20 which is connected to the controller 4. The master clock 20 in the present invention can have a frequency of 8.04 megahertz (mHz). The ROM 2, as previously explained, can have 80 individual amplitude values (numbers) per complete cycle of the cosine function programmed therein, so the DAC 6 will generate one complete analog voltage cycle at a rate of 100.5 kilohertz (kHz). The significance of the analog voltage rate output from the DAC 6 will be further explained. The output of the DAC 6 optionally can be conducted through an analog low pass filter 8 to remove high-frequency "stair-step" noise generated as an artifact of the digital-to-analog conversion, as is understood by those skilled in the art. The output from the low pass filter 8 can then be conducted to a power amplifier 10, which increases the signal amplitude and matches the signal generator 1 output impedance to that of the sensor 14, which is connected to the output of the generator 1. It is to be understood that the test signal generator 1 as disclosed herein including the DAC 6 and ROM 2 could be substituted by an analog oscillator while retaining the essential function of the present invention. The test signal generator 1 as disclosed herein is not meant to be an exclusive representation of all the types of test signal generator which would function with the present invention.
The signal, Si, conducted to the sensor, as shown generally at 12, can be represented by the expression:
Si =cos(ωc t), ωc =2πfc (1)
where fc is the so-called "carrier" frequency, which in the present embodiment represents the analog voltage cycle rate, and can be 100.5 kHz as previously explained. t represents time.
As previously explained, the sensor 14 can modulate the amplitude and phase of the test signal in response to changes in the physical property to which the sensor 14 is sensitive. In the present embodiment, the sensor 14, which can be a capacitance probe, is responsive to changes in the fractional volume of water in a fluid in contact with the sensor 14. The phase and amplitude modulation imparted by the sensor 14 are typically time-varying, since the fractional water volume is typically not constant, and as shown generally at 16, the output of the sensor, referred to as So (t), can be described by the relationship:
So (t)=A(t)cos(ωc t+φ(t)) (2)
where A(t) represents the time-varying amplitude modulation and φ(t) represents the time-varying phase modulation. In the present embodiment of the invention, the capacitance probe sensor 14 will typically modulate the test signal within a frequency range of 0-500 Hz. The signal, So, returned to the receiver 3 after modulation by the sensor 14, occupies the frequency band from 100-101 kHz (100.5 kHz�500 Hz). It is to be understood that the modulation bandwidth (�500 Hz) of the sensor 14 in the present embodiment of the invention is provided only as an example to illustrate the operation of the present invention, and is not to be construed as a limitation on the invention. Other types of sensors may impart modulation having different bandwidths and carrier frequencies, but will function equally well according to the present invention.
The test signal generator 1 and the modulation imparted to the test signal by the sensor 14 having been explained, the operation of the receiver 3 will now be explained. The receiver 3 can include a preamplifier 18 to match the sensor 14 impedance, and to condition the signal from the sensor 14 to an appropriate amplitude level for connection to the input of an analog to digital converter (ADC) 24. The ADC 24 generates a digital word representing the amplitude of the signal input sampled at spaced apart time intervals. The spaced apart time intervals are determined by the rate at which clocking pulses are provided to a clock input 24A on the ADC 24.
In a novel aspect of the present invention, the master clock 20, which is connected to the controller 4 in the signal generator 1 and determines the test signal (or the "carrier") frequency, is also connected to a divider 22, which reduces the 8.04 mHz frequency of the master clock 20 down to 2 kHz for conduction to the clock input 24A of the ADC 24. Since the master clock 20 operates both the signal generator 1 and the ADC 24, the digital sampling of the sensor 14 signal can be synchronized to generation of the test signal.
It will be readily appreciated by those skilled in the art that the ADC 24 samples the sensor signal at a rate which aliases the frequency of the modulated test signal, So. The modulated test signal is aliased from the 100-101 kHz frequency band down to the 0-1 kHz frequency band. The 100.5 kHz carrier is aliased to 500 Hz. However, since the digital words (the samples) generated by the ADC 24 are generated at a rate which is a submultiple of the (test signal) carrier frequency fc) and the samples are generated synchronously with the test signal carrier, the output of the ADC 24 will include substantially only a digital representation of the real component of the phase and amplitude modulation imparted to the test signal by the sensor 14 impressed on a 500 Hz intermediate frequency.
The output from the ADC 24, being in the form of discrete samples generated at spaced apart time intervals, can be represented by the expression:
I(n)=A(nΔT)cos(ωi nΔt+φ(nΔt))(3)
where n is an index number corresponding to each one of the digital samples, Δt is the time interval between samples, which in the present embodiment can be 0.5 milliseconds (corresponding to the 2 kHz sample rate), and where ωi is the carrier frequency after aliasing down to 500 Hz as a result of sampling at 2 kHz (multiplied by 2π for conversion to angular frequency) and which can be referred to as an intermediate frequency.
Extraction of the phase and amplitude modulation information requires a final demodulation of the 500 Hz intermediate frequency signal to zero frequency. Final demodulation can be performed by first conducting the output of the ADC 24 both to a delay buffer 30 and to a finite impulse response (FIR) filter 32. The FIR filter 32 provides a 90-degree phase shift to the incoming digitized signal from the ADC 24. The output of the FIR filter 32 represents the imaginary, or quadrature, component of the phase and amplitude modulated signal. The quadrature component of the signal Q(n) can be represented by the expression:
Q(n)=A(nΔt)sin(ωi nΔt+φ(nΔt))(4)
As is understood by those skilled in the art, the FIR filter 32 output will be delayed by a number of digital samples, M, (corresponding to a delay in time of MΔt) approximately one-half the filter length (which for digital filters is typically quantified by the number of input samples needed to generate one output sample). The delay buffer 30 provides substantial time-coincidence between the output of the FIR filter 32 representing the quadrature component of the modulated signal, and the output of the delay buffer 30 representing the in-phase component of the modulated signal. The delay line 30 output is shown generally at 36 and the FIR filter 32 output is shown generally at 34.
As is understood by those skilled in the art, the combination of the in-phase output 36 and the quadrature output 34 can be represented by an expression referred to as the analytic signal representation: ##EQU1##
As is also understood by those skilled in the art, down conversion of the intermediate frequency signal to zero frequency can be accomplished by multiplication of the intermediate frequency signal by the inverse: exp (-jωi nΔt). As shown in FIG. 1, the complex multiplication can be performed in a complex multiplier 38. Complex multiplier inputs are shown generally at 40, the real component, and at 42 the imaginary, or quadrature component, of exp (-jωi nΔt).
In a novel aspect of the present invention, the step of complex multiplication can be replaced by commutation. The sample rate of the ADC 24 (2 kHz) is selected to be exactly four times the intermediate frequency (500 Hz). The values of the complex inverse multiplier, exp (-jωi nΔt), can therefore only be 1, j, -1, or -j. The demodulated signal components, which can therefore only be 1, j, -1, or -j times the complex analytic signal representation [I(n)+jQ(n)], can be selected from the in-phase and quadrature components of the modulated signal as shown in the following commutation table:
______________________________________ Real Imaginaryn -ωi nΔt exp demodulated demodulatedmodulo 4 modulo 2π (-jωi nΔt) output output______________________________________0 0 1 I(n) Q(n)1 3π/2 -j Q(n) -I(n)2 π -1 -I(n) -Q(n)3 π/2 j -Q(n) I(n)______________________________________
The complex multiplier 38 therefore can be a commutator, which causes a sequence according to the commutation table to be conducted to the output terminals of the multiplier 38, the outputs shown as 44 (real component) and 46 (quadrature component).
It is also possible to perform simultaneously a decimation (or reduction in the number of digital samples) by a factor of two by sampling only the even numbered (n=0, or 2, modulo 4) I and Q components and applying the inverse sign to alternate outputs.
The phase and amplitude can be calculated, if desired, by the following expressions: ##EQU2##
Generally, the present invention requires that the bandwidth of the modulation signal, B, and the digital sample rate of the ADC 24, referred to as fs, be related according to an expression in equation (8), infra. Digital representation of the information contained in the modulated carrier signal, which has bandwidth 2B, must be sampled at at least twice the bandwidth of the modulated carrier signal, as represented by the expressions:
fs =2�(2B), fs =4B (8)
A modulated carrier signal having a range of frequencies ranging from fc -B to fc +B, where fc is the carrier frequency and B is the modulation bandwidth, can be digitally sampled without distortion at a frequency of 4B, as long as the lower edge of the frequency range of the signal, fc -B, is an integral multiple of the modulated carrier signal bandwidth 2B. It is desirable for the lower edge fc -B to be an even multiple of 2B so that "band reversal" is avoided, as explained for example in, "Multirate Digital Signal Processing", R. Crochiere and L. Rabiner, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1983. If an odd multiple of 2B is selected, the band reversal can be removed by the additional step of multiplication by an alternating sequence of +1 and -1 as explained in the Crochiere reference, supra.
As is understood by those skilled in the art, digital sampling has the effect of aliasing all frequency bands which begin at multiples of the sample rate into a frequency band having a range from zero to one-half the sample rate fs. If only one such band (beginning at a frequency which is a multiple of the sample rate) is present in the signal being sampled, then the aliasing shifts that band to begin at zero frequency. Therefore, the system according to the present invention can perform the function of demodulation and intermediate frequency demodulation by commutation if the modulation bandwidth and carrier frequency are selected according to the following relationship:
fc -B=(2N)�(2B), fc =(4N+1)B (9)
where N can be selected to be any integer. In the example of the present embodiment of the invention B is 500 Hz, therefore from equation (8) the sample rate should be 2 kHz. The carrier frequency was selected to be near 100 kHz, so N was selected to be 50. Therefore 4 N+1=201 and fc =100.5 kHz.
It is to be understood that the present invention would also perform as intended if the signal generator 1 were an analog oscillator synchronized to the operation of the ADC 24.
It is also contemplated that the generator 1 waveform could also be a square wave, rather than a sinusoid. The preamplifier 18 could then include filtering to remove harmonics of fc to enable recovery of a sinusoid prior to digital sampling and demodulation.
Those skilled in the art will be able to devise additional embodiments and improvements of the present invention which do not depart from the spirit of the invention disclosed herein. Therefore the present invention should be limited in scope only by the claims appended hereto.
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|U.S. Classification
|324/338, 324/76.55
|International Classification
|Cooperative Classification
|European Classification
|Aug 9, 1995
Owner name: WESTERN ATLAS INTERNATIONAL, INC., TEXAS
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