A Hardware Efficient Passband Equalizer Structure for Data Transmission

A passband digital equalizer is proposed which combines the functions of bandpass filtering and phase splitting with that of adaptive equalization. The new equalizer also provides the in-phase and quadrature outputs required for demodulation. Although input sampling is required at several times the symbol rate (for voice-grade channel applications), outputs need be computed only once per baud. This structure economizes either on front-end analog (phase splitter) filtering or on the number of multiplications required in a digital implementation of a phase splitter and an equalizer. The performance of a receiver incorporating the new equalizer is compared, experimentally, with a receiver using a conventional fractionally spaced ( <tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">T/2</tex> ) equalizer.