A multicarrier GMSK modulator

Abstract

A multicarrier Gaussian minimum shift keying (GMSK) modulator has been developed and implemented. The design contains four GMSK modulators, which generate GMSK modulated carriers at the specified center frequencies. Utilization of the redundancy in the stored waveforms reduces the size of the GMSK trajectory look-up table to less than one-quarter of the original size in the modulator. Conventionally, the power ramping and output power level controlling are performed in the analog domain. A novel digital ramp generator and output power level controller perform both the burst ramping and the dynamic power control in the digital domain. The power control is realized by scaling the ramp curve, which follows a raised cosine/sine curve. The four GMSK modulated signals are combined together in the digital domain. The digital multicarrier GMSK modulator is designed to fulfil the spectrum and phase error specifications of the GSM 900 and DCS 1800 base stations.