New interpolator and data detector for full digital BPSK demodulator

This work presents a new structure for an all-digital BPSK demodulator developed for space communications that performs simultaneously the sampling and down conversion from intermediate frequency signal to the baseband signal. A new interpolator is proposed in order to simplify the demodulator implementation. This interpolator correlates the samples of the output signal in such way that it was necessary to design a new data detector appropriate to process the samples corrupted by gaussian and colored noise. The effects of the new interpolation at the noise are analyzed as well as the way it affects the whole demodulator performance. Simulations were performed and the results are presented to confirm theoretical analysis.