Texas Instruments Corporation

Karthik Khanna Subramani

Jaiganesh Balakrishnan

Jawaharlal Tangudu

Sthanunathan Ramakrishnan

Nagarajan Viswanathan

Sashidharan Venkatraman

Sreenath Narayanan Potty

Avinash Vasudev Sakleshpur

A direct down-conversion (DDC) front end receiver includes first Q-channel that filters a sum of PRBS and baseband quadrature signals to generate a first filtered quadrature signal, a second Q-channel that filters a difference of the baseband and PRBS signals to generate a second filtered quadrature signal, a first I-channel and a second I-channel, Q-path and I-path PRBS cancellation blocks for cancelling corresponding PRBS components from sum of first and second filtered quadrature signals and sum of first and second filtered inphase signals respectively, Q-path and I-path sum filter estimation blocks for estimating quadrature and inphase sum filter responses. An IQ mismatch compensation filter estimate and tracking block estimates IQ mismatch compensation filter response from estimated quadrature and inphase sum filter responses, and an IQ mismatch compensation filter filters the modified inphase signal with the IQ mismatch compensation filter response, to generate a filter compensated inphase signal.

Wideband IQ mismatch correction for direct down-conversion receiver

A system can include a close-in tone control configured to detect a set of close-in tones of an interleaved analog to digital converter (IADC) signal and output a trigger signal in response to the detection. The system can also include a close-in tone mismatch estimator configured to determine a correlation and a power estimate for the set of close-in tones in the IADC signal in response to the trigger signal.

Close-in tones

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