Nxp B.v.

Tjeu Van Ansem

Robert Rutten

Jan Van Sinderen

Evert-Jan Pol

Frits Anthonie Steenhof

Peter Van De Haar

Niels Gabriel

Juergen Richard Marschner

Peter Blinzer

Francoise Jeannette Harmsze

Joerg Heinrich Walter Wenzel

Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to in-phase/quadrature (IQ) mismatch detection and correction in radio frequency receivers. According to a specific example, a method of manufacture or use comprises, in a quadrature radio-frequency receiver configured to process signals using I and Q components, providing parameters indicative of IQ mismatches associated with circuitry of the quadrature radio-frequency receiver due to changes in signal gain. The method further includes, while using the quadrature radio-frequency receiver to receive and process a received radio signal, correcting for the IQ mismatches by using the parameters in response to actual signal gain change.

Quadrature radio receiver with gain-dependent mismatch correction

The disclosure relates to an IQ mismatch correction module for a radio receiver, the IQ mismatch correction module comprising: an input terminal configured to receive an input signal; an output terminal configured to provide a filtered output signal; a mismatch detection module comprising: one or more bandpass filters configured to receive, from the input terminal or output terminal, a bandpass input signal and to pass a plurality of sub-bands of the bandpass input signal to provide respective bandpass filtered signals; one or more amplitude and phase mismatch detectors configured to determine amplitude and phase mismatch coefficients based on the bandpass filtered signals from the plurality of sub-bands; a transformation unit configured to apply a transformation to the amplitude and phase mismatch coefficients to provide correction filter coefficients for the plurality of sub-bands; and a filter module configured to: receive the filter coefficients for the plurality of sub-bands from the mismatch detection module; and filter the input signal in accordance with the received filter coefficients to provide the filtered output signal.

IQ mismatch correction module

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Gemert-Bakel, Netherlands

Tjeu Van Ansem