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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2009
Filed:
May. 24, 2006
Ali Isaac, Bristol, GB;
Nicholas Paul Cowley, Wiltshire, GB;
Ali Isaac, Bristol, GB;
Nicholas Paul Cowley, Wiltshire, GB;
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided for reducing imbalance in a quadrature frequency converter. A test tone generator controlled by an alignment controller supplies a test signal to the input of the frequency converter. A starting point is selected in a solution space addressed by I and Q corrections. The starting point comprises in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) phase correction values. A test is then performed to determine the best direction of movement in the I/Q phase correction plane in order to reduce phase imbalance. The I and Q phase correction values are then moved in that direction towards a phase imbalance minimum.