Receiver and transmitter calibration to compensate for frequency dependent i/q imbalance

Abstract

A receiver, which is adapted for demodulating signal carriers at variable frequencies to provide received signals at a plurality of different received frequencies, is calibrated to compensate for a frequency-dependent imbalance in the amplitude and/or the quadrature phase of analog in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) received-signal components that have passed through receiver circuit paths that may cause such imbalance. I-channel and Q-channel Rx-correction coefficients for each of a plurality of different calibration frequencies are estimated and stored in a lookup table. Rx-correction coefficients for a calibration frequency or frequencies that are the same as or closest to the received frequency or frequencies are accessed from the lookup table and combined with digital I and Q components of received signals that have been provided by analog-to-digital conversion of analog I and Q components of received signals that have passed through the imbalance-causing receiver circuit paths upon demodulation at the received frequency.