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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 22, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 08, 2010
Joel I. Goodman, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Benjamin A. Miller, Cambridge, MA (US);
Matthew A. Herman, Boston, MA (US);
James Edwin Vian, Westford, MA (US);
Joel I. Goodman, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Benjamin A. Miller, Cambridge, MA (US);
Matthew A. Herman, Boston, MA (US);
James Edwin Vian, Westford, MA (US);
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Complex polyphase nonlinear equalizer (cpNLEQs) mitigate nonlinear distortions generated by complex in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) time-interleaved analog-to-digital converters (TIADCs). Example cpNLEQs upsample the digital waveform emitted by the TIADC, e.g., by a factor of two, then separate the upsampled digital waveform into upsampled in-phase and quadrature components. Processors in the cpNLEQs create real and imaginary nonlinear compensation terms from the upsampled in-phase and quadrature components. The nonlinear compensation terms are downsampled, and the downsampled imaginary nonlinear compensation term is phase-shifted, then combined with the downsampled real component to produce an estimated residual distortion. Subtracting the estimated residual distortion from the digital waveform emitted by the TIADC yields an equalized digital waveform suitable for further processing.