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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 12, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Niranjan Anand Talwalkar, San Jose, CA (US);
Sanjay Kasturia, Los Altos, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A QAM transmitter is disclosed that may reduce the frequency of local clock signals and/or reduce the switching frequency of driver circuits when generating a QAM output signal for transmission. The QAM transmitter may generate a number of PWM signals indicative of in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signal components, and then use one or more selected even-order harmonics of the PWM signals to generate the QAM output signal. Odd-order harmonics of the PWM signals may be suppressed by selectively combining the PWM signals, and any remaining unwanted even-order harmonics may be suppressed using filters.