Calibration of direct-conversion transceivers

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 488-498

  Debaillie, Björn ^a   Van Wesemael, Peter ^a   Vandersteen, Gerd ^a,b   Craninckx, Jan ^a  

^a IMEC   (Belgium)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Calibration; Circuit impairments; Direct conversion transceiver; Implementation; Measurements

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION METHOD; CARRIER FEEDTHROUGH; CIRCUIT IMPAIRMENTS; DC OFFSETS; DIGITAL DOMAIN; DIRECT CONVERSION; DIRECT-CONVERSION TRANSCEIVER; DIRECT-CONVERSION TRANSCEIVERS; DVB-T/H; IMPLEMENTATION; LOW-COMPLEXITY; NON-ITERATIVE; QUADRATURE IMBALANCE; RE-CONFIGURABLE; TRANSCEIVER DESIGN; TRANSMITTER AND RECEIVER; WIRELESS INTERFACES;

FREQUENCY SYNTHESIZERS; TRANSCEIVERS; TRANSMITTERS; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

CALIBRATION;

EID: 66949125068     PISSN: 19324553     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTSP.2009.2020564     Document Type: Article

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