On-chip IQ imbalance and LO leakage calibration for transceivers

L Smaini, N Fong, SW Son, B Wang - US Patent 7,856,048, 2010 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND A transceiver both transmits and receives signals. Both the transmitter and
the receiver can have signal processing impairments. Impairments can include path …

Self-calibrating multi-port circuit and method

X Huang, M Caron - US Patent 7,822,147, 2010 - Google Patents
The invention provides a type-based method to compensate for distortions in circuits
operating on a plurality of input modulated signals to form one or more output modulated …

Multi-carrier amplifier linearization system and method

X Huang, Z Zhu, M Caron - US Patent 8,532,215, 2013 - Google Patents
The invention relates to a method and circuit for linearizing amplifiers and other nonlinear
circuits for multi-carrier signals. An output signal from the amplifier is sampled, and a …

Systems and methods for concurrent spectrum usage within actively used spectrum

SG Perlman, A Forenza, M Di Dio, F Saibi - US Patent 11,190,947, 2021 - Google Patents
Abstract Systems and methods are described to concurrently utilize actively used spectrum
for new TDD or FDD networks, and also for enabling Distributed-Input Distributed Output …

Hardware efficient RF transceiver I/Q imbalance compensation based upon taylor approximation

HT Jensen - US Patent 7,349,677, 2008 - Google Patents
Communication systems are known to Support wireless and wire lined communications
between wireless and/or wire lined communication devices. Such communication systems …

Wideband quadrature error correction

R Hormis, SR Bal, KG Gard, J Fan, DJ McLaurin… - US Patent …, 2016 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A transmission module is provided that includes a transmitter, a loopback
receiver, and a QEC controller. In a first state, the QEC controller calibrates the loopback …

Wideband quadrature error detection and correction

R Hormis, SR Bal, A Montalvo, DJ McLaurin… - US Patent …, 2021 - Google Patents
A transmission module is provided that includes a transmitter, a loopback receiver, and a
QEC controller. The QEC controller identifies quadrature imbalance in the transmitter based …

On-Chip IQ imbalance and LO leakage calibration for transceivers

L Smaini, N Fong, SW Son, B Wang - US Patent 8,284,824, 2012 - Google Patents
The disclosure can provide methods and systems for autocalibrating a transceiver. The
method can include upconverting a bandpass input signal by mixing the bandpass input …

Method for determining and compensating transceiver non-idealities

S De Rore - US Patent 8,634,496, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for estimating transceiver non-idealities is dis closed. In one
aspect, the method comprises generating a preamble comprising multiple sets of known …

Digital pre-distortion technique using nonlinear filters

KV Cai, DB Rutan, MS Gorder… - US Patent 7,606,322, 2009 - Google Patents
The need in the art is addressed by the linearizer and method of the present invention. In a
most general embodi ment, the inventive linearizer includes a characterizer coupled to an …