An Integrated IQ Mixer for SoftwareDefined （软件定义的综合我机）.pdf

High Frequency Design From January 2004 High Frequency Electronics Copyright © Summit Technical Media, LLC INTEGRATED I-Q MIXER An Integrated I-Q Mixer for Software-Defined Radio Applications By Rick Campbell TriQuint Semiconductor he software defined This design case history radio takes advan- provides a lesson in prod- Ttage of digital sig- uct development, describ- nal processing to move ing a new microwave I-Q channel filtering, interfer- mixer that addresses many ence suppression, auto- of the shortcomings found matic gain control, modu- in earlier designs. lation and demodulation from hardware into soft- ware. As shown in Figure 1, the block diagram for a software defined radio includes RF func- tions and analog and digital baseband signal processing. For simple, high volume, low per- formance applications, all of these functions might be implemented on a single chip. For higher performance or lower volume applica- tions, partitioning the radio into a general pur- pose baseband DSP, analog circuitry using standard products, and a few RFICs is a good