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by Krishna Sankar on January 31, 2013
The post on IQ imbalance in transmitter, briefly discussed the effect of amplitude and phase imbalance and also showed that IQ imbalance results in spectrum at the image frequency. In this article, we will quantify [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on September 30, 2012
In typical wireless system simulations, there is a need to model the phase noise profile of the local oscillator. For eg, the phase noise profile of the oscillator can be of the shape described in [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on August 28, 2012
The earlier posts on phase noise discussed about phase noise in oscillators, conversion of phase noise profile to jitter and the impact of phase noise on the error vector magnitude (evm). This post discuss the [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on July 9, 2012
The previous post on phase noise discussed about finding the root mean square phase noise for a given phase noise profile. In this post let us discuss about the impact of phase noise on the [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on June 22, 2012
Following a brief discussion with my friend Mr. Rethnakaran Pulikkoonattu on phase noise profiles, he pointed me to his write up on Oscillator Phase Noise and Sampling Clock Jitter . In this post, we will discuss the math behind integrating [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on June 8, 2012
Oscillators are used in typical radio circuits to drive the mixer used for the up-conversion or down-conversion of the passband transmission. Ideally, the spectrum of the oscillator is expected to have an impulse at the [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on May 6, 2012
This post discuss about the thermal noise in RC low pass filter. Using the noise equivalent model using resistor with a voltage source, which gets passed through a no noise RC low pass filter. [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on April 21, 2012
Following the discussion on thermal noise and it’s modeling and noise figure computation for a simple resistor network, in this article let us discuss the Noise Figure of cascaded stages.
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by Krishna Sankar on April 13, 2012
The post on thermal noise described the noise produced by resistor ohms over bandwidth at temperature Kelvin. In this post, let us define the noise voltage at the input and output of a resistor network and further use it to [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on March 25, 2012
A friend called me up couple of days back with the question – How white is AWGN? I gave him an answer over phone, which he was not too happy about. That got me thinking [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on February 22, 2012
My friend and colleague Mr. Vineet Srivastava pointed me to a nice article on clock jitter - Clock Jitter Effects on Sampling : A tutorial – by Carlos Azeredo-Leme, IEEE Circuits and Systems Magazine, Third Quarter [...]
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by Krishna Sankar on March 8, 2009
Typical communication systems use I-Q modulation and we had discussed the need for I-Q modulation in the past. In this post, let us understand I-Q imbalance and its effect on transmit signal.
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by Krishna Sankar on April 5, 2008
Post describes about the need for I-Q modulation by comparing the spectral efficiency of passband PAM and passband QAM.
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by Krishna Sankar on April 8, 2007
In a previous post, the variance of the in-band quantization noise for a first order sigma delta modulator was derived. Taking it one step furhter, let us find the variance of the quantization noise filtered [...]
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