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  • An Algorithm to Evaluate Imbalances of Quadrature Mixers

    Koji ASAMI  Michiaki ARAI  

     
    PAPER-Measurement Technology

      Vol:
    E92-A No:4
      Page(s):
    1223-1229

    It is essential, as bandwidths of wireless communications get wider, to evaluate the imbalances among quadrature mixer ports, in terms of carrier phase offset, IQ gain imbalance, and IQ skew. Because it is time consuming to separate skew, gain imbalance and carrier phase offset evaluation during test is often performed using a composite value, without separation of the imbalance factors. This paper describes an algorithm for enabling separation among quadrature mixer gain imbalance, carrier phase offset, and skew. Since the test time is reduced by the proposed method, it can be applied during high volume production testing.