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Single-side band mixer to measure I/Q accuracy
Feb 18th, 2008, 4:41am
 
Hi, folks:

I'm calculating how much spur will SSB mixer see, due to I/Q inaccuracy? For example, if there is 1 degree mismatch for I/Q, how much spur should I see?
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Re: Single-side band mixer to measure I/Q accuracy
Reply #1 - Feb 18th, 2008, 6:24am
 
Spur will be about -41 dBc.
In the absense of any other mismatches, nonlinearities or crosstalk you can calculate it by 20*LOG10[tan(IQphaseerror/2)]
Often such things are represented by "image" sideband contours levels on IQ amplitude and phase mismatch Cartesian axis.

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Reply #2 - Feb 24th, 2008, 2:15am
 
Thanks for the reply.

I agree with -41dbc. However, I think the equation should be sin(delta) instead of tan(delta). They have similar value when mismatch (delta) is small.
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Reply #3 - Feb 24th, 2008, 5:57am
 
No it is tan(phaseerror/2) not sin

It comes from the 10*LOG10{[1-cos(phaseerror)]/[1+cos(phaseerror)]} which is equal to 20*LOG10[tan(IQphaseerror/2)]

Look at Razavi RF microelectronics for derivation or

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel5/4138799/4138800/04138864.pdf

A key thing is that in a SSB IQ modulator error vectors which cause the "image" sideband, i.e quadrature phase error and quadrature amplitude error, are orthogonal. Therefore you can null both phase and amplitude error independantly.
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Reply #4 - Feb 25th, 2008, 3:33am
 
Oh... Yes. I think i assumed cos(mismatch)=1 during derivitation. Thanks for the head up.
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