1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a complex filter and calibration method, and more particularly, to a complex filter and calibration method capable of utilizing a small amount of easily integrated compensation resistors to realize phase and amplitude calibration.
2. Description of the Prior Art
In the current wireless communications systems, there are two main architectures of receivers capable of achieving high integration and performing multiple modes. One is low intermediate frequency (low IF) receivers, and the other is direct conversion or named zero-IF receivers. The former can avoid direct current (DC) offset and low frequency noise but may meet image-signal interference. On the contrary, the latter is free from image signal interference but is affected by DC (direct current) offset and low-frequency noise.
Nowadays, low IF architectures are widely applied in transmitters and receivers of the wireless communications systems. Therefore, how to reduce image signal interference in a low IF receiver has become an important issue in the industry and academia community. The most common method in a low IF or very low IF receiver is utilizing a mixer to down-convert radio frequency (RF) signals received from an antenna and obtain a pair of orthogonal signals, and utilizing a complex filter to process the orthogonal signals. Please refer to
In the low IF receiver 10 which separately performs analog and digital operations, an important spirit is that channel selection and image signal elimination are done by the complex band-pass filter 110, i.e. signals are processed under a complex operation architecture, in order to accurately control the signal phases. There are different methods for realizing the complex band-pass filter 110, and one is a leapfrog structure. For example,
In addition, since the low IF reception device 10 is divided into analog and digital operations, if the analog part (i.e. before ADC 112) has phase or gain mismatch, it is hard to completely eliminate the mismatch via the digital part. Therefore, the prior art provides different methods focusing on calibrating phases and amplitudes of the orthogonal signals I, Q, for eliminating image signals. However, most of the conventional calibration methods are established upon complicated computations, and cannot be realized by a small amount of elements or elements capable of being easily integrated into the receivers. Besides, extra complicated computations and excessive elements for eliminating image signals can induce power consumption issues.
It is therefore an objective of the present invention to provide a complex filter and calibration method.
The present invention discloses a complex filter for processing an in-phase signal and a quadrature-phase signal. The complex filter includes a first low-pass filter, for receiving the in-phase signal, and outputting a filtering result, a second low-pass filter, for receiving the quadrature-phase signal, and outputting another filtering result, a connection unit, coupled between the first low-pass filter and the second low-pass filter, a first compensation resistor, having one terminal coupled to a terminal of a first input resistor of the first low-pass filter, which does not receives the in-phase signal, and another terminal coupled to a terminal of a second input resistor of the second low-pass filter, which receives the quadrature-phase signal, and a second compensation resistor, having one terminal coupled to a terminal of the second input resistor, which does not receive the quadrature-phase signal, and another terminal coupled to a terminal of the first input resistor, which receives the in-phase signal.
The present invention further discloses a calibration method for eliminating a mismatch between an in-phase signal and a quadrature-phase signal in a receiver. The receiver includes a complex filter for filtering image signals of the in-phase signal and the quadrature-phase signal, a first compensation resistor having one terminal coupled to a terminal of a first input resistor of the complex filter, which does not receive the in-phase signal, and another terminal coupled to a terminal of a second input resistor of the complex filter, which receives the quadrature-phase signal, and a second compensation resistor having one terminal coupled to a terminal of the second input resistor, which does not receive the quadrature-phase signal, and another terminal coupled to a terminal of the first input resistor, which receives the in-phase signal. The calibration method includes receiving the in-phase signal and the quadrature-phase signal; and determining a ratio of the second input resistor to the first input resistor according to an amplitude mismatch between the in-phase signal and the quadrature-phase signal.
These and other objectives of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment that is illustrated in the various figures and drawings.
The present invention utilizes a small amount of easily integrated compensation elements to improve mismatch between the in-phase signal I and the quadrature-phase signal Q. The concept of the present invention is illustrated as follows.
First, take
and an imaginary component
of the image signal, respectively.
Then, after the real component
and the imaginary component
of the image signal pass through a first-order complex band-pass filter shown in
If an analog part of the receiver has a phase or gain mismatch, it can be equivalently expressed as a mismatch between oscillating signals such as sinusoidal signals. Therefore, a gain mismatch can be expressed as an amplitude ratio εratio between the oscillating signals, and a phase mismatch can be expressed as a phase difference θε between the oscillating signals, as shown in
while the imaginary component becomes
In order to eliminate affection caused by the amplitude and/or phase mismatch between the oscillating signals, an embodiment of the present invention adds resistors Rθ1, Rθ2 in the first-order complex band-pass filter of
When the amplitudes and phases of the oscillating signals are mismatched, the following equations can be obtained after the real component
and the imaginary component
of the image signals pass through the first-order complex band-pass filter shown in
By observing Yre(−ω
and Rθ1>>Ri2, Yre(−ω
then let
the following can be obtained:
Similarly, for Yim(−ω
and Rθ1>>Ri2, Yim(−ω
then let
the following can be obtained:
As can be seen from the above, after the resistors Rθ1, Rθ2 are added, the amplitude mismatch between the in-phase signal I and the quadrature-phase signal Q can be eliminated by adjusting a ratio
of two input resistors of the complex band-pass filter, and the phase mismatch between the in-phase signal I and the quadrature-phase signal Q can be eliminated by adjusting a ratio
of the input resistor Ri1.to the resistor Rθ2. In other words, the amplitude and phase mismatch of the signals I, Q can be independently eliminated. As a result, complexity can be significantly reduced, and more importantly, the present invention adds compensation resistors interlacedly coupled to the input resistors in the original complex band-pass filter, and then adjusts resistances of the input resistors and the compensation resistors regarding amplitude (gain) and phase, respectively, so as to compensate the amplitude and phase mismatches.
In
In a word, the present invention adds compensation resistors interlacedly coupled to the input resistors in the complex band-pass filter, and then adjusts the resistances of the input resistors and the compensation resistors with respect to amplitude (gain) and phase, to compensate the amplitude and phase mismatches. Noticeably, the above description and embodiment take the first-order leapfrog complex band-pass filter for example. In practical, the same concept can be applied to a leapfrog complex band-pass filter of any order, such as third order, fifth order, etc., or of a different type, such as differential. A complex band-pass filter can be seen as a combination of a first low-pass filter, a second low-pass filter and connection units between the first low-pass filter and the second low-pass filter. The concept of the present invention is not to modify the original structure of the complex band-pass filter, but to utilize a small amount of easily integrated compensation resistors and realize phase and amplitude calibration. Therefore, those skilled in the art can easily apply the spirit of the present invention to other complex band-pass filters according to the above.
For example, please refer to
In
Furthermore, when the capacitances of the input resistors Ri1, Ri2 and the compensation resistors Rθ1, Rθ2 are adjusted to compensate the amplitude and phase mismatches, it is preferably to calibrate a single sinusoidal image signal, and calibrate the gain first, then the phase. That is, the ratio of the input resistors Ri1, Ri2 is adjusted to minimize power of the image signal outputted by the complex filter first, and then the ratio
of the input resistor Ri1 to the resistor Rθ2 or the ratio
of the input resistor Ri2 to the resistor Rθ1 is adjusted to minimize power of the image signal outputted by the complex filter.
Therefore, the gain and phase calibration of the leapfrog complex band-pass filter can be summarized into a calibration process 90, as shown in
Step 900: Start.
Step 902: Form a first compensation resistor having one terminal coupled to a terminal of a first input resistor of the complex filter, which does not receive the in-phase signal I, and another terminal coupled to a terminal of a second input resistor of the complex filter, which receives the quadrature-phase signal Q.
Step 904: Form a second compensation resistor having one terminal coupled to a terminal of the second input resistor, which does not receive the quadrature-phase signal Q, and another terminal coupled to a terminal of the first input resistor, which receives the in-phase signal I.
Step 906: Determine a ratio of the second input resistor to the first input resistor according to an amplitude mismatch between the in-phase signal I and the quadrature-phase signal Q.
Step 908: Determine a ratio of the first input resistor to the second compensation resistor according to a phase mismatch between the in-phase signal I and the quadrature-phase signal Q.
Step 910: End.
Detailed description of the calibration process 90 can be referred to the above, which is not narrated herein.
To sum up, the present invention adds compensation resistors interlacedly coupled to the input resistors in the complex band-pass filter, and then adjusts the resistances of the input resistors and the compensation resistors with respect to amplitude and phase portions, such that the gain and phase mismatches can be compensated. Therefore, the present invention does not need to modify the original structure of the complex band-pass filter, and only utilizes a small amount of easily integrated compensation resistors to realize phase and amplitude calibration, which neither needs complicated computations, nor adds excessive energy consumption, and therefore significantly improves efficiency of gain and phase calibration.
Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention.
Number | Date | Country | Kind |
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098142310 | Dec 2009 | TW | national |