Title
Analytical Investigation of LPF Mismatch in Direct Conversion Receivers
Abstract
This paper analytically investigates the impact of low pass filter (LPF) mismatch in direct conversion receivers, which is a main source of frequency selective (FS) I/Q imbalance. Assuming a practical Elliptic LPF realized by active RC (resistor and capacitor) architecture, the LPF mismatch is mainly resulted from the non-ideal RCs in the circuit. The relationships between the imperfect RCs and the LPF mismatch and also the I/Q imbalance are analyzed using a first order Taylor expansion approximation. Close-form expressions are derived for the LPF mismatch variance and front end image leakage ratio (ILR), which are further verified by simulations. It is shown that for RC matching inaccuracies and tolerances less than 5%, the LPF mismatch (or the FS I/Q imbalance) is dominated by the RC matching inaccuracy, while the influence of RC tolerances is negligible. Moreover, simulations are carried out to investigate the impact of I/Q imbalance on the BER performance. It is shown that for both orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier-frequency division multiple access (SC-FDMA), the bit error rate (BER) is seriously degraded by FS I/Q imbalance and an error floor will occur. In addition, the BER of OFDM is even worse than that of SC-FDMA, due to the poor image attenuation near the cutting off frequency. Therefore, compensation for the FS I/Q imbalance is always recommended, especially for OFDM systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6134537
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
poor image attenuation,lpf mismatch,mobile communication,bit error rate,error floor,front end image leakage ratio,practical elliptic lpf,ofdm modulation,orthogonal frequency division multiplexing,taylor expansion approximation,low pass filter mismatch,ofdm system,nonideal rc,frequency selective i-q imbalance,single-carrier-frequency division multiple access,fs i/q imbalance,active rc architecture,ber performance,radio receivers,direct conversion receiver,resistors,front end,matched filters,first order,taylor expansion,taylor series,ofdm,low pass filter,manufacturing,matched filter
Topology,Capacitor,Telecommunications,Leakage (electronics),Computer science,Real-time computing,Resistor,Low-pass filter,Attenuation,Matched filter,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Bit error rate
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
null
null
1930-529X E-ISBN : 978-1-4244-9267-1
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-9267-1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yiqing Zhou197375.42
Zhengang Pan271452.68
Yucheng Zhang383.89
Yuan Yao4235.52
Jinlong Hu5354.08