Title
Calibration Method Enabling Low-Cost SDR
Abstract
A digital in-system calibration method is presented eliminating distortions caused by transceiver circuit imperfections such as quadrature imbalance, carrier feedthrough and receiver DC-offset. The method enables standard compliancy over multiple modes and multiple bands while using a low-cost Software Defined Radio (SDR). By using non-iterative algorithms and standard compliant calibration signals, the system remains operational during calibration. As the calibration does not require dedicated circuitry, there is no penalty in area or design effort and is thus applicable on most SDR. Implementation shows Error Vector Magnitude (EVM) performance improvements down to 1.8%.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1109/ICC.2008.918
Beijing
Keywords
Field
DocType
calibration,signal processing,software radio,transceivers,EVM,SDR,digital in-system calibration method,distortion elimination,error vector magnitude performance,noniterative algorithms,software defined radio,transceiver circuit imperfections
Multiple modes,Signal processing,Transceiver,Computer science,Software-defined radio,Real-time computing,Error vector magnitude,Quadrature (mathematics),Feedthrough,Calibration
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1550-3607
978-1-4244-2075-9
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
5
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Björn Debaillie112419.27
van Wesemael, P.2162.78
Jan Craninckx3756181.43