Secondary Image The major problem faced while designing a dual conversion heterodyne receiver is the secondary image problem. As shown in the figure, secondary image WIM2 is an IF frequency. BFP1 does not attenuate this signal as it is in …
In cascaded system the Noise Figure (NF) is important in first blocks and it is vice versa in case of IP3, where the NF of last blocks matters more. So in a dual conversion receiver the noise figure of bandpass …
Dual Conversion As discussed in the previous section, ‘Image Rejection vs Channel Selection’, there is a constant trade-off between the two. There is efficient filtering in low wIF, but the image rejection is insufficient, and in high wIF, the Image …
High-side injection: We have a channel, and to do down conversion, this channel is mixed with a local oscillator. There are two options to do this: first, we choose the frequency of the local oscillator (wLO) above the desired channel; …
Heterodyne Receiver In a heterodyne receiver the received signal from an antenna is down converted from RF signal to intermediate frequency. Win is not equal to WLO. The basic structure of heterodyne receiver is shown below. There is an antenna …