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Wireless Receivers: Architectures and Image Rejection

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As early as Armstrong invented the heterodyne receiver architecture eight decades ago [1], the image rejection had emerged as an important issue in the design of a radio receiver. The image problem arises from the fact that radio interferer at the image frequency will be downconverted to the same intermediate frequency (IF) as the desired signal and therefore corrupt it. The traditional method for rejecting the image interferer is to use a high quality factor (Q-factor) band-pass filter before the RF mixer. At that time all the electrical components were discrete, so was the image-reject filter. Currently, a majority of those discrete components can be put together to a small integrated circuit die, but hardly the image-reject filters. For high level receiver integration, this approach is not favoured.

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Pun, KP., da Franca, J.E., Azeredo-Leme, C. (2003). Wireless Receivers: Architectures and Image Rejection. In: Circuit Design for Wireless Communications. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 728. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3737-0_2

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