Methods and Apparatus for Reducing Own-Transmitter Interference in Low-IF and Zero-IF Receivers
First Claim
1. A radio transceiver circuit, comprising:
- a receiver circuit configured to downconvert, filter, and sample a radio frequency signal comprising a desired signal and a transmitter leakage signal to obtain a sampled signal of interest;
a distortion estimation circuit configured to generate a sampled distortion signal estimate of one or more distortion products of the transmitter leakage signal; and
an interference subtraction circuit configured to combine the sampled distortion signal estimate with the sampled signal of interest to obtain interference-reduced signal samples.
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Abstract
Circuits and methods are disclosed for reducing interference from transmitter leakage in a radio transceiver. An exemplary method for reducing interference from transmitter leakage in a radio transceiver comprises downconverting, filtering, and sampling a radio frequency signal comprising a desired signal and a transmitter leakage signal to obtain a sampled signal of interest. The method further comprises generating a sampled distortion signal estimate that estimates one or more distortion products of the transmitter leakage signal, such as a squared amplitude obtained from a square-law device or corresponding digital function. Finally, the method comprises combining the sampled distortion signal estimate with the sampled signal of interest to obtain interference-reduced signal samples. In some embodiments, this may comprise correlating the sampled distortion signal estimate with the sampled signal of interest to determine a scaling factor, scaling the sampled distortion signal estimate with the scaling factor, and subtracting the scaled distortion signal estimate from the sampled signal of interest to obtain the interference-reduced signal samples.
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23 Claims
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1. A radio transceiver circuit, comprising:
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a receiver circuit configured to downconvert, filter, and sample a radio frequency signal comprising a desired signal and a transmitter leakage signal to obtain a sampled signal of interest; a distortion estimation circuit configured to generate a sampled distortion signal estimate of one or more distortion products of the transmitter leakage signal; and an interference subtraction circuit configured to combine the sampled distortion signal estimate with the sampled signal of interest to obtain interference-reduced signal samples. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13)
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14. A method for reducing interference from transmitter leakage in a radio transceiver, the method comprising:
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downconverting, filtering, and sampling a radio frequency signal comprising a desired signal and a transmitter leakage signal to obtain a sampled signal of interest; generating a sampled distortion signal estimate of one or more distortion products of the transmitter leakage signal; and combining the sampled distortion signal estimate with the sampled signal of interest to obtain interference-reduced signal samples. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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