Adaptive IIP2 calibration

• US 8,060,043 B2
• Filed: 10/09/2008
• Issued: 11/15/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/09/2008
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: North Star Innovations Inc. (Wi-LAN Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Freescale Semiconductor (NXP Semiconductors NV)
• Inventors: Pratt, Patrick, Sobchak, Charles Leroy
• Primary Examiner(s): Le, Nhan
• Application Number:
  US12/248,421
• Publication Number:
  US 20100093298A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,132 Days
• Field of Search: 455/230, 455/232.1, 455/234.1, 455255-260, 455/323, 455/334, 375/345
• US Class Current: 455/234.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/109 by improving strong signal performance of the receiver when strong unwanted signals are present at the receiver input
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 17/21 for calibration; for correcting measurements

Abstract

A radio frequency transceiver (102), including a transmitter (104), a duplexer (108) and a direct-conversion receiver (106) including a mixer (140 and 141). An IIP2 calibration system (170), coupled to the transceiver, includes an IIP2 coefficient estimator (172) for calculating an estimate of second-order distortion intermodulation distortion, and an IIP2 controller (174) for adjusting an IIP2 tuning port of the mixer in the receiver to minimize second-order distortion intermodulation distortion in the receiver that may be caused by the receiver receiving a transmit RF signal leaking through the duplexer.

Claims

1. A radio frequency transceiver, comprising:

a duplexer;

a transmitter coupled to the duplexer;

a receiver including a mixer, coupled to the duplexer, wherein the receiver receives a leaked signal comprising a transmit RF signal leaked through the duplexer; and

a calibration system, the calibration system including

an estimator, coupled to the transmitter and to the receiver, for calculating an estimate of second-order intermodulation distortion in the receiver as a result of second-order intermodulation distortion occurring in the mixer, wherein the estimator uses a live transmit signal from the transmitter as reference signal, and

a controller, coupled to the estimator, for adjusting an input-related, second-order intercept (IIP2) point tuning port of the mixer, based on the estimate of second-order intermodulation distortion in the receiver, to reduce second-order intermodulation distortion in the receiver.

2. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 1, wherein the estimator eliminates direct current from a baseband receive signal, while calculating the estimate of second-order intermodulation distortion.

3. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 2, including state machines for configuring the estimator and the controller, the configuring being based on a power output of the transmitter and a received signal strength of the receiver.

4. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 3, wherein a state machine sets a gain of the estimator and a rate of the controller, based on a ratio of transmit power of the transmitter to detected received signal strength of the receiver.

5. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 4, wherein the controller uses a sign-sign least means squared optimization algorithm to estimate IIP2 coefficients.

6. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 5, wherein the sign-sign least means squared optimization algorithm has a variable step size, the variable step size depending on magnitudes of the estimates of the IIP2 coefficients.

7. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 6, wherein the receiver is a direct-conversion receiver.

8. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 7, wherein the transmitter transmits simultaneously as the direct-conversion receiver receives.

9. A radio frequency transceiver, comprising:

a duplexer;

a transmitter coupled to the duplexer;

a direct-conversion receiver including a mixer, coupled to the duplexer, wherein the receiver receives a leaked signal comprising a transmit RF signal leaked through the duplexer;

circuitry that determines a transmit power output of the transmitter;

circuitry that determines a received signal strength indication of the receiver;

circuitry that determines a linear gain between baseband of the transmitter and baseband of the receiver; and

a calibration system, including

circuitry, coupled to baseband of the transmitter, that determines a filtered, delayed, amplitude squared version of a baseband transmit signal,

circuitry that multiplies the filtered, delayed, amplitude squared version of a baseband transmit signal with the linear gain to produce a first signal,

circuitry that compares the first signal with a baseband receive signal that includes a second-order intermodulation distortion product produced in the mixer from the leaked signal, wherein the circuitry that compares uses a version of a sign-sign least means squared optimization algorithm for estimating a value of an input-related, second-order intercept (IIP2) coefficient that is proportional to the second-order intermodulation distortion product produced in the mixer, and

circuitry that produces, in response to results from the optimization algorithm, a tuning voltage for tuning an IIP2 port of the mixer to reduce the second-order intermodulation distortion occurring in the mixer.

10. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 9, wherein the transmitter transmits simultaneously as the direct-conversion receiver receives.

11. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 10, wherein the calibration system includes circuitry that compensates for any DC offset in the baseband receive signal while the calibration system compares the first signal with a baseband receive signal, to reduce degradation of the estimation by the presence of the DC offset.

12. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 11, wherein the circuitry that compensates uses a sign-sign least means squared optimization algorithm to estimate the IIP2 coefficient.

13. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 12, wherein the sign-sign least means squared optimization algorithm has a variable step size, the variable step size depending on a magnitude of the IIP2 coefficient estimation.

14. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 10, wherein the calibration system includes circuitry that compensates only for a certain type of DC offset in the baseband receive signal while comparing the first signal with a baseband receive signal to reduce degradation of the estimation by the presence of the DC offset, the certain type of DC offset being the type of DC offset caused by effects other than second-order intermodulation distortion in the mixer.

15. The radio frequency transceiver of claim 10, in which the radio frequency transceiver is implemented in an integrated circuit.