Abstract

Digital polar transmitters are under development for multiband handset applications, but typically lead to excess Rx band noise (RxBN). In this paper, a technique to improve the RxBN of a digital polar transmitter is demonstrated. Linear phase FIR filters are applied to both envelope and phase signals, so that the RxBN becomes relatively insensitive to transmitter non-idealities. At the same time, there is only small degradation of ACLR and EVM. Noise shaping algorithms are also applied to reduce the envelope quantization noise. For a WCDMA signal at 1.75 GHz, with a corresponding Rx band at 1.845 GHz, we demonstrate RxBN of -142 dBm/Hz in simulation and -125 dBm/Hz in experimental measurements.

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