Multiband Simultaneous Reception Front-End with Adaptive Mismatches Correction Algorithm

Abstract : This paper addresses the architecture of multistandard simultaneous reception receivers and aims at improving the performance-power-complexity trade-off of the front-end. To this end we propose a single front-end architecture offering lower complexity and therefore lower power consumption. In order to obtain the same performance as the state of the art receivers, a light weight adaptive method is designed and implemented. It uses a mix of two digital implemented algorithms dedicated to the correction of the frontend IQ mismatches. A study case concerning the simultaneous reception of 802.11g and UMTS signals is developed in this article.