Patent Publication Number: US-8526903-B2

Title: High-linearity receiver with transmit leakage cancellation

Description:
BACKGROUND 
     I. Field 
     The present disclosure relates generally to electronics, and more specifically to a receiver for a wireless communication system. 
     II. Background 
     A wireless device in a wireless full-duplex communication system can simultaneously transmit and receive data for two-way communication. In the transmit path, a transmitter within the wireless device may modulate a local oscillator (LO) signal with data to obtain a modulated signal and may amplify this modulated signal to obtain a transmit signal having the proper signal level. The transmit signal may be routed through a duplexer and transmitted via an antenna to a base station. In the receive path, a receiver within the wireless device may obtain a received signal via the antenna and the duplexer. The receiver may amplify, filter, and downconvert the received signal to obtain baseband signals, which may be further processed to recover data transmitted by the base station. 
     For a full-duplex wireless device, the circuitry within the receiver may observe interference from the transmitter. For example, a portion of the transmit signal may leak from the duplexer to the receiver, and the leaked signal (which is commonly referred to as a transmit (TX) leakage signal) may cause interference to a desired signal within the received signal. Since the transmit signal and the desired signal typically reside in two different frequency bands, the TX leakage signal can normally be filtered and typically does not pose a problem in itself. However, the TX leakage signal may interact with a jammer to generate cross modulation distortion components on both sides of the jammer. A jammer is a large amplitude undesired signal that is close in frequency to a desired signal. Some distortion components from the interaction between the TX leakage signal and the jammer may fall within the signal band of the desired signal and would not be filtered out. These distortion components would act as additional noise that may degrade performance. Furthermore, the TX leakage signal may go through a downconverter in the receiver and cause second-order distortion, which is proportional to the square of the TX leakage signal power. 
     There is therefore a need in the art for techniques to mitigate the deleterious effects of a TX leakage signal in a wireless device. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  shows a block diagram of a portion of a wireless device. 
         FIGS. 2A ,  2 B and  2 C show a received signal, a downconverter input signal, and a downconverter output signal, respectively. 
         FIGS. 3A and 3B  show two exemplary designs of a receiver with TX leakage cancellation. 
         FIG. 4  shows a model of the receiver with TX leakage cancellation. 
         FIG. 5  shows a frequency response of a complex notch filter. 
         FIGS. 6 ,  7  and  8  show three designs of a downconverter, a complex notch filter, and an upconverter within a TX leakage canceller. 
         FIG. 9  shows a process for performing TX leakage cancellation. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     The word “exemplary” is used herein to mean “serving as an example, instance, or illustration.” Any design described herein as “exemplary” is not necessarily to be construed as preferred or advantageous over other designs. 
     A receiver with TX leakage cancellation described herein may be used for various wireless full-duplex communication systems. For example, the receiver may be used for Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) systems, Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) systems, Frequency Division Multiple Access (FDMA) systems, Orthogonal FDMA (OFDMA) systems, etc. A CDMA system may implement a radio technology such as Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA), cdma2000, etc. UTRA includes Wideband CDMA (W-CDMA) and other variants of CDMA. cdma2000 covers IS-2000 (commonly known as “1x”), IS-95, and IS-856 (commonly known as “1xEV-DO”). These various radio technologies and standards are known in the art. 
       FIG. 1  shows a block diagram of a portion of a wireless device  100 . Within a transmitter  120 , an upconverter  122  receives and frequency upconverts an output signal with a transmit LO (TX LO) signal and provides a modulated signal. A power amplifier (PA)  124  amplifies the modulated signal and provides a transmit signal, which is routed through a duplexer  112  and transmitted via an antenna  110  to one or more base stations. A portion of the transmit signal couples or leaks through duplexer  112  to a receiver  130 . The amount of TX leakage is dependent on the amount of isolation between the transmit and receive ports of duplexer  112 . The amount of isolation may be dependent on the type of duplexer, the frequency band, etc. A lower TX-RX isolation corresponds to higher level of TX leakage. 
     A received signal containing a desired signal and possibly a jammer is received via antenna  110 , routed through duplexer  112 , and provided to receiver  130 . Within receiver  130 , a low noise amplifier (LNA)  140  receives a receiver input signal containing the received signal from antenna  110  as well as the TX leakage signal from transmitter  120 . LNA  140  amplifies the receiver input signal and provides an amplified signal. A surface acoustic wave (SAW) filter  142  filters the amplified signal to remove out of band signal components (e.g., the TX leakage signal) and provides a filtered signal. A downconverter  150  frequency downconverts the filtered signal. Within downconverter  150 , a transconductance amplifier  152  amplifies the filtered signal from SAW filter  142 . A mixer  154  frequency downconverts the signal from amplifier  152  with a receive LO (RX LO) signal and provides a downconverted signal. 
       FIG. 2A  shows the received signal, which includes a desired signal  212  and a jammer  214 . Jammer  214  is an undesired signal and may correspond to, for example, a signal transmitted by a nearby base station in an Advanced Mobile Phone Service (AMPS) system. The jammer may have an amplitude that is much higher than that of the desired signal and may be located close in frequency to the desired signal. The desired signal is centered at a receive frequency of f RX , which is dependent on the frequency channel and band being received. The jammer is centered at a frequency of f J , which may be below the receive frequency (as shown in  FIG. 2A ) or above the receive frequency (not shown in  FIG. 2A ). 
       FIG. 2B  shows the signal at the input of downconverter  150  in  FIG. 1 . The downconverter input signal contains desired signal  212  and jammer  214  in the received signal as well as a TX leakage signal  216  from transmitter  120 . The TX leakage signal may have a large amplitude relative to the desired signal because the transmit signal may be much larger in amplitude than the desired signal. The TX leakage signal is centered at a transmit frequency of f TX .  FIG. 2B  assumes that LNA  140  has sufficiently high linearity and that distortion components generated by non-linearity of LNA  140  are sufficiently low. High linearity may be achieved for LNA  140  by using techniques such as modified derivative superposition (MDS) or post distortion cancellation (PDC), which are known by those skilled in the art. 
       FIG. 2C  shows the signal at the output of downconverter  150 . The desired signal may be downconverted to DC with direct downconversion (as shown in  FIG. 2C ) or to an intermediate frequency (IF) with super-heterodyne downconversion (not shown in  FIG. 2C ). Non-linearity of amplifier  152  and/or mixer  154  in  FIG. 1  can cause the modulation on TX leakage signal  216  to be transferred to narrowband jammer  214 , which then results in a widened spectrum  218  around the jammer. This spectral widening is referred to as cross modulation. As shown in  FIG. 2C , a portion  220  of widened spectrum  218  falls within the desired signal band. Portion  220  (which is shown with shading) acts as additional noise that degrades the performance of the wireless device. This noise further degrades the receiver sensitivity so that the smallest desired signal that can be reliably detected by the receiver would need to have larger amplitude. 
     SAW filter  142  may be used to filter or attenuate the TX leakage signal and mitigate its deleterious effects. The use of a SAW filter for TX leakage rejection may be undesirable for several reasons. First, the SAW filter is normally a discrete component that is not fabricated on a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and thus occupies space on a circuit board. Second, the SAW filter typically requires other discrete components for input and output impedance matching. Third, the SAW filter and its impedance matching circuitry increase the cost and size of the wireless device. 
     In an aspect, the TX leakage signal may be canceled within the receiver in order to relax the linearity requirements of the downconverter. The TX leakage cancellation may be performed in various manners and at various locations within the receiver, as described below. 
       FIG. 3A  shows a block diagram of an exemplary design of a receiver  330   a  with TX leakage cancellation. Receiver  330   a  includes an LNA  340 , a downconverter  350 , and a TX leakage canceller  360 . Downconverter  350  is coupled to the output of LNA  340  and includes a transconductance amplifier  352  and a mixer  354 . LNA  340  and downconverter  350  operate as described in  FIG. 1 . 
     In the exemplary design shown in  FIG. 3A , TX leakage canceller  360  senses the TX leakage signal at the output of LNA  340  and cancels the TX leakage signal at the input of LNA  340 . TX leakage canceller  360  receives a canceller input signal, which may be an attenuated version of the signal at the output of LNA  340 . 
     Within TX leakage canceller  360 , a downconverter  368  downconverts the canceller input signal with the TX LO signal and provides a downconverted signal having the TX leakage signal centered at direct current (DC). A notch filter  370  filters the downconverted signal to pass the TX leakage signal and to attenuate the desired signal, the jammer, and cross modulation distortion components. Notch filter  370  may be designed to have good phase margin in order to avoid instability in the TX leakage cancellation feedback loop. An upconverter  372  upconverts the filtered signal from notch filter  370  with the TX LO signal and provides a feedback signal having the TX leakage signal centered at the transmit frequency. A summer  374  subtracts the feedback signal from the receiver input signal and provides an LNA input signal to LNA  340 . Summer  374  may be a summing node that sums two current signals. 
     In another exemplary design, summer  374  is placed between the output of LNA  340  and the input of amplifier  352 , and TX leakage canceller  360  receives the canceller input signal from summer  374 . In this exemplary design, the TX leakage cancellation may be performed at the output of LNA  340 . 
       FIG. 3B  shows a block diagram of an exemplary design of a receiver  330   b  with TX leakage cancellation. Receiver  330   b  includes a first LNA stage  338 , a second LNA stage  340 , downconverter  350 , and TX leakage canceller  360 . First LNA stage  338 , second LNA stage  340 , and downconverter  350  are coupled in series, as shown in  FIG. 3B . First LNA stage  338  allows for a tradeoff between noise figure and linearity. A higher gain for first LNA stage  338  may improve noise figure but may degrade linearity, and the converse may be true for a lower gain. 
     In the exemplary design shown in  FIG. 3B , TX leakage canceller  360  senses the TX leakage signal at the output of transconductance amplifier  352  and cancels the TX leakage signal at one or more points in the receiver path. TX leakage canceller  360  includes downconvert  368 , notch filter  370 , and upconvert  372  that operate as described above for  FIG. 3A . TX leakage canceller  360  generates a feedback signal having the TX leakage signal centered at the transmit frequency. In one exemplary design, the feedback signal is provided via a line  382  and subtracted from the receiver input signal at the input of first LNA stage  338 . In another exemplary design, the feedback signal is provided via a line  384  and subtracted at the input of second LNA stage  340 , as shown in  FIG. 3B . In yet another exemplary design, the feedback signal is provided via a line  386  and subtracted at the input of downconverter  350 . In yet another exemplary design, the feedback signal is provided via a line  388  and subtracted at the output of amplifier  352 . 
     In general, the TX leakage signal may be sensed at any point prior to mixer  354  in the receiver, e.g., at the output of amplifier  352  (as shown in  FIG. 3B ), at the output of second LNA stage  340 , or at the output of first LNA stage  338 . The feedback signal containing the TX leakage signal may be subtracted from any point at or prior to the point at which the TX leakage signal is sensed. If the TX leakage signal is sensed at the output of amplifier  352  (as shown in  FIG. 3B ), then the feedback signal may be subtracted at the input of first LNA stage  338 , the input of second LNA stage  340 , the input of amplifier  352 , or the output of amplifier  352 . If the TX leakage signal is sensed at the output of second LNA stage  340  (not shown in  FIG. 3B ), then the feedback signal may be subtracted at the input of first LNA stage  338 , the input of second LNA stage  340 , or the output of second LNA stage  340 . If the TX leakage signal is sensed at the output of first LNA stage  338  (also not shown in  FIG. 3B ), then the feedback signal may be subtracted at the input or output of first LNA stage  338 . 
     In general, the canceller input signal may be downconverted with the TX LO signal as shown in  FIGS. 3A and 3B , with the RX LO signal, or with an LO signal at some other frequency. Downconversion with the TX LO signal results in the downconverted TX leakage signal being centered at DC, which may simplify the design of notch filter  370 . If the TX leakage signal is downconverted to a frequency other than DC, then notch filter  370  may be design to provide a bandpass response to obtain the desired filtering characteristics described below. 
       FIG. 4  shows a block diagram of a model  400  of a receiver with TX leakage cancellation. Model  400  may be used for receiver  330   a  in  FIG. 3A  or receiver  330   b  in  FIG. 3B . In model  400 , a summer  474  subtracts a feedback signal from a receiver input signal. An amplifier  440  amplifies the output of summer  474  and provides an amplified signal, which is also used as a canceller input signal. Amplifier  440  may include first LNA stage  338 , second LNA stage  340 , and/or amplifier  352  in  FIG. 3B . Amplifier  440  has a frequency response of A(s), where s=jω. In general, frequency may be given in units of Hertz or radians/second, where ω=2π·f, ω is frequency in radians/second, and f is frequency in Hertz. A mixer  454  downconverts the amplified signal with the RX LO signal having a frequency of ω RX =2π·f RX . A downconverter  468  downconverts the canceller input signal with the TX LO signal having a frequency of ω TX =2π·f TX  and provides a downconverted signal. A filter  470  filters the downconverted signal with a frequency response of H(s) and provides a filtered signal. An upconverter  472  upconverts the filtered signal with the TX LO signal and provides the feedback signal. 
     The overall transfer function of model  400  may be expressed as: 
                       G   ⁡     (       ω   TX     +     ω   BB       )       =           S   out     ⁡     (       ω   TX     +     ω   BB       )           S     i   ⁢           ⁢   n       ⁡     (       ω   TX     +     ω   BB       )         =       A   ⁡     (       ω   TX     +     ω   BB       )         1   +       A   ⁡     (       ω   TX     +     ω   BB       )       ·     H   ⁡     (     ω   BB     )                 ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   1   )                 
where S in (ω TX +ω BB ) is the receiver input signal,
         S out (ω TX +ω BB ) is the amplified signal from amplifier  440 ,   A(ω TX +ω BB ) is the frequency response of amplifier  440 ,   H(ω BB ) is the frequency response of filter  470  and mixers  468  and  472 ,   G(ω TX +ω BB ) is the overall transfer function of model  400 , and   ω BB  is a frequency offset from the transmit frequency.
 
The gains and frequency responses of mixers  468  and  472  are typically constant and may thus be absorbed into H(ω BB ).
       

     The overall transfer function at the transmit and receive frequencies may be expressed as: 
                       G   ⁡     (     ω   TX     )       =           S   out     ⁡     (     ω   TX     )           S     i   ⁢           ⁢   n       ⁡     (     ω   TX     )         =       A   ⁡     (     ω   TX     )         1   +       A   ⁡     (     ω   TX     )       ·     H   ⁡     (   0   )                 ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   2   )                     G   ⁡     (     ω   RX     )       =           S   out     ⁡     (     ω   RX     )           S     i   ⁢           ⁢   n       ⁡     (     ω   RX     )         =       A   ⁡     (     ω   RX     )         1   +       A   ⁡     (     ω   RX     )       ·     H   ⁡     (       ω   RX     -     ω   TX       )                 ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   3   )                 
where ω RX −ω TX  is the difference frequency, which is the difference between the receive frequency and the transmit frequency. The TX leakage signal observes the transfer function shown in equation (2). The jammer and the desired signal observe the transfer function shown in equation (3).
 
     The amount of cancellation of the TX leakage signal at the transmit frequency is determined by the denominator of equation (2). The amount of attenuation of the desired signal at the receive frequency is determined by the denominator of equation (3). For example, the desired signal may be attenuated by 1 dB or less by having [1+A(ω RX )·H(ω RX −ω TX )]≦1.12 or equivalently A(ω RX )·H(ω RX −ω TX )≦0.12, where 0.12 is equal to −18 decibels (dB). 
     The TX leakage cancellation may be expressed as: 
                     TX   ⁢           ⁢   leakage   ⁢           ⁢   cancellation     =         G   ⁡     (     ω   RX     )         G   ⁡     (     ω   TX     )         ≈       A   ⁡     (     ω   RX     )       ·       H   ⁡     (       ω   RX     -     ω   TX       )       .                 Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   4   )                 
As shown in equation (4), the amount of TX leakage cancellation is dependent on the gains of both amplifier  440  and filter  470 .
 
     For clarity, a specific exemplary design of filter  470  is described below. In this exemplary design, the target amount of TX leakage cancellation is 26 dB, and the target amount of desired signal attenuation is 1 dB. These two conditions may be expressed as:
 
 A (ω TX )· H (0)≈26 dB, and  Eq (5)
 
 A (ω RX )· H (ω RX −ω TX )≈−18 dB  Eq (6)
 
     Amplifier  440  may be assumed to be flat across the transmit and receive frequencies, so that A(ω TX )≈A(ω RX ). Filter  470  may then be designed to achieve the following: 
     
       
         
           
             
               
                 
                   
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     For the exemplary design described above, equation (7) indicates that the filter response at the difference frequency should be attenuated by 44 dB relative to the passband. In general, the target amount of attenuation for filter  470  is dependent on the target amount of TX leakage cancellation and the target amount of desired signal attenuation. 
     Filter  470  may be implemented with a single first-order filter stage to ensure loop stability, but this filter stage may not provide sufficient attenuation. Filter  470  may be implemented with multiple filter stages to obtain the target attenuation, but these multiple filter stages may introduce too much phase shift and lead to loop instability. 
     In another aspect, a notch filter is used for filter  470  to provide the target amount of attenuation while ensuring loop stability. The notch filter can provide high attenuation at a notch frequency, which may be placed at or near the difference frequency ω RX −ω TX . The notch filter also does not introduce excessive phase shift, which may ensure that the loop can be unconditionally stable. 
     After downconversion of the canceller input signal by downconverter  468 , the jammer and the desired signal appear only at positive frequency if the transmit frequency is lower than the receive frequency, as shown in  FIG. 2C . In one exemplary design, a complex notch filter is used for filter  470  and has a single zero placed at or near the difference frequency. The complex notch filter can provide high attenuation of the jammer and the desired signal at positive frequency while introducing small phase shift, which may improve loop stability. 
       FIG. 5  shows a plot of the frequency response H(s) of a complex notch filter in accordance with one exemplary design.  FIG. 5  shows the frequency response at the transmit frequency f TX  instead of DC. The complex notch filter has an asymmetric response about the transmit frequency f TX , so that the frequency response above f TX  is different from the frequency response below f TX . The complex notch filter has a passband that is equal to or greater than the bandwidth of the TX leakage signal. For example, the passband may be 800 KHz if the TX leakage signal has a bandwidth of 620 KHz. A single pole is placed at the passband edge and provides a roll-off of 20 dB per decade on both sides of the passband. The passband is from f TX −f BW  to f TX +f BW , where f BW  is the single-side bandwidth of the complex notch filter. 
     The complex notch filter also has a zero located at the receive frequency f RX  and can provide the target amount of attenuation of the jammer and the desired signal. The zero can provide an additional roll-off of 40 dB per decade on top of the roll-off provided by the pole at the passband edge. However, unlike an additional pole that can introduce additional phase shift, the zero preserves the phase margin of 90 degrees normally achieved with the single pole. Thus, the zero can provide more attenuation without affecting loop stability. At frequencies below f TX , the complex notch filter has a roll-off provided by the pole at the passband edge. In general, a notch filter may have a single zero or multiple zeros. 
     The frequency response H(ω) of the complex notch filter in  FIG. 5  may be expressed as: 
                       H   ⁡     (   ω   )       =       H   ⁡     (   0   )       ·     [       1     1   +     j   ⁢       ω   -     (       ω   TX     +     ω   p       )         ω   p             -     1     j   ⁢         ω   RX     -     ω   TX         ω   p             ]         ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   8   )                 
where ω p =2π·f BW  is the frequency of the pole at the passband edge of the complex notch filter.
 
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       FIG. 6  shows a block diagram of an exemplary design of a downconverter  368   a , a complex notch filter  370   a , and an upconverter  372   a , which may be used for downconverter  368 , notch filter  370 , and upconverter  372 , respectively, in  FIGS. 3A and 3B  and also for downconverter  468 , notch filter  470 , and upconverter  472 , respectively, in  FIG. 4 . In this exemplary design, downconverter  368   a  receives a voltage canceller input signal V in , and upconverter  372   a  provides a current feedback signal I feedback . 
     Within downconverter  368   a , four transconductance amplifiers  610   a  through  610   d  receive and amplify the canceller input signal V in . Amplifiers  610   a  and  610   d  have gains of g m1 , and amplifiers  610   b  and  610   c  have gains of g m1 /m, where m is a scaling ratio between amplifiers  610   a  and  610   d  and amplifiers  610   b  and  610   c . For example, amplifiers  610   a  and  610   d  may have a size of 1, amplifiers  610   b  and  610   c  may have a size of 1/10, and m would be equal to 10. Four mixers  612   a  through  612   d  receive the outputs of amplifiers  610   a  through  610   d , respectively. Mixers  612   a  and  612   c  downconvert their input signals with an inphase transmit LO signal, cos(ω TX t), and mixers  612   b  and  612   d  downconvert their input signals with a quadrature transmit LO signal, sin(ω TX t). 
     Within notch filter  370   a , the outputs of mixers  612   a  and  612   d  are passed through RC networks  620   a  and  620   d , respectively. The outputs of mixers  612   b  and  612   c  are passed through resistive networks  620   b  and  620   c , respectively. Transconductance amplifiers  622   a  through  622   d  receive and amplify the outputs of networks  620   a  through  620   d , respectively. Amplifiers  622   a  and  622   d  have gains of g m2 , and amplifiers  622   b  and  622   c  have gains of g m3 . A summer  624   a  sums the outputs of amplifiers  622   a  and  622   b  and provides an inphase filtered signal. A summer  624   b  subtracts the output of amplifier  622   c  from the output of amplifier  622   d  and provides a quadrature filtered signal. 
     Within upconverter  372   a , a mixer  640   a  upconverts the inphase filtered signal with cos(ω TX t). A mixer  640   b  upconverts the quadrature filtered signal with sin(ω TX t). A summer  642  sums the outputs of mixers  640   a  and  640   b  and provides the feedback signal I feedback . 
     For the exemplary design shown in  FIG. 6 , the parameters of the complex notch filter may be expressed as: 
                       H   ⁡     (   0   )       =       g     m   ⁢           ⁢   1       ·     R   11     ·     g     m   ⁢           ⁢   2           ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   10   )                     ω   p     =     1       R   11     ·     C   11           ,   and           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   11   )                     ω   notch     =         g     m   ⁢           ⁢   2         g     m   ⁢           ⁢   3         ·     1     m   ·     R   12     ·     C   11             ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   12   )                 
where R 11  is the value of the resistors within RC networks  620   a  and  620   d,  
         C 11  is the value of the capacitors within RC networks  620   a  and  620   d,      R 12  is the value of the capacitors within resistive networks  620   b  and  620   c , and   ω notch  is the notch frequency, which may be set at ω notch ≈ω RX −ω TX .
 
The amplifier gains and the resistor and capacitor values may be selected to obtain the desired transfer functions for the TX leakage signal, the jammer, and the desired signal.
       

       FIG. 7  shows a block diagram of an exemplary design of a downconverter  368   b , a complex notch filter  370   b , and an upconverter  372   b , which may be one implementation of downconverter  368   a , notch filter  370   a , and upconverter  372   a , respectively, in  FIG. 6 . Within downconverter  368   b , four transconductance amplifiers  710   a  through  710   d  receive and amplify the canceller input signal V in  with gains of g m1 . Four mixers  712   a  through  712   d  receive the outputs of amplifiers  710   a  through  710   d , respectively. Mixers  712   a  and  712   c  downconvert their input signals with cos(ω TX t), and mixers  712   b  and  712   d  downconvert their input signals with sin(ω TX t). 
     Within notch filter  370   b , operational amplifiers (op-amps)  720   a  through  720   d  receive the outputs of mixers  712   a  through  712   d , respectively. Resistors  722   a  through  722   d  are coupled between the input and output of op-amps  720   a  through  720   d , respectively. Capacitors  724   a  and  724   d  are coupled between the input and output of op-amps  720   a  and  720   d , respectively. An op-amp  730   a  has its input coupled to the outputs of op-amps  720   a  and  720   b  via resistors  728   a  and  728   b , respectively. A resistor  732   a  is coupled between the input and output of op-amp  730   a . An inverting op-amp  726  is coupled at the output of op-amp  720   c . An op-amp  730   b  has its input coupled to the outputs of op-amps  726  and  720   d  via resistors  728   c  and  728   d , respectively. A resistor  732   b  is coupled between the input and output of op-amp  730   b.    
     Within upconverter  372   b , a mixer  740   a  upconverts the inphase filtered signal from op-amp  730   a  with cos(ω TX t). A mixer  740   b  upconverts the quadrature filtered signal from op-amp  730   b  with sin(ω TX t). A summer  742  sums the outputs of mixers  740   a  and  740   b  and provides the feedback signal I feedback . The amplifier gains and the resistor and capacitor values may be selected to obtain the desired transfer functions for the TX leakage signal, the jammer, and the desired signal. 
     For the exemplary design shown in  FIG. 7 , the parameters of the complex notch filter may be expressed as: 
                       H   ⁡     (   0   )       =       g     m   ⁢           ⁢   1       ·     R   21     ·       R   25       R   23           ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   13   )                     ω   p     =     1       R   21     ·     C   21           ,   and           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   14   )                     ω   notch     =         R   24       R   22       ·     1       R   23     ·     C   21             ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   15   )                 
where R 21  is the value of resistors  722   a  and  722   d,  
         C 21  is the value of capacitors  724   a  and  724   d,      R 22  is the value of resistors  722   b  and  722   c,      R 23  is the value of resistors  728   a  and  728   d,      R 24  is the value of resistors  728   b  and  728   c , and   R 25  is the value of resistors  732   a  and  732   b.          

     H(0) in equation (13) has different dimension than H(0) equation (10). A g m2  stage may be inserted after each of op-amps  730   a  and  730   b  in  FIG. 7 . Equation (13) would then become 
               H   ⁡     (   0   )       =       g     m   ⁢           ⁢   1       ·     R   21     ·       R   25       R   23       ·     g     m   ⁢           ⁢   2               
and would have the same dimension as H(0) equation (10).
 
       FIG. 8  shows a block diagram of another exemplary design of a downconverter  368   c , a complex notch filter  370   c , and an upconverter  372   c , which may be used for downconverter  368 , notch filter  370 , and upconverter  372 , respectively, in  FIGS. 3A and 3B  and also for downconverter  468 , notch filter  470 , and upconverter  472 , respectively, in  FIG. 4 . The exemplary design shown in  FIG. 8  provides a low-distortion low-noise complex notch filter. 
     Within downconverter  368   c , two transconductance amplifiers  810   a  and  810   b  receive and amplify the canceller input signal V in  with gains of g m1 . A mixer  812   a  downconverts the output signal from amplifier  810   a  with cos(ω TX t). A mixer  812   b  downconverts the output signal from amplifier  810   b  with sin(ω TX t). 
     Within notch filter  370   c , two filter sections  818   a  and  818   b  perform filtering for the inphase and quadrature paths, respectively. Op-amps  820   a  and  820   b  receive the outputs of mixers  812   a  and  812   b , respectively. Resistors  822   a  and  822   b  are coupled between the input and output of op-amps  820   a  and  820   b , respectively. An inverting op-amp  824  is coupled at the output of op-amp  820   a . Op-amps  830   a  and  830   b  have their inputs coupled to the outputs of op-amps  820   a  and  820   b  via resistors  826   a  and  826   b , respectively. Op-amps  830   a  and  830   b  also have their inputs coupled to the outputs of op-amps  820   b  and  824  via capacitors  828   a  and  828   b , respectively. A resistor  832   a  and a capacitor  834   a  are coupled between the input and output of op-amp  830   a . A resistor  832   b  and a capacitor  834   b  are coupled between the input and output of op-amp  830   b.    
     Within upconverter  372   c , a mixer  840   a  upconverts the inphase filtered signal from op-amp  830   a  with cos(ω TX t). A mixer  840   b  upconverts the quadrature filtered signal from op-amp  830   b  with sin(ω TX t). A summer  842  sums the outputs of mixers  840   a  and  840   b  and provides the feedback signal I feedback . The amplifier gains and the resistor and capacitor values may be selected to obtain the desired transfer functions for the TX leakage signal, the jammer, and the desired signal. 
     For the exemplary design shown in  FIG. 8 , the parameters of the complex notch filter may be expressed as: 
                       H   ⁡     (   0   )       =       g     m   ⁢           ⁢   1       ·     R   31     ·       R   33       R   32           ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   16   )                     ω   p     =     1       R   33     ·     C   33           ,   and           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   17   )                     ω   notch     =     1       R   32     ·     C   32           ,           Eq   ⁢           ⁢     (   18   )                 
where R 31  is the value of resistors  822   a  and  822   b,  
         R 32  is the value of resistors  826   a  and  826   b,      C 32  is the value of capacitors  828   a  and  828   b,      R 33  is the value of resistors  832   a  and  832   b , and   C 33  is the value of capacitors  834   a  and  834   b.          

     H(0) in equation (16) has different dimension than H(0) equation (10). A g m2  stage may be inserted after each of op-amps  830   a  and  830   b  in  FIG. 8 . Equation (16) would then become 
               H   ⁡     (   0   )       =       g     m   ⁢           ⁢   1       ·     R   31     ·       R   33       R   32       ·     g     m   ⁢           ⁢   2               
and would have the same dimension as H(0) equation (10).
 
     Several exemplary designs of a complex notch filter have been described above.  FIG. 6  shows an exemplary gm-C circuit for the complex notch filter.  FIG. 7  shows an exemplary active-RC circuit for the complex notch filter using four downconverters  712   a  through  712   d .  FIG. 8  shows an exemplary active-RC circuit for the complex notch filter using only two downconverters  812   a  and  812   b . The complex notch filter may also be implemented with other exemplary designs. 
     The low-distortion low-noise complex notch filter design shown in  FIG. 8  has several advantages. The low-distortion and low-noise characteristics result in less distortion and noise being generated in the feedback path and injected in the forward path, which may improve performance. 
     In the exemplary complex notch filter design shown in  FIG. 5 , the transmit frequency is lower than the receive frequency. The jammer and the desired signal are thus at positive frequency after downconversion by downconverter  368  in  FIGS. 3A and 3B . In this case, a single notch may be placed at a positive frequency (or above the transmit frequency), as shown in  FIG. 5 , to attenuate the jammer and the desired signal. If the transmit frequency is higher than the receive frequency, then the jammer and the desired signal would be at negative frequency after downconversion. In this case, a single notch may be placed at a negative frequency to attenuate the jammer and the desired signal. 
     The exemplary designs described above utilize a complex notch filter to provide large attenuation of the jammer and the desired signal without introducing excessive phase shift in the feedback loop. A regular notch filter with notches at both positive and negative frequencies may also be used for the TX leakage canceller. In one exemplary design, the regular notch filter is implemented with two complex notch filters coupled in cascade. One complex notch filter may have a notch at positive frequency, and the other complex notch filter may have a notch at negative frequency. 
     In yet another exemplary design, multiple complex notch filters with notches at the same frequency polarity (e.g., positive frequency) may be used to provide even more attenuation of the jammer and the desired signal. The notch frequencies for these complex notch filters may overlap (e.g., at the difference frequency) or may be spaced apart near the difference frequency. For example, one notch frequency may be at the difference frequency, and another notch frequency may be at the jammer frequency. 
       FIG. 9  shows an exemplary design of a process  900  for performing TX leakage cancellation. A receiver input signal may be amplified with an LNA to obtain a first amplified signal (block  912 ). The first amplified signal may be further amplified with a transconductance amplifier (block  914 ). A canceller input signal may be obtained based on the first or second amplified signal (block  916 ). 
     The canceller input signal may be downconverted (e.g., with a first LO signal at a transmit frequency) to obtain a downconverted signal (block  918 ). The downconverted signal may be filtered with a notch filter to obtain a filtered signal (block  920 ). The filtered signal may be upconverted (e.g., with a second LO signal at the transmit frequency) to obtain a feedback signal used to cancel an undesired signal in the canceller input signal (block  922 ). The feedback signal may be subtracted at the input of the LNA, the output of the LNA, or the output of the transconductance amplifier (block  924 ). 
     In one exemplary design, the canceller input signal may be downconverted by first and second mixers with I and Q LO signals, respectively, at the transmit frequency to obtain I and Q downconverted signals, respectively. The I and Q downconverted signals may be filtered with first and second filter sections, respectively, to obtain I and Q filtered signals, respectively. First and second intermediate signals from the first and second filter sections, respectively, may be capacitively coupled (e.g., with capacitors  828   a  and  828   b  in  FIG. 8 ) to the second and first sections, respectively. The I and Q filtered signals may be upconverted by third and fourth mixers with I and Q LO signals, respectively, at the transmit frequency to obtain I and Q upconverted signals, which may be summed to obtain the feedback signal. 
     The undesired signal may be a TX leakage signal from a transmitter. The notch filter may pass the TX leakage signal and attenuate a jammer and a desired signal in the canceller input signal. The notch filter may have a passband that is equal to or larger than the bandwidth of the undesired signal and may provide a predetermined amount of attenuation of the jammer and the desired signal. The notch filter may be implemented with a gm-C circuit, e.g., as shown in  FIG. 6 , with an active-RC circuit, e.g., as shown in  FIG. 7  or  8 , or with some other circuit. The notch filter may be a complex notch filter having a notch only at positive or negative frequency. The notch may be located at the jammer frequency, the difference frequency between the receive frequency and the transmit frequency, or some other frequency. 
     The TX leakage canceller described herein may be used for various frequency bands. For example, the TX leakage canceller may be used for any of the frequency bands listed in Table 1. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
               
               
             
               
                 TABLE 1 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 Frequency 
                   
                 Receive 
                 TX-RX 
               
               
                 Band 
                 Transmit (Uplink) 
                 (Downlink) 
                 Spacing 
               
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 Cellular 
                  824-849 MHz 
                  869-894 MHz 
                 45 MHz 
               
               
                 DCS 
                 1710-1785 MHz 
                 1805-1880 MHz 
                 95 MHz 
               
               
                 PCS 
                 1850-1910 MHz 
                 1930-1990 MHz 
                 80 MHz 
               
               
                 IMT-2000 
                 1920-1980 MHz 
                 2110-2170 MHz 
                 190 MHz  
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The cellular, Personal Communication System (PCS), Digital Cellular System (DCS), and International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) bands are commonly used in the United States. Other frequency bands also used for wireless communication. As shown in Table 1, the difference frequency, which is the spacing between the transmit frequency and the receive frequency, may be different for different frequency bands. The notch frequency may be set based on the difference frequency for the frequency band for which the TX leakage canceller is used. 
     The TX leakage canceller described herein may be implemented on an IC, an analog IC, an RFIC, a mixed-signal IC, an application specific integrated circuit (ASIC), a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronics device, etc. The TX leakage canceller may also be fabricated with various IC process technologies such as complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS), N-channel MOS (NMOS), P-channel MOS (PMOS), bipolar junction transistor (BJT), bipolar-CMOS (BiCMOS), silicon germanium (SiGe), gallium arsenide (GaAs), etc. 
     An apparatus implementing the TX leakage canceller described herein may be a stand-alone device or may be part of a larger device. A device may be (i) a stand-alone IC, (ii) a set of one or more ICs that may include memory ICs for storing data and/or instructions, (iii) an RFIC such as an RF receiver (RFR) or an RF transmitter/receiver (RTR), (iv) an ASIC such as a mobile station modem (MSM), (v) a module that may be embedded within other devices, (vi) a receiver, cellular phone, wireless device, handset, or mobile unit, (vii) etc. 
     In one or more exemplary designs, the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium. Computer-readable media includes both computer storage media and communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another. A storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a computer. By way of example, and not limitation, such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer. Also, any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium. For example, if the software is transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave, then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, DSL, or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave are included in the definition of medium. Disk and disc, as used herein, includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media. 
     The previous description of the disclosure is provided to enable any person skilled in the art to make or use the disclosure. Various modifications to the disclosure will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art, and the generic principles defined herein may be applied to other variations without departing from the scope of the disclosure. Thus, the disclosure is not intended to be limited to the examples and designs described herein but is to be accorded the widest scope consistent with the principles and novel features disclosed herein.