Patent Publication Number: US-7593459-B1

Title: Wireless link simulator

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
   The present invention is related to the testing of wireless systems. More particularly, the invention is related to wireless systems which include a transmitter part performing encoding of digital data followed by modulation and transmission onto a wireless channel, and a receiver part which receives signals from a wireless channel and performs detection, demodulation, and decoding of digital data. 
   BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
   There are several prior art techniques for measuring the performance of a receiver signal processing system for a wireless link. 
     FIG. 1  shows a prior art signal processing system for a wireless transmitter  11  and receiver  21 . The transmitter  11  includes a digital transmit device under test (TX-DUT)  10  which performs the encoding and modulation of data to be transmitted, inclusive of all digital functions of the wireless transmitter up to the generation of quadrature digital data for transmission  13 , as is ordinarily performed in wireless signal processing of the prior art, such as the wireless LAN protocols of IEEE 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, or any of the prior art wireless transmission systems. The TX-DUT  10  delivers quadrature baseband data  13  to a digital to analog converter (DAC)  12 , which accepts a quadrature digital data stream suitable for modulation to a carrier frequency. The transmit RF function  14  sums the baseband analog signals from the DAC  12 , modulates them to a carrier frequency such as 2.4 Ghz or 5 Ghz, amplifies the modulated signal, and couples the amplified signal to an antenna  16 . A communications channel  26  carries the transmitted signals to a receiver antenna  18 , which disposes the received signal to an RF baseband converter  20 , which may typically include a quadrature mixer for baseband demodulation and delivery of the I and Q channels to a pair of analog to digital converters  22  which output quadrature or single ended digital data  28 , which is then applied to a digital receiver signal processor RX-DUT  24 . RX-DUT  24  performs the digital operations of demodulating and decoding the data stream into received data. The functional block separations shown are according to type of processing performed, and include digital processors  10  and  24 , D/A and A/D converters  12  &amp;  22 , and analog RF functions  14  &amp;  20 . There are many different systems of encoding/decoding, modulation/demodulation, and these systems form the basis for the various standards of the IEEE LAN group, and many other standards-based and non-standards based communications systems. 
   When a particular TX-DUT or RX-DUT is to be tested, the communications channel  26  becomes an integral part of the system test result. For example, an RX-DUT  24  for 802.11b may include a sophisticated rake receiver which is effective in reducing the effects of multi-path reflections in communications channel  26 , but this performance improvement may not be observed if the noise performance of the RF baseband converter  20  is poor, the incoming signal is weak, or if the communications channel  26  includes time-dependant phase shifts which are not tracked by the phase rotation correction function of the RX-DUT  24 . The performance of the RX-DUT  24  is thereby limited by the performance of the systems surrounding it, and the interactions of these may become very difficult to separate and isolate when analyzing the performance of RX-DUT  24  or TX-DUT  10 . Additionally, tests of the RX-DUT  24  and TX-DUT  10  in the field may produce different results due to the particular effects present at the time a particular test was performed. It is desired to conduct performance evaluations of the TX-DUT  10  and RX-DUT  24  in such a way as to include the effects of the DAC  12 , transmit RF functions  14 , communications channel  26 , RF baseband converter  20 , and ADCs  22  in a reliable, repeatable manner. It is further desired to be able to simulate the effect of a single change in performance of DAC  12 , transmit RF functions  14 , communications channel  26 , receive RF functions  20  and ADC  22  on the TX-DUT and RX-DUT. 
   U.S. Pat. No. 6,308,064 by Green describes a testing system for interconnecting wireless systems to a plurality of antennas placed with a variety of separations and reflective structures, where each of the antennas are individually selectable as part of the testing methodology. In this manner, the communications channel may be modeled through the placement of antennas. 
   U.S. Pat. No. 6,542,538 by Fischel et al describes a method for testing a wireless link by transmitting a pseudo-random number sequence across the link, whereby the receiver synchronizes to the pseudo-random link to test for received errors. 
   U.S. Pat. No. 6,571,082 by Rahman et al describes a test simulator for modeling the effects of multi-path, attenuation, and doppler shift on a signal, where the test simulator is placed in the wireless RF receive path of a receive signal processor used in a wireless link. 
   U.S. Pat. No. 6,724,730 by Mlinarsky et al describes a test system whereby the transmitter and receiver are coupled with an RF link, and the simulator is placed in the wireless link between the transmitter signal processing and receive signal processing, where the simulator includes variable attenuation, and a multi-path and doppler simulator. 
   U.S. patent application Ser. No. 2003/0236089 describes a test system for cellular wireless systems, whereby the received signal is converted to baseband prior to sequential processing by modules which provide channel simulation for use to a plurality of devices under test. 
   OBJECTS OF THE INVENTION 
   A first object of the invention is a system for simulating a wireless link. 
   A second object of the invention is a system for simulating a wireless link which includes the effects of a transmit DAC and RF functions. 
   A third object of the invention is a system for simulating a wireless link which includes the effects of a receive RF amplifier and a receive ADC. 
   A fourth object of the invention is a system for simulating a wireless link which accepts single-ended or quadrature baseband digital data from a TX-DUT and generates simulated single-ended or quadrature baseband digital data for delivery to an RX-DUT. 
   A fifth object of the invention is a system for simulating a communications system which includes a wireless link sending and receiving baseband data which has been up-converted to a modulation frequency by providing a succession of baseband signal processing steps which simulate the effects of the wireless link between a transmitter under test and a receiver under test. 
   SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
   The digital functions of a wireless receiver/transmitter link includes two parts: a digital transmitter device under test (TX-DUT)  10  part which modulates transmit data into a stream of quadrature TX-DUT data  13 , and a digital receiver device under test (RX-DUT)  24  part which accepts and demodulates a stream of RX-DUT data  28 . A wireless link simulator  44  includes an input interface  82  for receiving data from the TX-DUT and an output interface  284  for sending data to an RX-DUT. The input interface  82  accepts an analytic signal comprising a digital signal having an in-phase component (I), and a quadrature (Q) component from a TX-DUT  10 , such signal as would ordinarily be delivered by a TX-DUT to the digital to analog converter (DAC) subsystem of a wireless transmitter. The output interface of the wireless link simulator  44  generates an analytic signal  284  comprising a digital signal having an in-phase component (I), and a quadrature (Q) component, as would ordinarily be generated by the analog to digital converter (ADC)  22  subsystem of the wireless receiver of  FIG. 1 , and this signal is delivered to an RX-DUT  24 .  FIG. 2  shows that the link simulator  44  of the present invention extracts the analytic signal  82  prior to a transmitter DAC, simulates the electrical behavior of the communications link as well as the DAC  12  and RF transmit functions  14  of the transmitter and the RF baseband converter  20  and ADC  22  functions of a receiver  21 , and generates an analytic digital signal which is delivered to the digital receiver signal processor  24  of the device under test. The wireless link simulator  44  includes a TX IQ Imbalance Generator  50 , a Power Amplifier (PA) Non-linearity Generator  52 , a TX Noise Floor Generator  54 , a Multi-path Channel Generator  56 , an Rx Thermal Noise Generator  58 , a Frequency Offset Generator  60 , a Phase Noise Generator  62 , an RX IQ Imbalance Generator  64 , and a DC Offset Generator  66 . Each of the generator elements of the wireless link simulator  44  includes provision for changing the behavior for each element. 

   
     BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       FIG. 1  shows the block diagram for a prior art wireless link. 
       FIG. 2  shows the block diagram for a wireless link simulator. 
       FIG. 3  shows the block diagram for a TX IQ Imbalance generator. 
       FIG. 4  shows the block diagram for a PA non-linearity generator. 
       FIG. 5  shows the block diagram for an AWGN source. 
       FIG. 6  shows the block diagram for a TX noise floor generator. 
       FIG. 7   a  shows the block diagram for a multi-path generator. 
       FIGS. 7   b  &amp;  7   c  show the frequency transfer functions for two different channel simulations according to the multi-path generator of  FIG. 7   a.    
       FIG. 8  shows the block diagram for an RX thermal noise generator. 
       FIG. 9  shows the block diagram for an RX frequency offset generator. 
       FIG. 10  shows the block diagram for an RX phase noise generator. 
       FIG. 11  shows the block diagram for a RX IQ Imbalance generator. 
       FIG. 12  shows the block diagram for an RX DC offset generator. 
   

   DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION 
     FIG. 1  shows the prior art wireless communications system, including transmitter  11 , which includes a digital transmit device under test TX-DUT  10  generating quadrature digital transmit data on TX-DUT transmit interface  13 , a DAC  12  for converting this to an analog signal for up-conversion and amplification by RF functions  14 , and coupling to an antenna  16 . Wireless receiver  21  includes an antenna  18  for receiving signals received from a communications channel  26  and coupling them to an RF amplifier and down-converter  20 , whose quadrature output  28  is sampled by ADC  22  for delivery of a stream of digital data to a digital receiver device under test RX-DUT  24 . 
     FIG. 2  shows the wireless link simulator  44 , which accepts quadrature TX-DUT digital data  82  from the TX-DUT  10 , and processes them with a TX processor  46 , which simulates the behavior of the DAC  12  and transmit RF subsystem  14  of  FIG. 1  and produces a simulated transmit signal  166  which has similar characteristics at baseband as the modulated signal at a carrier frequency such as 2.4 Ghz or 5 Ghz delivered through the communications channel  26  of  FIG. 1 . The simulated transmit signal  166  is then provided to a multi-path channel generator  56  which simulates the multi-path reflection and attenuative behavior of the communications channel  26  of  FIG. 1 , and finally to a receive processor  48  which simulates the behavior of the RF subsystem  20  and ADC subsystem  22  of the receiver  21  of  FIG. 1 . In this manner, the transmitter characteristics ( 12  &amp;  14 ), the communications channel characteristics  26 , and the receiver characteristics ( 20  &amp;  22 ) may all be modeled while performing the modeling operations using digital circuitry which operates on a baseband signal, rather than modulating and demodulating the signal to/from a rate of 2.5 Ghz or 5 Ghz, thereby greatly reducing the computational complexity required, and affording the use of standard digital processing techniques.  FIGS. 3 through 6  show the generation of transmit non-idealities for the transmit processor  46  of  FIG. 2 .  FIG. 7   a  shows the channel simulator which models communications channel  26  of  FIG. 1 , and  FIGS. 8 through 12  show the elements of receiver non-idealities of receive processor  48  of  FIG. 2 . 
     FIG. 3  shows a transmit IQ imbalance generator  50 , which modifies the gain and phase of the I and Q channels of the signal transmitted through the link simulator. The I and Q channels of the signal stream  82  are ideally generated with a 90 degree phase separation, and the two channel gains are ideally gain matched to each other. The transmit IQ imbalance generator  50  creates gain and phase imbalances which simulate the effects of degraded channels. The I signal from quadrature input signal stream  82  is applied to I channel multipliers  86  and  88 , multiplied by imbalance generator coefficients Tx_Positive_Cosine  98  (Tx_P_C) and Tx_Positive_Sine  100  (Tx_P_S), and the multiplier  86  and  88  outputs are summed  90  to generates the I output of  84 . Similarly, The Q quadrature input signal  82  is applied to Q channel multipliers  92  and  94 , is multiplied by imbalance generator coefficients Tx_Negative_Cosine  102  (Tx_N_C) and Tx_Negative_Sine  104  (Tx_N_S), and the multiplier  92  and  94  outputs are summed  96  to generates Q output  84 . The values of coefficients TX_P_C  98 , TX_P_S  100 , TX_N_C  102 , and TX_N_S  104  can be computed from the values of Phase_imbalance and Gain_imbalance as follows: 
   
     
       
         
           
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     FIG. 4  shows a Power Amplifier Non-linearity processor  52 , which simulates the non-linear behavior of the transmit power amplifier part of transmit RF function  14  of  FIG. 1 . Often in power amplifiers, the incremental gain is reduced at high power levels compared to lower power levels, an effect known as compression, which results in the generation of undesired harmonic products. The compression effect tends to reduce the spectral energy in the desired modulation region, and also generates spurious mixing products, which both degrade the linearity of the processing, as well as reduce the operating efficiency of the amplifier. There are many ways of realizing the power amplifier nonlinearity generator  52  of  FIG. 4 , and the method shown in  FIG. 4  involves separating the phase and magnitude of the signal into magnitude and phase components, shown as absolute value generator  112  and CORDIC function  114 , respectively. The magnitude component of the input signal is multiplied  120  by a magnitude-dependant factor derived from a lookup table (LUT)  116 , thereby generating the amplitude compression effect. The phase of the input signal is added  122  with a phase component related to the magnitude derived from phase lookup table (LUT)  118 . The phase output of adder  122  is sent through a lookup table (LUT)  124  which generates a sine part and a cosine part, and these are respectively multiplied by the correction term magnitude output of  120  by multipliers  126  and  128 , thereby generating an I and Q component which represent the non-linearity of the transmit power amplifier  14  of  FIG. 1 , or any other nonlinear effect that may be desired. The coefficients for the non-linearity are loaded into lookup tables  116 ,  118 , and  124 . 
     FIG. 5  shows an average white gaussian noise (AWGN) source  140 , which may be realized in any manner that generates a quadrature noise source  161 . The Pseudo Noise (PN) source  140  comprises a linear feedback shift register comprising LFSR adder  146  which sums the individual outputs of registers D 0  through D 10 , which receive an input term at D 0  from adder  142 . The outputs of the LFSR adder  146  are fed to address inputs of a RAM  150  via inverter  148  to RAM  152 . The contents of RAM  150  and  152  are a series of values whose amplitude distribution match a gaussian profile and whose PN sequence is long compared to the system impulse response time. The uncorrelated outputs of RAM  150  and  152  are multiplied by a gain factor also known as standard deviation  156  using multipliers  158  and  160  to generate AWGN OUT signal  161 . By loading the RAM  150  and  152  with data values having a gaussian distribution by amplitude, the pseudo-random addresses provided by LFSR adder  146  will generate outputs of AWGN source  140  with a gaussian amplitude distribution. Gain module  154  varies the noise level through the standard deviation value in  156 , thereby providing a noise source with an adjustable source of gain. The coefficient noise_sd may be determined from signal_power and SNR from the below equation: 
   
     
       
         
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     FIG. 6  shows the TX noise generator  54  of  FIG. 1  implemented by summing the uncorrected outputs of AWGN source  164  of  FIG. 5  with quadrature inputs  130  using adders  168  and  170  to produce the transmit noise generator output  166 . 
     FIG. 7   a  shows the multi-path channel generator  56  of  FIG. 1 , which simulates the reflective and attenuative nature of the communications link, and may include any model which includes the effects of reflection, refraction, and scattering. The communications link  26  of  FIG. 1  may include obstacles between transmitter antenna  16  and receiver antenna  18  which may result in reflection, refraction and scattering by obstacles along the path. The scattered signal will take different paths before reaching the receiver, which results in delay, phase and amplitude changes in the signal received at antenna  18 . There may be hundreds of delayed signal replicas received, but not all of the received signals will have significant contributions in the detection of the signal. In simulation, the number of paths and signals received is limited. Two types of channels are presented herein: the JTC model and the Naftali model. 
   JTC models are standardized models with fixed coefficients, and Naftali models are programmable models derived by algorithms. The Naftali generalized multi-path channel model was adopted for IEEE 802.11, IEEE 802.11a, and IEEE 802.11b since a consistent channel model is required for comparison of different WLAN systems. The channel impulse response and frequency response for an indoor Naftali model is shown in  FIGS. 7   b  and  7   c . The channel impulse response is composed of complex samples with random uniformly distributed phase and Rayleigh distributed magnitude. The following equations generates channel impulse response: 
             h   k     =       (     N   ⁡     (     0   ,       1   2     ⁢   σ   ⁢           ⁢     k   2         )       )     +     i   *     (     N   ⁡     (     0   ,       1   2     ⁢   σ   ⁢           ⁢     k   2         )       )                       σ   k   2     =       σ   0   2     *     exp   ⁡     (       -   k     *     Ts   /     T   RMS         )                       σ   0   2     =     1   -     exp   ⁡     (       -   Ts     /     T   RMS       )               σ k   2   =σ   0   2 *exp(− k*Ts/T   RMS ) σ 0   2 =1−exp(− Ts/T   RMS ) 
Where:
 
   N(0, x) is a is a zero mean Gaussian random variable with variance x; 
   Ts=Sampling interval and Trms is Root mean square value of Delay spread. 
   As an example, assuming Ts is 1/20 MHz=50 ns and Trms=16*Ts/2(pi)=128 ns. The impulse response for this example is shown in  FIGS. 7   b  &amp;  7   c.    
   The JTC (Joint Technical Committee) model uses fixed FIR filter coefficients, which are described in detail in the Joint Technical Committee (JTC) “Technical Report on RF Channel Characterization and Deployment Modeling, Air Interface Standards”, as published by the JTC in September 1994, and also described in the book “Wireless Information Networks”, Wiley-Interscience; ISBN: 0471106070, New York, 1995. In one example of the fixed coefficient model from the JTC reference, the below table shows the FIR filter coefficients for one of the indoor residential models with an RMS delay spread of 150 ns: 
   
     
       
         
             
          
             
                 
             
             
               INDOOR RESIDENTIAL C RMS Delay Spread = 150 ns 
             
          
         
         
             
             
             
             
             
             
          
             
                 
                 
                 
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   The multi-path generator of  FIG. 7   a  is a Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter which recieves quadrature data from input  56 , and the real and imaginary input data  56  is delayed through a series of elements shown as path 0  RAM  306 - 1  through path 10  RAM  306 - 11 , and the path-delayed real and imaginary data is multiplied by delay dependant coefficients coef_i_ 0  and coef_q_ 0  for the respective real and imaginary components, and this is done for all all 11 delay taps with the final delay tap being path 10  RAM  306 - 11  which is multiplied by coef_i_ 10  and coef_q_ 10 , and all of the multiplied data results are summed in adder  310  to generate an output  172 . In the multi-path generator of  FIG. 7   a , instead of using registers as storage elements as is known in the prior art, the FIR filter is realized using path 0  RAM  306 - 1  through path 10  RAM  306 - 11 , where each path RAM acts as a variable length FIFO to provide a single tap with a variable length delay, and each variable length delay is cascaded in the form of path 0  RAM  306 - 1  through path 10  RAM  306 - 11 . The delay from input to output of any particular RAM may be varied to include a short or long delay corresponding to a short or wide separation between reflecting elements in the multi-path scenario to be simulated, and these delays may optionally vary over time. In particular, it may be useful to provide a short interval delay in the first few path RAMs  306 - 1  and  306 - 2 , and provide significantally longer delays in the last RAMs  306 - 10  and  306 - 11 . In this manner of using RAMs  306 - 1  through  306 - 11  as delay elements, a long delay FIR with irregular delay spacings may be realized while using a small number of multipliers  308 m- 1  through  308 m- 11  and adder  310 . Additionally, it may be useful to include a time-dependant channel behavior which includes the temporal effects of fading, and changing multi-path delays which vary over time. This may be accomplished by supplying time-varying values for coefficients  308 i- 1  and  308 q- 1  through  308 i- 11  and  308 q- 11 .  FIG. 7   a  only shows one possible configuration for realizing a non-periodic delay FIR filter, and may be generalized to use any type of storage shown as path 0  RAM  306 - 1  or multiplier  308 m- 1  and adder  310 , and may further be generalized to any number of stages. 
     FIG. 8  shows the RX thermal noise generator  58  of  FIG. 2 , and comprises a separate AWGN source  190  such as was described in  FIG. 5 , which adds simulated receiver noise using adders  194  and  196  which sum Rx thermal noise processor input  172  with AWGN source  190  to generate output  202 . The noise power which is to be added is varied by the parameter noise_sd  156  of  FIG. 5 , as before, and may be derived from signal_power and SNR as: 
   
     
       
         
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     FIG. 9  shows a frequency offset generator  200 , which simulates the difference in frequency between a remote transmitter having an independent clock from the local receiver. The sum of a previous accumulated phase stored in register  210  and the value of the frequency offset register  206  is provided to a sine and cosine lookup table  212 , which delivers these values to complex multiplier  214 , which multiplies these values with the incoming offset generator input  202  to generate offset generator output  216 . The coefficients may be determined as follows: 
   Where the transmitted signal is at frequency F c , and the receiver oscillator&#39;s frequency is at (F c +δF), the RF mixer output will be
 
 A ( t )[exp( i 4 πF   c   t+i 2πδ Ft )+exp( i 2 πδFt )]
 
   The low pass signal component is A(t)*exp(i2πδFt), which is the effect of frequency offset on the detected receiver signal. 
   The Values in RAM are calculated as shown below
 
Frequency offset (ppm)=(Frequency offset (Hz)*10^6)/Center Frequency (Hz)
 
             freq_offset   ⁢   _ppm     =         ppm   ×   carrier   ⁢           ⁢   frequency         10   6     ×   samplerate       ⨯     2   14             
For example, if ppm=200, carrier frequency=2.4e9 and sample rate=40 MHz for IEEE 802.11a, then
 freq_offset_ppm=10′ d 196; 
     FIG. 10  shows a phase noise generator  62 , which comprises an AWGN source  222  having an output stream multiplied by a value stored in a phase noise register  236 , thereby generating an amplitude adjusted input to an FIR filter for shaping the frequency content of the noise source. The output of FIR  230  is provided to sine and cosine lookup tables stored in RAM  232 , whose output is multiplied with the phase noise generator input  216  to generate a phase noise generator output  226 . The origins of phase noise in a communications system are due to the finite bandwidth of the receiver local oscillator, where ideally the receiver local oscillator has a bandwidth of 0. 
   An amplitude and phase modulated sinusoidal signal can be written as
 
 V ( t )= V   0  [1+ V   am ( t )]{sin[2λ F   c   t+θ ( t )]}
 
where:
 
   V 0 =Amplitude of the signal 
   F c =carrier frequency 
   V am =The amplitude modulated component 
   θ(t)=Phase modulated component 
   To determine the effect of phase noise, we disregard the amplitude modulation component; as:
 
 V ( t )= V   0 {sin[2π F   c   t+θ ( t )]}
 
θ( t )=δ f/f   m *sin(2 πF   m   t )=&gt;β=δ f/f   m 
 
Which results in
 
 V ( t )= V   0 [sin(2π F   c   t )+β sin(2π F   m   t )]
 
where the second term is the phase noise term and is measured in dBc/Hz. The value of frequency offset reg (pn_equivalent_num) can be computed from:
 
pn_equivalent_num=√{square root over (10 phase     —     noise(dBc/Hz)×0.1 &gt;2×π×phase_freq_offset( Hz ))}{square root over (10 phase     —     noise(dBc/Hz)×0.1 &gt;2×π×phase_freq_offset( Hz ))}×2 13 
 
     FIG. 11  shows the receiver IQ imbalance processor  64 , which models imbalances between the I channel and Q channel, as were performed by  FIG. 3  for the transmit IQ imbalance processor. The I and Q channels of the signal stream are ideally generated with a 90 degrees phase separation, and the I and Q channel gains are ideally gain matched to each other. The receive IQ imbalance generator  64  creates gain and phase imbalances which simulate the effects of gain and phase variances in the analog signal processing. The I signal from quadrature input signal  226  is applied to I channel multipliers  256  and  260 , multiplied by imbalance generator coefficients Rx_Positive_Cosine  262  (Rx_P_C) and Rx_Positive_Sine  264  (Rx_P_S), and the multiplier  270  and  272  outputs are summed  274  to generate the I output of  254 . Similarly, The Q quadrature input signal  64  is applied to Q channel multipliers  270  and  272 , is multiplied by imbalance generator coefficients Rx_Negative_Cosine  266  (Rx_N_C) and Rx_Negative_Sine  268  (Rx_N_S), and the multiplier  270  and  272  outputs are summed  274  to generates Q output of  254 . The values of coefficients RX_P_C  262 , RX_P_S  264 , RX_N_C  266 , and RX_N_S  268  can be computed from values of Phase_imbalance and Gain_imbalance as follows: 
   
     
       
         
           
             rx_pos 
             ⁢ 
             _cos 
             ⁢ 
             _pos 
             ⁢ 
             _gain 
           
           = 
           
             
               Cos 
               ⁡ 
               
                 ( 
                 
                   
                     Phase_imbalance 
                     ⁢ 
                     
                       ( 
                       deg 
                       ) 
                     
                     × 
                     π 
                   
                   360 
                 
                 ) 
               
             
             × 
             
               10 
               
                 0.025 
                 × 
                 Gain_imbalace 
                 ⁢ 
                 
                   ( 
                   dB 
                   ) 
                 
               
             
             × 
             
               2 
               ⋀ 
             
             ⁢ 
             6 
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
             rx_pos 
             ⁢ 
             _sin 
             ⁢ 
             _neg 
             ⁢ 
             _gain 
           
           = 
           
             
               Sin 
               ⁡ 
               
                 ( 
                 
                   
                     Phase_imbalance 
                     ⁢ 
                     
                       ( 
                       deg 
                       ) 
                     
                     × 
                     π 
                   
                   360 
                 
                 ) 
               
             
             × 
             
               10 
               
                 
                   - 
                   0.025 
                 
                 × 
                 Gain_imbalace 
                 ⁢ 
                 
                   ( 
                   dB 
                   ) 
                 
               
             
             × 
             
               2 
               ⋀ 
             
             ⁢ 
             6 
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
             rx_neg 
             ⁢ 
             _sin 
             ⁢ 
             _pos 
             ⁢ 
             _gain 
           
           = 
           
             
               Sin 
               ⁡ 
               
                 ( 
                 
                   
                     
                       - 
                       Phase_imbalance 
                     
                     ⁢ 
                     
                       ( 
                       deg 
                       ) 
                     
                     × 
                     π 
                   
                   360 
                 
                 ) 
               
             
             × 
             
               10 
               
                 0.025 
                 × 
                 Gain_imbalace 
                 ⁢ 
                 
                   ( 
                   dB 
                   ) 
                 
               
             
             × 
             
               2 
               ⋀ 
             
             ⁢ 
             6 
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
             rx_neg 
             ⁢ 
             _cos 
             ⁢ 
             _neg 
             ⁢ 
             _gain 
           
           = 
           
             
               Cos 
               ⁡ 
               
                 ( 
                 
                   
                     
                       - 
                       Phase_imbalance 
                     
                     ⁢ 
                     
                       ( 
                       deg 
                       ) 
                     
                     × 
                     π 
                   
                   360 
                 
                 ) 
               
             
             × 
             
               10 
               
                 
                   - 
                   0.025 
                 
                 × 
                 Gain_imbalace 
                 ⁢ 
                 
                   ( 
                   dB 
                   ) 
                 
               
             
             × 
             
               2 
               ⋀ 
             
             ⁢ 
             6 
           
         
       
     
   
     FIG. 12  shows a receiver DC offset generator  280 , which adds fixed offsets to the I and Q channels using adders  286  and  290  and the values stored in I offset register  288  and Q offset register  292 , respectively. This simulates the effect of DC offsets generated by the baseband converter  20  and ADC offsets of  FIG. 1 .