Patent ID: 8693959

Claim:
A system for transmitting and receiving data comprising: a low noise amplifier configured to receive a modulated incoming carrier signal having a carrier signal frequency; a local oscillator configured to generate a signal having a subharmonic frequency of the carrier signal; a first mixer coupled to the low noise amplifier and the local oscillator, the first mixer configured to receive the modulated incoming carrier signal and generating an in-phase incoming data signal; a second mixer coupled to the low noise amplifier and the local oscillator, the second mixer configured to receive the modulated incoming carrier signal and generate a quadrature phase incoming data signal, wherein the first and second mixers multiply the signal of the local oscillator by a factor equal to the inverse of the subharmonic frequency prior to mixing the signal of the local oscillator with the carrier signal; a modulator coupled to the local oscillator, the modulator configured to receive an outgoing data signal and modulate the outgoing data signal onto the local oscillator signal to generate an outgoing modulated carrier signal; a transmit amplifier coupled to the modulator, the transmit amplifier configured to amplify the outgoing modulated carrier signal to a transmission power level; and a general purpose computing platform coupled to the first mixer, the second mixer, and the modulator, the general purpose computing platform configured to decode an incoming data signal from the in-phase incoming data signal and the quadrature phase incoming data signal, and generate the outgoing data signal.