Patent ID: 8862064

Claim:
A self-testing transceiver comprising: a receiver including a front-end and a back-end, said front-end including a first amplifier providing digital gain control and outputting an amplified receive signal, a mixer for generating a down-converted signal from said amplified receive signal, and a second amplifier providing gain control for amplifying said down-converted signal to produce a front-end output signal, said back-end including one low-order low-pass filter (LPF), wherein said front-end gain is greater than said back-end gain; a transmitter including a power amplifier (PA) and a plurality of transmitter pre-PA stages; said plurality of transmitter pre-PA stages configured to generate a communication signal at a receive frequency of said transceiver and said receiver configured to process another communication signal at a transmit frequency of said transceiver, thereby enabling transceiver self-testing.