Patent ID: 8526898

Claim:
A wideband receiver system comprising: a wideband receiver configured to concurrently receive a plurality of desired RF channels located in non-contiguous portions of an RF spectrum; said wideband receiver comprising: a mixer module coupled to the plurality of desired RF channels and having a first mixer configured to generate an in-phase signal and a second mixer configured to generate a quadrature signal; a wideband analog-to-digital converter (ADC) module having a first wideband ADC coupled with the in-phase signal and configured to generate a digitalized in-phase signal and a second wideband ADC coupled with the quadrature signal and configured to generate a digitalized quadrature signal; and a digital frontend (DFE) module having a plurality of complex mixers coupled to the digital in-phase and quadrature signals, each one of the plurality of complex mixers frequency-shifting a different one of the plurality of the desired RF channels to form a contiguous spectrum of channels.