Patent ID: 8099072

Claim:
Apparatus comprising: a filter to receive from an antenna a receive (Rx) signal of a given type and a low noise amplifier to amplify the Rx signal; a translator to down translate the Rx signal carried at a radio frequency to be carried at an intermediate frequency; an I/Q channel separator to separate the Rx signal carried at the intermediate frequency into an analog in-phase (I) signal in an I channel and an analog quadrature-phase (Q) signal in a Q channel; an analog-to-digital converter to respectively convert the I signal and the Q signal to digital domain representations of the I signal and the Q signal; and an intermodulation (IM) distortion avoider to avoid IM distortion in the Rx signal, the IM distortion avoider including a carrier frequency exchanger to exchange an IM carrier frequency of IM distortion contained in the Rx signal with a carrier frequency of the Rx signal.