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If present, nonlinear effects in a six-port modulator cause distortion and degradation of the quality of the modulated output waveform. How nonlinear effects occur and their impact on system performance were derived in a mathematical model. The model shows that non-ideal performance of the passive six-port correlator is the main contributor to nonl...
A new circuit architecture for a direct-carrier six-port modulator is proposed. The proposed architecture uses parallel binary-valued baseband signals to control binary-valued impedance loads for generation of rectangular M-QAM modulation. A theoretical model of the proposed modulator is also derived. A prototype modulator for 64 quadrature amplitu...
A triplexer for ultra-wideband radio implemented entirely with distributed microstrips is presented. The triplexer is composed of a triplex junction network and three bandpass filters. The circuit is integrated in a flex-rigid printed circuit board. Three flat 1 GHz sub-bands in the frequency band 6-9 GHz have been achieved. The group delay variati...
In six-port modulators a phase shifting network on specific ports can be used to suppress the carrier leakage that may be present if this network is not present. A model is derived to predict the carrier leakage suppression and error vector magnitude (EVM) as a function of the phase shifting network S-parameters. Both carrier leakage suppression an...
A differential six-port modulator for the 7–8 GHz band is reported for the first time. It is composed of a differential six-port correlator with cold-mode field effect transistors used as impedance terminations, controlled via baseband signal on the gate to source terminal. It is fabricated using double-sided parallel-strip lines. The differential...
The performance of two different six-port demodu- lator prototypes for the UWB band 6 to 8.5 GHz are presented. Both configurations allow for a simplified interface to amplifier and filter. In addition, one of the configurations also have odd- order harmonic suppression. Measurements show good modu- lation properties when a 16 quadrature amplitude...
The use of Schottky diodes as high-speed variable impedance loads in six-port modulators are proposed and analyzed in this paper. The impedance dependency of diode parameters and local oscillator power are investigated by theoretical analysis and simulations. A prototype for a direct carrier six-port modulator using Schottky diodes for impedance ge...
New design methodology for truly differential RF and microwave front-ends has been presented in this paper. Baluns are avoided using this design methodology, while achieving differential signaling for high noise immunity. A case study on an ultra-wide band RF front-end in the frequency band 6-9 GHz has been performed using the new design methodolog...
Using our own-developed frequency multiplexing network, a radio architecture for parallel radio signal processing has been proposed for achieving extremely high data rate above 10 Gbit/s. To meet the high requirement on phase linearity, amplitude balance and low noise figure in a very large bandwidth, our own-developed ultra-wideband six-port corre...
Two fully integrated dipole antennas with balun for ultra-wideband (UWB) radio utilizing a flexible and rigid printed circuit board are presented in this paper. The concept in this paper is to take advantage of the respective possibilities of the rigid and the flexible part. The balun utilizes broadside-coupled microstrips and is integrated in the...
