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8.7
Sideband Rejection
Basic Test Procedure
An iterative process is used to achieve the best performance.
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Place a normal marker at the peak upper sideband, place a delta marker at the carrier signal, and note
the initial delta value.
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Set initial DACA offset to 0 and DACB offset to 0.
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Change DACA offset by 1000 steps and monitor the output performance change.
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If performance gets better, then repeat the process with an additional 1000 steps. If the performance
gets worse or doesn't change, then change the offset in the other direction by 1000 steps.
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Once the best performance remains basically unchanged, repeat the process on DACB offset with
1000 step changes.
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Once optimized, go back to the A side and repeat the tuning process with a step size of 100.
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Continue tuning. After each complete cycle, reduce the step size down (i.e., to 10, then to 1 if desired).
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A performance greater that 70 dBc should be achievable.
Sideband rejection is determined by the two quadrature signals to the modulator being exactly 180
degrees out of phase and exactly the same amplitude. Amplitude and phase imbalance between the two
paths yield an unwanted lower sideband. The amplitude variation between the two paths can be
compensated for by adjusting the DAC fine gain controls or by adjusting the QMC gain controls if the
device is operating with the QMC on. The phase can be compensated by using the QMC phase
adjustment. Note this is only possible when the coarse mixer is not used in the f
DAC
/4 mode. Coarse
mixing in the f
DAC
/4 mode causes the relative phase information between I and Q paths to be mixed. In the
f
DAC
/2 mode there are no cross terms (terms are 0) and the relative phase information is maintained
between I and Q paths.
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Place marker delta on the lower sideband
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Turn on the QMC. Set the Gain of the QMC to 1024 for gain of 0 dB for I and Q paths. Other initial
settings may be needed depending on the state of the NCO gain and signal amplitude.
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Change the phase of the QMC by small increments until the sideband is minimized.
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Change the QMC A or B gains in increments of 1 until the sideband is minimized.
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The overall performance should be greater than 60 dBc from the other sideband with amplitude and
phase corrections.
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Re-optimized the dc-offset values as required to maintain carrier suppression performance as
specified.
Figure 22. DAC GUI With Typical Settings To Minimize LO and Sideband
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TSW3003 Demonstration Kit
SLWU029D – October 2006 – Revised August 2007