Adaptive Canceller Limitations Caused by I,Q Mismatch Errors.
Abstract
The effects of I and Q phase, amplitude, and low pass filter (LPF) errors on adaptive cancellers are investigated. I,Q errors occur because of errors in the synthesis process of the mixers and LPFs designed to be identical for each input channel. These I,Q errors among the channels result in cancellation degradation. Tapped delay line transversal filters have been proposed as a way to compensate for these errors and thus improve cancellation performance. However, it is shown that if there is any LPF mismatch, then transversal filter has a small effect on improving canceller performance. The method of individual I,Q adaptive transversal filter weighting is suggested as a means of eliminating the phase and amplitude errors and making the canceller performance responsive to transversal filter compensation. In addition, the cancellation performance of cascaded mismatched IF and I,Q filters is briefly considered. Keywords: Adaptive filter; Radar; Adaptive cancellation. (JHD)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 05, 1989
- Accession Number
- ADA214287
Entities
People
- Karl R. Gerlach
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory