Time-Interleaved Analog to Digital Converters (TI ADC) consist of several individual sub-converters operating at a lower sampling rate, working in parallel, and in a circular loop. Thereby, they are increasing the sampling rate without compromising on the resolution during conversion, at high sampling rates. The latter is the main requirement in the area of radio frequency sampling. However, they suffer from mismatches caused by the different characteristics in each sub-converter and the TI structure. The output of the TI ADC under consideration contains a lot of harmonics and spurious tones due to the non-linearities mismatch between the sub-converters. Therefore, previously extensive frequency planning was performed to avoid the input signal from coinciding with these harmonic bins. More importance has been given to digital calibration in recent years where algorithms are developed and implemented outside ADC in a Digital signal processor (DSP), whereas the compensation is done in real time. In this work, we model the distortions and the harmonics present in the TI ADC output to get a clear understanding of the TI ADC. A post-correction block is developed for the cancellation of the characterized harmonics. The suggested method is tested on the TI ADCs working at radio frequencies, but is valid also for other types of ADCs, such as pipeline ADCs and sigma-delta ADCs.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:55:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FranciscoJTV_TESE.pdf: 16694617 bytes, checksum: 98c04bab1f2a3180ba8bd87b03174888 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-05-24 / The exponential growth in the applications of radio frequency (RF) is accompanied by great challenges as more efficient use of spectrum as in the design of new architectures for multi-standard receivers or software defined radio (SDR) . The key challenge in designing architecture of the software defined radio is the implementation of a wide-band receiver, reconfigurable, low cost, low power consumption, higher level of integration and flexibility. As a new solution of SDR design, a direct demodulator architecture, based on fiveport technology, or multi-port demodulator, has been proposed. However, the use of the five-port as a direct-conversion receiver requires an I/Q calibration (or regeneration) procedure in order to generate the in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components of the transmitted baseband signal. In this work, we propose to evaluate the performance of a blind calibration technique without additional knowledge about training or pilot sequences of the transmitted signal based on independent component analysis for the regeneration of I/Q five-port downconversion, by exploiting the information on the statistical properties of the three output signals / Estudos recentes apontam que o aumento nas aplica??es de r?dio frequ?ncia (RF) vem acompanhado por grandes desafios tanto no uso eficiente do espectro eletromagn?tico quanto no projeto de novas arquiteturas para receptores multi-padr?o, ou r?dio definidos por software (RDS). O principal desafio da arquitetura f?sica de um RDS ? a implementa??o de um receptor banda-larga com caracter?sticas de baixo custo, baixo consumo, maior grau de integra??o e flexibilidade. A arquitetura homodina, baseada na tecnologia cinco-portas, surge como uma alternativa para aplica??es em r?dio definidos por software. No entanto, a regenera??o das componentes em fase e quadratura, no receptor cinco-portas, comumente denominada de calibra??o, constitui um dos maiores desafios na aplica??o dessa tecnologia. Os m?todos de calibra??o, propostos na literatura, normalmente baseiam-se no conhecimento do modelo matem?tico do circuito, em que o mesmo ? calibrado previamente (off-line), para um tipo de sinal com caracter?sticas espec?ficas ou em tempo real, com base no conhecimento da sequ?ncia de aprendizagem e do tipo de modula??o. Nesse trabalho, ? apresentado uma proposta de regenera??o cega dessas componentes, para um receptor homodino cinco-portas, utilizando a abordagem denominada Separa??o Cega de Fontes (an?lise de componentes independentes - ICA), que explora as caracter?sticas estat?sticas dos tr?s sinais de sa?da do receptor cinco-portas. A valida??o dessa abordagem ? realizada por meio de simula??o e de resultados experimentais obtidos para o receptor cinco portas implementado em tecnologia de microfita