摘要 |
Second order distortion products in a digital receiver front end are converted into broadband noise. An illustrative embodiment includes a noise generator, first and second combiners, and a non-linear device (e.g., an analog-to-digital converter). An input signal is combined with the noise signal by the first combiner, and the combined signal is applied to the non-linear device. The output signal from this device is applied to the second combiner. The second combiner is also driven with a time-delayed version of the noise signal, and performs a reconstructive multiplication, synchronously recovering the desired output signal. Even-order distortion products introduced by the non-linear device persist only as a low level of wideband noise in the final output signal.
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