Hi Alexander,
As I mentioned before, IQ phase error is quite stable over temperature
in 900/1800MHz region so let us put it aside. This can be tuned and
fixed in production.
On the other hand, DC offset and LO leakage are temperature dependent as
one would expect. However, they can be calibrated in the product as well
not just in the lab. You need just to trigger built in DC cal blocks and
optionally use RF loop back to further improve LO leakage. If you want
to avoid temperature sensor you have an option to do these calibrations
regularly, every 30min-1h for example. This should track the temperature
change without having the sensor on board.
Our other customers are using both approaches, with and without
temperature sensor, depending on application and spec. If they have on
board temperature sensor they are using it for multiple purpose such as
monitoring BB, PA, etc.
Best regards, Srdjan
Dr Srdjan Milenkovic
On 26/07/2012 16:48, Alexander Chemeris wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Alexander Chemeris
<alexander.chemeris(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 3:31 PM, Srdjan
Milenkovic
<s.milenkovic(a)limemicro.com> wrote:
Combining Thomas's idea of DC recalibration
and, if necessary, making
look
up table for IQ phase error correction vs temperature should put us in
good
position to meet the specs.
Well, AFAIK, LMS6002D doesn't have a temperature
sensor built in and
this means we have to install an external one, which again increase
BoM cost. Is that's how this issue is solved by your other customers?
I wonder is there a way to solve this without introducing a
temperature compensation loop.
Let me clarify - DC offset re-calibration is (more
or less) fine in
lab setup, but it's expensive to manufacture if we have to add
temperature sensors and put every unit into a temperature camera for
calibration.
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Regards,
Alexander Chemeris.
CEO, Fairwaves LLC / ООО УмРадио
http://fairwaves.ru