Re: Understanding Spurious Emissions
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 10:38 pm, Ashhar Farhan wrote:
Yes they are a conundrum in three ports. However I did explore the path of the TIA amp now working well and terminated it with a 6db pad... no improvement at all. Same for the output to the filter 6db pad and again no improvement. In both cases there was a shift in levels of 6db and 12DB (ran both!) and no difference in spur production. The only thing that seems to impact the amplitude of the spur is the port to port isolation more so than termination. I believe it to be a alias image as it has the same relationships. It only shows when the relationship is such that its below filter cutoff. I replicated it at 45/73mhz and for experiment I did a 9mhz if, 23mhz LO and without filtering I could see the desired 14 and also 5mhz spur! Its relationship is output frequency 14mhz minus IF and its about 38db down from the desired 14mhz (two different ZLW-2 connectorized mixers). I never noticed a mixer spreadsheet I have from somewhere predicts it. Likely reason I never noticed it was most applications there is fairly strong filtering for the desired. I checked and it doesn't happen to the same extent with analog multiplier mixers (gilbert cell) like sa602 as they are not bidirectional (very high input to output isolation). Nyquist was right. Its the sampling behaviour of switching mixers. Allison
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