Patent attributes
Techniques for detecting and mitigating intermodulation distortion (IMD) are described. A device (e.g., a cellular phone) obtains digital intermodulation distortion and digitally determines intermodulation distortion in an input signal based on the digital intermodulation distortion. The device may correlate the digital intermodulation distortion with the input signal and determine intermodulation distortion in the input signal based on correlation results. The device may adjust the operation of one or more circuit blocks (e.g., a mixer, an LNA, etc.) in a receiver based on the detected intermodulation distortion in the input signal. Alternatively or additionally, the device may condition the digital intermodulation distortion to obtain conditioned intermodulation distortion matching intermodulation distortion in the input signal and may then subtract the conditioned intermodulation distortion from the input signal.
