Digital radios no longer dwell on the periphery of consumer electronics—in fact, they’ve been in the mainstream for quite some time now. Fundamentally, these transceivers use high-speed analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) and digital-to-analog converters (DACs) to replace the traditional baseband mixer stage. This architecture has many advantages because baseband conversion is done in the digital domain, allowing for...
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