LTC5599
Applications Information
Table 4. I/Q Gain Ratio Step Size vs Digital Gain
Setting (continued)
DG (dB)
–16
G (V/V)
0.158
∆GI/GQ (mdB)
30.7
–17
0.141
34.6
–18
0.126
39.0
–19
0.112
44.1
The conversion gain of the I-channel and Q-channel are
equal for NIQ = 128. The I-channel gain is larger than the
Q-channel gain for NIQ > 128.
Disable Q-Channel
Table 5. Register 0x00 Setting vs LO Frequency (continued)
REGISTER VALUE
LO FREQUENCY RANGE (MHz)
DECIMAL BINARY HEX LOWER BOUND UPPER BOUND
15
0001111 0F
961.8
988.2
16
0010000 10
941.3
961.7
17
0010001 11
921.5
941.2
18
0010010 12
895.2
921.4
19
0010011 13
877.6
895.1
20
0010100 14
863.6
877.5
21
0010101 15
843.2
863.5
22
0010110 16
826.9
843.1
23
0010111 17
807.0
826.8
If bit 5 in register 0x01 (QDISABLE) is set, the Q-channel
24
0011000 18
792.3
806.9
is switched off, turning the I/Q modulator into an upcon-
25
0011001 19
772.2
792.2
version mixer. It is recommended to float the BBPQ and
26
0011010 1A
752.7
772.1
BBMQ pins in this mode. The default mode is Q-channel
27
0011011 1B
734.0
752.6
is on (QDISABLE = 0).
28
0011100 1C
724.2
739.9
LO Section (Register 0x00)
29
0011101 1D
30
0011110 1E
704.6
688.7
724.1
704.5
The internal LO chain consists of a poly-phase filter which
31
0011111 1F
673.2
688.6
generates the I and Q signals for the image-reject double-
32
0100000 20
655.2
673.1
balanced mixer. The center frequency of the poly-phase
33
0100001 21
638.1
655.1
filter is set by the lower seven bits of register 0x00. The
34
0100010 22
624.6
638.0
recommended settings vs LO frequency are given in Table 5
35
0100011 23
611.9
624.5
(see the QuikEval™ GUI).
36
0100100 24
598.4
611.8
Table 5. Register 0x00 Setting vs LO Frequency
REGISTER VALUE
LO FREQUENCY RANGE (MHz)
DECIMAL BINARY HEX LOWER BOUND UPPER BOUND
0
0000000 00
N/A
N/A
1
0000001 01
1249.1
1300.0
2
0000010 02
1248.6
1249.0
3
0000011 03
1238.1
1248.5
4
0000100 04
1214.1
1238.0
5
0000101 05
1191.2
1214.0
6
0000110 06
1165.6
1191.1
7
0000111 07
1141.0
1165.5
8
0001000 08
1120.6
1140.9
9
0001001 09
1100.5
1120.5
10
0001010 0A
1069.5
1100.4
11
0001011 0B
1039.6
1069.4
12
0001100 0C
1023.1
1039.5
13
0001101 0D
1007.1
1023.0
14
0001110 0E
988.3
1007.0
37
0100101 25
38
0100110 26
39
0100111 27
40
0101000 28
41
0101001 29
42
0101010 2A
43
0101011 2B
44
0101100 2C
45
0101101 2D
46
0101110 2E
47
0101111 2F
48
0110000 30
49
0110001 31
50
0110010 32
51
0110011 33
52
0110100 34
53
0110101 35
54
0110110 36
585.1
573.9
563.1
548.1
538.1
529.1
518.5
507.0
497.7
488.0
471.5
457.7
448.7
437.4
426.6
417.5
407.5
398.0
598.3
585.0
573.8
563.0
548.0
538.0
529.0
518.4
506.9
497.6
487.9
471.4
457.6
448.6
437.3
426.5
417.4
407.4
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