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PRACTICAL CIRCUITS · Software defined radio fundamentals: digital signal processing (DSP) filtering, modulation, and demodulation; analog-digital conversion; digital filters

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Which method generates an SSB signal using digital signal processing?

  1. AMixing products are converted to voltages and subtracted by adder circuits
  2. BA frequency synthesizer removes unwanted sidebands
  3. CVarying quartz crystal characteristics are emulated in digital form
  4. DSignals are combined in quadrature phase relationship
Why DSP transmitters build SSB with the phasing method: the audio is split into two paths whose components differ by 90 degrees (a Hilbert transform provides the wideband phase shift), and those in-phase and quadrature signals modulate carriers that are also 90 degrees apart. When the two products are summed, one sideband adds in phase and the other cancels, leaving a single sideband with no crystal filter required. This quadrature I/Q approach is easy in software because exact 90 degree shifts and perfectly matched amplitudes are just arithmetic.
Watch out The idea of converting mixing products to voltages and subtracting them in adder circuits sounds like analog cancellation but it ignores the essential phase relationship, and a frequency synthesizer only sets the operating frequency, it cannot strip a sideband. Emulating crystal characteristics describes the filter method, not what a quadrature modulator does.
SSB in software = I and Q, 90 degrees apart. Quadrature cancels one sideband.
HamSandwich explanation, first draft. The question and answers are the NCVEC text.
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  1. E7F01 What is meant by "direct sampling" in software defined radios?
  2. E7F02 What kind of digital signal processing audio filter is used to remove unwanted noise from a received SSB sign…
  3. E7F03 What type of digital signal processing filter is used to generate an SSB signal?
  4. E7F04 Which method generates an SSB signal using digital signal processing?
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  9. E7F09 Why is an anti-aliasing filter required in a decimator?
  10. E7F10 What aspect of receiver analog-to-digital conversion determines the maximum receive bandwidth of a direct-sam…
  11. E7F11 What sets the minimum detectable signal level for a direct-sampling software defined receiver in the absence …
  12. E7F12 Which of the following is generally true of Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters?
  13. E7F13 What is the function of taps in a digital signal processing filter?
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