Questions tagged [direct-conversion]

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What are the I and Q in quadrature sampling?

For some reason I've long believed that given I and Q, one corresponds to amplitude, and one to phase, so I thought that I could hold one steady and create AM, or hold the other steady and create FM. Now that I'm delving more into it, though, it…
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