I simulated a simple receiver using ADS budget,which has a amp,mixer and another amp.I find the noise figure is always 3dB more than that of non-image noise.But I read the "pratical rf system design".in page 69,it says,if the gain of first amp is low such as 5 dB,the difference between the noise and non-image noise is 1dB.
what's wrong?
I simulated a simple receiver using ADS budget,which has a amp,mixer and another amp.I find the noise figure is always 3dB more than that of non-image noise.But I read the "pratical rf system design".in page 69,it says,if the gain of first amp is low such as 5 dB,the difference between the noise and non-image noise is 1dB.
what's wrong?
what do you mean with non-image noise? is your receiver zero-if or heterodyne? the contribution of the image noise to the noise figure depends on your receiver topology: homodyne or heterodyne for example...