A subsampling
receiver (50, 50′, 50″) for converting an RF
signal to
baseband is disclosed. The subsampling
receiver (50, 50′, 50″) may be implemented into a
wireless communications device (40), such as a
wireless telephone
handset. In one disclosed embodiment, the
receiver (50) includes a
sample and hold circuit (80) that samples a bandpass filtered input modulated
signal at the subsampling frequency (fs) that is well below the RF carrier frequency but twice the bandwidth (BW) of the
payload; the sampled
signal is digitized, and applied to two digital mixers (85I, 85Q) to produce in-phase and quadrature components (I,Q) of the
payload. In another embodiment, the receiver (50′) includes two
sample and hold circuits (96I, 96Q) to sample the filtered signal at different phases of the sampling frequency, to produce the in-phase and quadrature digital components. In a third embodiment, the receiver (50″) includes an analog mixer (116) to downconvert the RF input to an
intermediate frequency, prior to
digitization and digital mixing at quadrature phase.