Downconverter

In digital communications signals can be transmitted in baseband or passband. On receiver side usually a downconverter is used to transform the signal from the passband back to the baseband for further processing.The local oszillator frequency is with the carrier frequency. This results in a scaling of the received signal by and a phase shifting by to the left, so that the resulting signal is located in the baseband.
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