A Baseband transmitter for a radio frequency (RF) communication device
according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a
single-carrier processor, a pulse shape filter, a multi-carrier processor
and a signal combiner. The single-carrier processor generates a
single-carrier signal at a first sample rate. The pulse shape filter
includes multiple polyphase filters which filter the single-carrier
signal according to a time shaping pulse that approximates a
multi-carrier power spectrum and a sample switch that selects outputs of
the polyphase filters at a second sample rate. The multi-carrier
processor generates a multi-carrier signal at the second sample rate. The
signal combiner combines the filtered single-carrier signal with the
multi-carrier signal while maintaining phase, gain, frequency and timing
alignment.