Method for monitoring a radio frequency receiver and semiconductor device

A semiconductor device, comprising:

• a radio frequency (RF) receiver path;
• a digital signal generator configured to generate, based on a first signal, a digital test signal, the digital test signal comprising a stream of digital test samples, the stream of digital test samples comprising a first digital test sample;
• a monitor signal generator circuit configured to generate a monitoring signal based on the digital test signal;
• a coupler configured to couple the monitoring signal into the RF receiver path, wherein the RF receiver path is configured to process the monitoring signal in the RF receiver path and to generate a processed monitoring signal;
• a first circuit configured to generate a stream of digital monitoring samples representing the processed monitoring signal;
• a processing circuit configured to determine first information indicating at least one property related to the RF receiver path based on processing a set of digital monitoring samples from the stream of digital monitoring samples, the set of digital monitoring samples comprising a first digital monitoring sample of the set of digital monitoring samples;
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• a timing circuit configured to control the semiconductor device such that the first digital monitoring sample of the set of digital monitoring samples is generated at a predetermined time duration after generating of the first digital test sample of the stream of digital test samples.