Methods and QAM receiver for performing timing recovery

A quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) receiver comprising an arrangement for performing timing recovery, wherein the QAM receiver is configured to receive a signal comprising a sequence of symbols, wherein each symbol is represented by a respective IQ pair comprising a respective In-phase (I) component and a respective Quadrature (Q) component, the arrangement comprising:

• a first analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to sample the respective I component of each IQ pair;
• a second ADC configured to sample the respective Q component of each IQ pair;
• an offset element configured to provide a relative timing offset between the sampling of the respective I component and the sampling of the respective Q component;
• a first quality detector configured to establish a first value associated with a quality of I component samples;
• a second quality detector configured to establish a second value associated with a quality of Q component samples;
• a comparing unit configured to compare the first value and the second value to determine if a sampling timing is to be advanced or delayed to improve the sample quality;
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• an adjustment unit configured to adjust, to improve the sample quality, subsequent sampling by advancing or delaying the sampling timing based on a result from the comparing unit, thereby performing timing recovery.