Understanding AD9364 Direct Conversion RFIC

Hi all, New year wishes :)
I am going through the specs of AD9364 which has direct conversion receiver architecture.
https://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-document...
When I see the block diagram, I notice there is an RF Local Oscialltor before the ADC. This confuses me. If it is direct conversion, what is the LO doing there before ADC. Shouldn't that be a phase splitter instead ?
Regards
Sumit

See perhaps the following article for an explanation :
https://www.mwrf.com/systems/differences-between-r...
Happy New Year

Got it! Thanks :)

Hi. Here's 'Part 2' of the article that brutor referenced:
https://www.mwrf.com/active-components/differences...

Thank you very much.
