RF-Chain Signal Delay for Sensor Switching
The OP clarified in comments under the question that the intention is to compensate for group delay distortion introduced in the hardware. The typical approach to optimally compensate for this (in a least squared sense) with processing alone is to use the Wiener-Hopf equations to determine the coefficients of an equalizer that can be implemented with an FIR filter (meaning a difference equation with only feed-forward terms). I detail the full approach of doing this in these posts so will provide the links below, but to bottom line the process, the channel to be equalized (the receiver) is &quot;sounded&quot; with a known waveform that is spectrally rich (pseudo-random noise or frequency chirps are great choices as they also offer high average power or SNR; an impulse is a poor choice since it is a challenge to do that with high SNR), and with that and the received signal after the channel the reverse deconvolution can be computed in a least squared sense to determine the effective inverse channel, but importantly applicable to mixed phase systems (systems with both leading and trailing echoes) which on their own can't be inverted due to having zeros in the right-half plane. This approach would be ideally suited for distortions introduced in hardware implementations that are not changing with time (within an acceptable tolerance) since the channel can be sounded once and fixed coefficients determined relatively easily with pre-processing that can then be used without further modification, in contrast to the iterative algorithms that are needed to provide an adaptive solution for time-changing channels.
Details of the Wiener-Hopf Equations and shows application to determine the transfer function of the channel:
Compensating Loudspeaker frequency response in an audio signal
Equalizer Implementation Example by swapping Tx and Rx in the previous case, we can instead solve for the causal equalizer for a mixed phase system instead of the channel itself:
How determine the delay in my signal practically