The invention discloses a power mixer, radio frequency circuit, device and equipment, and belongs to the technical field of electronics and communication. The power mixer includes a mixer module, which amplifies an analog baseband current signal by a silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor amplifying circuit, and converts a local oscillator voltage signal into a local oscillator current signal by a silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor switching circuit. The silicon germanium heterojunction bipolar transistor switching circuit receives an amplified analog baseband current signal, and mixes the amplified analog baseband current signal and the local oscillator current signal into a radio frequency current signal; and a transformer module, which converts the radio frequency current signal into a radio frequency power signal and then outputs the radio frequency power signal from the power mixer.

The invention relates to a mixer for generating an analog output signal X.sub.OUT from an analog input signal X.sub.IN using a mixing signal having a mixing frequency f.sub.MIX, the mixer comprising: a scaler being configured to sample the analog input signal X.sub.IN at a plurality of discrete points in time k with a sampling frequency f.sub.S to obtain a sampled analog input signal X.sub.IN[k] having a continuous signal value, and to generate the analog output signal X.sub.OUT having a continuous signal value by scaling the sampled analog input signal X.sub.IN[k] on the basis of a plurality of scaling coefficients A[k], wherein the scaling coefficients A[k] are a time-discrete representation of the mixing signal.

An I/Q signal generating apparatus and phase shift apparatus using the same are provided, the I/Q signal generating apparatus including: a first resonance circuit whose one end is connected to a first input terminal and whose other end is connected to a first output terminal; and a second resonance circuit whose one end is connected to the other end of the first resonance circuit or a second input terminal, and whose other end is connected to a second output terminal, wherein the first resonance circuit and the second resonance circuit each include a resistor, a capacitor connected in parallel with the resistor, and an inductor connected in a form of a cross between the resistor and the capacitor.

An electronic device may include clocking circuitry with primary and secondary lasers that generate first and second optical local oscillator (LO) signals. A phase-locked loop (PLL) may tune the secondary laser based to phase lock the first and second optical LO signals. A self-injection locking loop path may couple an output of the secondary laser to its input. The self-injection locking loop path may include a first mixer and a second mixer. The first mixer may generate a beat signal using the first and second optical LO signals. The second mixer may generate a self-injection locking signal based on the first optical LO signal and the beat signal. A delay line or optical resonator may iteratively self-inject the self-injection locking signal onto the secondary laser. This may serve to minimize phase noise and jitter of the optical LO signals.

Described herein are systems and methods that allow for correcting a residual frequency offset in the GHz frequency range by using low-complexity analog circuit implementations of a broad-band frequency detector that comprises two analog polyphase filters in a dual configuration. Each filter comprises an RC network of cross-coupled capacitors that facilitate filters with opposite passbands and opposite stop-bands. In various embodiments, the outputs of the two filters are combined to obtain power metrics that when subtracted from each other, deliver a measure of the imbalance between the positive and negative halves of a frequency spectrum. Since the measure is substantially proportional to a frequency offset within a linear range spanning 5 GHz or more, the polyphase filters may be used in a broad-band frequency detector that, based on the measure, adjusts the frequency offset.

A broadband terahertz fourth-harmonic mixer circuit, a mixer and a method wherein the broadband terahertz fourth-harmonic mixer circuit includes a radio frequency signal coupled transmission unit, nonlinear device, local oscillator filter, local oscillator signal coupled transmission unit and intermediate frequency filter unit which are sequentially connected; and further includes a radio frequency input port, local oscillator input port and intermediate frequency output port, where the radio frequency input port is connected to the radio frequency signal coupled transmission unit, the local oscillator input port is connected to the local oscillator signal coupled transmission unit, the intermediate frequency output port is connected to an output end of the intermediate frequency filter unit, and the local oscillator filter is of a two-level cascaded filter structure.

A broadband terahertz fourth-harmonic mixer circuit, a mixer and a method wherein the broadband terahertz fourth-harmonic mixer circuit includes a radio frequency signal coupled transmission unit, nonlinear device, local oscillator filter, local oscillator signal coupled transmission unit and intermediate frequency filter unit which are sequentially connected; and further includes a radio frequency input port, local oscillator input port and intermediate frequency output port, where the radio frequency input port is connected to the radio frequency signal coupled transmission unit, the local oscillator input port is connected to the local oscillator signal coupled transmission unit, the intermediate frequency output port is connected to an output end of the intermediate frequency filter unit, and the local oscillator filter is of a two-level cascaded filter structure.

A biasing scheme for a frequency multiplication circuit, and transceiver using LO signals provided by the frequency multiplication circuit are described. A frequency doubler is cascaded with a mixer to provide a mm-wave oscillator signal. The combination provides a frequency triple that of the LO frequency supplied to the frequency doubler from a PLL. A small-sized replica of the frequency doubler is used to determine biasing of transconductance devices of the frequency doubler. A voltage output of the replica is amplified and the difference between the output and a reference voltage is supplied as feedback to the control terminal of the transconductance devices to bias the transconductance devices to near threshold. The biasing is replicated at the frequency doubler to compensate for PVT variations. A PTAT current source tied to the output of the replica regulates an average output current of the frequency multiplication circuit.

A device for monitoring a health parameter of a person is disclosed. The device includes a semiconductor substrate including at least one transmit component and multiple receive components, at least one transmit antenna configured to transmit millimeter range radio waves over a 3D space below the skin surface of a person, and multiple receive antennas configured to receive radio waves, the received radio waves including a reflected portion of the transmitted radio waves, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes circuits for processing signals received on the multiple receive antennas, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes at least one output configured to output a signal that corresponds to a health parameter of a person in response to received radio waves, and wherein the at least one transmit antenna is collocated with the at least one transmit component and the multiple receive antennas are collocated with respective ones of the multiple receive components.

A FMCW radar receiver includes a LO providing a chirped LO signal, an in-phase (I) channel for outputting I-data and a quadrature (Q) channel for outputting Q-data. A dynamic correction parameter generator generates IQ phase correction values (P[n]s) and IQ gain correction values (G[n]s) based on a frequency slope rate of the chirped LO signal for generating during intervals of chirps including a first sequence of P[n]s and G[n]s during a first chirp and a second sequence of P[n]s and G[n]s during a second chirp. An IQ mismatch (IQMM) correction circuit has a first IQMM input coupled to receive the I-data and a second IQMM input receiving the Q-data, and the P[n]s and G[n]s. During the first chirp the IQMM correction circuit provides first Q′-data and first I′-data and during the second chirp the IQMM correction circuit provides at least second Q′-data and second I′-data.