The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services. The disclosure provides a mixer including a first impedance connected in parallel to a mixer output transformer and configured to remove a primary local frequency component generated at an output of the mixer, and a second impedance connected in parallel to the mixer output transformer and configured to remove a secondary local frequency component generated at the output of the mixer, wherein the first impedance operates as a series resonator in a primary local frequency band, and the second impedance operates as a parallel resonator in a secondary local frequency band.

In embodiments of the present disclosure, weighting on a direct current component coefficient dc.sub.i of an I-channel signal and a direct current component coefficient dc.sub.q of a Q-channel signal is performed based on spatial leakage factors k1 and k2 of a microwave chip and a current attenuation amount of a tunable attenuator, to determine a corrected direct current component coefficient dc.sub.i of the I-channel signal and a corrected direct current component coefficient dc.sub.q of the Q-channel signal, and a direct current component superimposed to the I-channel signal of the microwave chip and a direct current component superimposed to the Q-channel signal of the microwave chip are respectively determined based on the corrected direct current component coefficient dc.sub.i of the I-channel signal and the corrected direct current component coefficient dc.sub.q of the Q-channel signal.

The disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with an IoT technology. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security and safety-related services. The disclosure provides a mixer including a first impedance connected in parallel to a mixer output transformer and configured to remove a primary local frequency component generated at an output of the mixer, and a second impedance connected in parallel to the mixer output transformer and configured to remove a secondary local frequency component generated at the output of the mixer, wherein the first impedance operates as a series resonator in a primary local frequency band, and the second impedance operates as a parallel resonator in a secondary local frequency band.

A triple-balanced radio frequency (RF) mixer including a plurality of double-balanced mixer cells and a plurality of transformers is disclosed. Each of the plurality of transformers includes a primary and a secondary. Each primary is connected in series. Each secondary is connected across one double-balanced mixer cell of said plurality of double-balanced mixer cells. The triple-balanced RF mixer further includes a local oscillator (LO) port coupled to each of the plurality of double-balanced mixer cells in parallel, an output port coupled to each of the plurality of double-balanced mixer cells in parallel, and at least one non-ideality source providing at least one-non-ideality. The at least one non-ideality is cancelled at the output port.

Systems and methods are disclosed for compensating local oscillator leakage in a mixer. An example mixer includes a first double-balanced mixer core and a second double-balanced mixer. The first double-balanced mixer may comprise differential output nodes and may be configured to mix a first input signal with a first local oscillator signal. The second double-balanced mixer core may comprise second differential output nodes and may be configured to mix a second input signal with a second local oscillator signal. The second input signal may be approximately 180 out of phase with the first input signal. The second local oscillator signal may be approximately 180 out of phase with the first local oscillator signal. The differential output nodes may be electrically connected to the second differential output nodes, and the first double-balanced mixer core and the second double-balanced mixer core may be arranged to compensate for local oscillator leakage.

The present disclosure discloses a local oscillator feedthrough signal correction apparatus, including a microprocessor control unit, a first digital-to-analog converter, a second digital-to-analog converter, a mixer, a local oscillator, a signal output line, a signal splitter, and a detector tube. The signal splitter is disposed in the signal output line, and the first digital-to-analog converter and the second digital-to-analog converter are configured to provide the mixer with quadrature direct current components VI and VQ used for local oscillator feedthrough signal correction. The mixer outputs a local oscillator feedthrough signal to the signal output line. The signal splitter obtains the local oscillator feedthrough signal by means of splitting, and the detector tube detects the local oscillator feedthrough signal. When a detection value of the local oscillator feedthrough signal exceeds a preset target value, the microprocessor control unit adjusts output values of the VI and the VQ to reduce local oscillator feedthrough.

A frequency multiplier, which may include multiple commutator cells, for multiplying an input signal is provided. A frequency doubler is provided that includes at least one transformer. Each of the at least one transformer includes a primary and a secondary. Each secondary includes a center tap. The frequency doubler further includes at least one commutator cell. Each of the at least one commutator cell includes a first differential pair of input terminals and a second differential pair of input terminals. Each primary is connected to the first pair of differential input terminals and each secondary is connected to the second differential pair of input terminals. The frequency doubler further includes at least one current source and at least one ground. The center tap is connected to the at least one ground via the at least one current source.

Systems and methods are disclosed for improved linearity performance of a mixer. An example mixer includes switching circuit elements configured to be switched on and switched off based at least partly on a local oscillator signal and capacitors including a respective capacitor in parallel with each of the switching elements. The mixer is configured to mix the input signal with the local oscillator signal to thereby frequency shift the input signal.

Low voltage crystal oscillator having native NMOS transistors used for coupling/decoupling to/from GPIO. The native NMOS transistors function properly at a low supply voltage when on (low resistance) and a high supply voltage when off (high resistance). Oscillator Gm driver bias resistors are repurposed to degenerate the native NMOS transistors when they are off, thereby reducing the leakage current thereof (oscillator circuit decoupled from GPIO nodes). This ensures compliance with the CMOS IIH leakage current specification during an external clock (EC) mode at a high supply voltage.

Embodiments of the disclosure relate to optimizing power efficiency of a power amplifier circuit to reduce power consumption in a remote unit in a wireless distribution system (WDS). A power amplifier circuit is provided in the remote unit to amplify a received input signal associated with a signal channel(s) to generate an output signal at an aggregated peak power. In this regard, a control circuit is configured to analyze at least one physical property related to the signal channel(s) to determine a maximum output power of the power amplifier circuit. Accordingly, the control circuit configures the power amplifier circuit according to the determined maximum output power. By configuring the maximum output power based on the signal channel(s) in the input signal, it may be possible to optimize the power efficiency of the power amplifier circuit, thus helping to reduce the power consumption of the remote unit.