A radio-frequency circuit is used in simultaneous transfer of a radio-frequency signal of 4G and a radio-frequency signal of 5G, and includes a first transfer circuit that receives the radio-frequency signal of 4G or the radio-frequency signal of 5G which are input in a switching manner, and transfers a radio-frequency signal of a first communication band including a first transmission band and a first reception band and a radio-frequency signal of a second communication band including a second transmission band and a second reception band. The first and second transmission bands at least partially overlap. The first transfer circuit includes a first power amplifier that amplifies transmission signals of the first and second communication bands, and a first transmission filter that has a first passband including the first and second transmission bands, and passes the transmission signals of the first and second communication bands output from the first power amplifier.

Methods and devices to fabricate low-cost wideband LNAs that are tunable to multiple frequency bands. Decoupling capacitors are used as part of a tuning circuit implemented at the LNA input. The capacitors are switchably selectable to also tune a signal into desired frequency bands.

An energy-efficient implementation of a WiFi transceiver is proposed in this disclosure. The WiFi transceiver comprises a receive chain comprising a variable receive (Rx) filter circuit and a variable Rx analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuit. The receive chain is configured to receive a receive signal during a receive mode of operation, having a receive bandwidth associated therewith and receive a transmit signal associated with a transmit chain of the transceiver during a transmit mode of operation, having a transmit bandwidth associated therewith. The WiFi transceiver further comprises a control circuit configured to dynamically adapt a bandwidth of the variable Rx filter and the variable Rx ADC in the receive chain to the receive bandwidth or to the transmit bandwidth, based on the mode of operation.

In certain embodiments, a method of operating an electronic device, comprises: identifying strength of a signal within a first frequency band and strength of a signal within a second frequency band when operating in a mode of transmitting a signal within the first frequency band and a signal within the second frequency band; identifying first magnitudes of voltages based on mapping data in a memory, wherein the mapping data maps first magnitudes of the voltages according to strength of signal within the first frequency band and second magnitudes of the voltages according to strength of signal within the second frequency band, and the identified strength of the signal within the first frequency band; identifying the second magnitudes of the voltages based on the identified strength of the signal within the second frequency band and the mapping data; when there are identical magnitude of voltages among the first magnitudes of voltages applicable and the second magnitudes of voltages, controlling a power supply circuit to apply the identical magnitude of voltages to a first amplifier and/or a second amplifier.

An LTE frequency band switching device and method, and a mobile terminal are provided. The device includes a power amplification module, a switching module, a duplexer, an antenna switch and an antenna. An output signal is outputted to the switching module after being amplified by the power amplification module; the switching module divides same into a plurality of frequency band signals, and selects a current working frequency band according to a switching instruction; the duplexer controls the transceiving of a working frequency band signal; and when the antenna switch is turned on, the current working frequency band signal is transceived by the antenna.

A method and wireless communication device use a first processing unit to perform a first communication event within a first communication window by use of a first communication protocol, a second processing unit to perform a second communication event within a second communication window by use of a second communication protocol, and a wireless communication unit connected to a radio-frequency antenna to transmit and/or receive a packet wirelessly. The first and second processing units may perform the first and second communication events via the wireless communication unit. The second processing unit or the wireless communication unit may transmit an event signal to the first processing unit when performing the second communication event or receiving a packet, respectively, to allow the first processing unit to arrange the first communication window (or first communication event) with respect to the second communication window (or second communication event) to minimize interference.

An electronic device and a method performed by an electronic device are provided. A number of frequency bands of a plurality of carriers to be used in a plurality of communication circuits for communication is determined. The plurality of communication circuits process carrier signals in different frequency bands. A switching operation, performed by at least one switch, is controlled based on the number of frequency bands and a specified condition that is based on frequency bands able to be processed by an LNA included in each of the plurality of communication circuits. The carrier signals of the plurality of carriers is processed using at least one communication circuit. The at least one switch is alternately connected to two communication circuits and is configured to provide a reception carrier signal from at least one antenna to one of the two communication circuits based on a switching operation.

A transmission/reception circuit includes a low-noise amplifier, switches, a band-pass filter, a power amplifier, and a low-pass filter. The low-noise amplifier is connected, at its output terminal, to a terminal. The switch is connected to the input terminal. The band-pass filter is connected to the switch and to an antenna through a terminal. The power amplifier is connected to a terminal. The switch is connected to the output terminal and to the band-pass filter. The low-pass filter is connected to a terminal, and removes a frequency band higher than the frequency band of a signal that is to be transmitted. The switch is connected to the output terminal and to the low-pass filter. The switch is connected to a terminal and to the low-pass filter.

A flexible multi-path RF adaptive tuning network switch architecture that counteracts impedance mismatch conditions arising from various combinations of coupled RF band filters, particularly in a Carrier Aggregation-based (CA) radio system. In one version, a digitally-controlled tunable matching network is coupled to a multi-path RF switch in order to provide adaptive impedance matching for various combinations of RF band filters. Optionally, some or all RF band filters include an associated digitally-controlled filter pre-match network to further improve impedance matching. In a second version, some or all RF band filters coupled to a multi-path RF switch include a digitally-controlled phase matching network to provide necessary per-band impedance matching. Optionally, a digitally-controlled tunable matching network may be included on the common port of the multi-path RF switch to provide additional impedance matching capability. In a third version, CA direct mapped adaptive tuning networks include filter tuning blocks for selected lower frequency bands.

A system for interference mitigation includes: a transmit coupler; a receive coupler; a duplexer; and an interference cancellation module that includes a receive-band filter, a transmit-band filter, and an interference cancellation system.