A variable low intermediate frequency (VLIF), millimeter wave (mmW) communication system including a millimeter-wave (mmW) integrated circuit (mmw-IC) having a receive section having a receive radio frequency (RF) conversion stage and a receive variable intermediate frequency (IF) conversion stage, the receive RF conversion stage configured to convert a receive communication signal between RF and a first receive IF; the receive variable IF conversion stage configured to convert the first receive IF signal to a first variable low IF signal, and a transmit section having a transmit variable IF conversion stage and a transmit RF conversion stage, the transmit variable IF conversion stage configured to convert a second variable low IF signal to a second IF signal, the transmit RF conversion stage configured to convert the second IF signal to an RF signal for transmission.

In a method of a heterodyne FDD receiver for enabling reception of a multi-band RXRF signal spectrum, an RXRF signal spectrum is received, which comprises a lower frequency band and a higher frequency band. A Local Oscillator, LO, output frequency, f.sub.LO, is selected based on a frequency f.sub.A of the lower frequency band, and a frequency f.sub.B of the higher frequency band. Moreover, the RXRF signal spectrum is frequency shifted into an RXIF signal spectrum, by mixing the RXRF signal spectrum with the LO output frequency f.sub.LO. The LO frequency f.sub.LO is selected to satisfy f.sub.A<f.sub.LO<f.sub.B, where f.sub.A and f.sub.B are any frequency of the lower or higher frequency band, respectively.

In an example, a method includes: in a first mode, causing a first tuner of an entertainment system to receive and process a first RF signal from a first antenna configured for a first band to output a first audio signal of a first radio station and causing a second tuner of the entertainment system to receive a second RF signal from a second antenna configured for the first band to determine signal quality metrics for one or more radio stations of the first band; in a second mode, causing the first tuner to output a first signal representation of the first RF signal and causing the second tuner to receive and process the second RF signal to output a second signal representation of the second RF signal; and causing a phase diversity combining circuit to process the first and second signal representations to output an audio signal of the first radio station, without disruption of output from the entertainment system of a broadcast of the first radio station.

Methods and systems are provided for band translation with protection. A signal processing circuitry (chip) may be configured to receive and process a plurality of input signals, and generate one or more output signals based on the plurality of input signals. The processing may comprise determining when including a component of a first input signal into at least one output signal would have an effect on a component of a second input signal that is also to be included in the output signal, and applying, based on the effect, one or more adjustments to processing of one or both of the first signal and the second signal to mitigate the effect before generating the output signal. In this regard, applying the one or more adjustments may comprise applying one or both of filtering and spectral inversion to one or both of the first signal and the second signal.

Methods and apparatus for providing bandpass analog to digital conversion (ADC) in RF receiver circuitry of a wireless-communication device. The bandpass ADC includes first noise-shaping successive approximation register (NS-SAR) circuitry arranged in a first path and second NS-SAR circuitry arranged in a second path parallel to the first path, wherein the first and second NS-SAR circuitries are configured to alternately sample an analog input voltage at a particular sampling rate and to output a digital voltage at the particular sampling rate.

In a method of a heterodyne FDD receiver for enabling reception of a multi-band RXRF signal spectrum, an RXRF signal spectrum is received, which comprises a lower frequency band and a higher frequency band. A Local Oscillator, LO, output frequency, f.sub.LO, is selected based on a frequency f.sub.A of the lower frequency band, and a frequency f.sub.B of the higher frequency band. Moreover, the RXRF signal spectrum is frequency shifted into an RXIF signal spectrum, by mixing the RXRF signal spectrum with the LO output frequency f.sub.LO. The LO frequency f.sub.LO is selected to satisfy f.sub.A<f.sub.LO<f.sub.B, where f.sub.A and f.sub.B are any frequency of the lower or higher frequency band, respectively, such that when mixing the RXRF signal spectrum, one of the lower frequency band and the higher frequency band is frequency shifted into a first frequency band of the RXIF signal spectrum, and one another of the lower frequency band and the higher frequency band is frequency shifted folded into a second frequency band of the RXIF signal spectrum.

Mobile devices with dual conversion of multiple frequency bands using a shared intermediate frequency are provided. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a frequency range two (FR2) front end system configured to upconvert a first intermediate frequency (IF) transmit signal to generate a first radio frequency (RF) transmit signal of a first frequency band in FR2 of 5G, and to upconvert a second IF transmit signal to generate a second RF transmit signal of a second frequency band in FR2. The mobile device further includes a transceiver configured to generate the first IF transmit signal and the second IF transmit signal on a common intermediate frequency.

Methods and systems are provided for band translation with protection. A signal processing circuitry (chip) may be configured to handle a plurality of signals, comprising at least a first signal corresponding to internal communication within an in-premises network and at least a second signal originating from a source external to the in-premises network; and to process on-chip the plurality of input signals, to generate one or more output signals. In this regard, at least one output signal may comprise components corresponding to the first signal and the second signal; and the processing may be configured to mitigate on-chip, during generating of the one or more outputs, at least one effect of including in the at least one output signal a first component corresponding to one of the first signal and the second signal on a second component corresponding to the other one of the first signal and the second signal.

Methods and apparatus for providing bandpass analog to digital conversion (ADC) in RF receiver circuitry of a wireless-communication device. The bandpass ADC includes first noise-shaping successive approximation register (NS-SAR) circuitry arranged in a first path and second NS-SAR circuitry arranged in a second path parallel to the first path, wherein the first and second NS-SAR circuitries are configured to alternately sample an analog input voltage at a particular sampling rate and to output a digital voltage at the particular sampling rate.

A wide tuning range receiver is provided that includes first and second mixers, and first and second local oscillators. The first mixer can mix an input signal with a signal from the first local oscillator and output a signal having a first intermediate frequency, the second mixer can mix the signal having the first intermediate frequency with a signal from the second local oscillator and output a signal having a second intermediate frequency, and, for each input signal frequency, a relationship between the first and second local oscillators can be fixed.