Techniques maintaining receiver reliability, including determining a present attenuation level for an attenuator, wherein the attenuation level is set by a gain controller, determining a relative reliability threshold based on the present attenuation level, receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal, determining a voltage level of the received RF signal, comparing the voltage level of the received RF signal to the relative reliability threshold to determine that a reliability condition exists, and overriding, in response to the determination that the reliability condition exists, the present attenuation level set by the gain controller with an override attenuation level based on the present attenuation level.

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. A power amplifier may include a phase distortion compensation circuit. The phase distortion compensation circuit may include one or more n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors configured to receive a bias voltage. The bias voltage may be set to provide the proper amount of phase distortion compensation.

A serial signal detector and a differential signal detection method are provided. The serial signal detector includes a voltage comparison module and a hybrid logic filter. The voltage comparison module receives a differential signal, including a first shifted signal and a second shifted signal. The voltage comparison module includes a first comparator and a second comparator. Based on the first shifted signal, the second shifted signal, and a voltage threshold, the first and the second comparators respectively generate a first and a second comparison signals. The hybrid logic filter includes a controllable logic gate and a capacitor. The controllable logic gate performs a logic operation related to the first and the second comparison signals and generates a filtered and converted pulse accordingly. The controllable logic gate and the capacitor jointly perform a preliminary filtering operation to the filtered and converted pulse while the logic operation is being performed.

A network communication device includes a first output port, a second output port, and a converting circuit. The first output port may be in communication with an input port and may be configured to receive a first reduced-power version of the signal received at an input port. The converting circuit may be configured to receive a second reduced-power version of the signal, down-convert a high-frequency portion thereof, and produce a down-converted signal. The first and the second reduced-power versions of the signals are in the same frequency band. The second output port receives at least a portion of the down-converted signal such that the high frequency portion of the second reduced power version of the signal is attenuated before the signal is transmitted to a subscriber device.

Example signal processing methods and apparatus are described. The signal processing apparatus includes a first power amplifier, a second power amplifier, a first filter, a second filter, and a combiner. The first filter filters a second signal obtained by the first power amplifier to obtain a first sub-signal belonging to a first frequency band and a second sub-signal belonging to a second frequency band. The second filter filters a fourth signal obtained by the second power amplifier to obtain n sub-signals including at least a third sub-signal belonging to a third frequency band. The combiner combines the first sub-signal and i sub-signals in the n sub-signals based on a preset condition to obtain a first combined signal. The communication module sends the first combined signal by using a first port, and sends the second sub-signal by using a second port.

A wireless communication device includes a transmission radio frequency (RF) chain configured to transmit a radio signal, and processing circuitry configured to cause the wireless communication device to detect that the transmission RF chain has transited from an inactive state to a first active state, determine whether to detect an updated value of a phase of a self-interference signal in response to detecting that the transmission RF chain has transited from the inactive state to the first active state, and modify a weight vector of an adaptive filter corresponding to the self-interference signal based on the updated value of the phase or a previous value of the phase.

A wireless communication device can include a transmitter subsystem configured to transmit a transmit signal that, once propagated from the wireless communication device, may be reflected back and received by a receiver subsystem as interference. The wireless communication device can include a self-interference cancellation subsystem configured to generate a cancellation signal to mix with received signals to mitigate self-interference effects. A performance floor for the self-interference cancellation subsystem may be determined based on a phase noise profile of an oscillator of either or both the transmitter subsystem or the receiver subsystem. The performance floor metric can be thereafter used to inform an operation or operational setting of the wireless communication device.

Filter devices are provided herein. In some embodiments, a filter device includes resonators and a cover that is attached by adhesive tape to a housing that includes the resonators. In some embodiments, the filter device includes a tuning cover that overlaps the resonators and has cleaning holes therein. Moreover, in some embodiments, the filter device includes a wall inside the housing between a first of the resonators and a second of the resonators, and an average thickness of the wall is 3.0 millimeters or thinner. Related methods of manufacturing filter devices are also provided.

A radio frequency module includes: a module substrate; a first circuit component disposed on a first principal surface of the module substrate; and a second circuit component stacked on the first circuit component. Here, one of the first circuit component and the second circuit component includes a reception filter, the other of the first circuit component and the second circuit component includes a switch connected between an antenna connection terminal and the reception filter, and the second circuit component is connected to the first circuit component via a via electrode in the first circuit component or a side wiring on a side surface of the first circuit component.

The present disclosure discloses a startup circuit device, a filter and a receiver. The startup circuit device is applicable to the filter that includes a fully-differential operational amplifier and a common-mode feedback circuit device connected in sequence. Both the first startup input terminal and the first startup output terminal are connected to a first amplification input terminal of the fully-differential operational amplifier, and both the second startup input terminal and the second startup output terminal are connected to a second amplification input terminal of the fully-differential operational amplifier. The startup circuit device is configured to adjust a received input voltage to a target voltage during startup of the fully-differential operational amplifier, and output the target voltage to the fully-differential operational amplifier, such that the fully-differential operational amplifier operates at the target voltage, and stability of the fully-differential operational amplifier during the startup can be improved effectively.