A multi-band radio frequency front-end device, a multi-band receiver, and a multi-band transmitter, the multi-band radio frequency front-end device including a first radio frequency front-end circuit, where the first radio frequency front-end circuit works on a first band, a second radio frequency front-end circuit, where the second radio frequency front-end circuit works on a second band, a first input/output matching network, and a second input/output matching network, where routing of the first input/output matching network and routing of the second input/output matching network on a layout are annular and nested.

A radio frequency, RF, receiver circuit is configured to simultaneously monitor a two or more different RF frequencies. The RF receiver circuit uses a sub-sampler to sub-sample an RF signal that is at any of the monitored RF frequencies, and the sub-sampled signal is then demodulated and a digital code that was encoded in the RF signal is recovered. The RF receiver circuit may be particularly low power, in part owing to using the same sub-sampler for each of the two or more monitored RF frequencies, and not relying on superheterodyning. Furthermore, monitoring two or more different RF frequencies simultaneously means that signals received on the monitored RF frequencies may be acted on very quickly. These characteristics make the RF receiver circuit particularly suitable for use in low-power wake-up receivers, such as Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) wake-up receivers.

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 present disclosure relates to a circuit including an input terminal configured to receive a first signal at a first frequency; a demodulation chain connected to the input terminal and including a low-noise amplifier having an input coupled to the terminal; a controllable variable impedance connected between a first node and a node configured to receive a reference potential, the first node being connected to the input terminal and/or to the amplifier input; and a current source configured to deliver a current at the first frequency to the first node.

A mixer for mixing a radio frequency signal is described. The mixer includes a local oscillator input, a phase adjustment module, and at least one mixing channel. The local oscillator input is configured to receive a local oscillator signal. The phase adjustment module is configured to control a phase of the local oscillator signal in order to add a desired amount of delay to the local oscillator signal, thereby generating at least one adapted oscillator signal. The at least one adapted oscillator signal has a desired phase difference compared to the local oscillator signal. The at least one mixing channel includes at least one mixer unit having at least one signal input. The at least one mixing channel is configured to receive the at least one adapted oscillator signal. The at least one mixing channel further is configured to forward the adapted oscillator signal to the mixer unit. The at least one signal input is configured to receive an input signal. The at least one signal input further is configured to forward the input signal to the mixer unit. The mixer unit is configured to mix the at least one adapted oscillator signal with the input signal, thereby generating a mixer output signal.

A receiver circuit includes a mixer receiving an RF signal encoding an information signal. The mixer receives a number of multiphase oscillator signals and generates multiphase baseband signals. The receiver circuit also includes a variable gain circuit receives the multiphase baseband signals, generates a first output signal having a first distortion, and a second output signal having a second distortion. The variable gain circuit is configured to generate a reduced distortion output signal based on the first and second output signals.

A signal mixing circuit device includes a first mixer, a second mixer and a signal amplifying circuit serially connected to the first mixer; the first mixer includes an RF signal input terminal for receiving an RF signal, LO signal input terminals for sampling a first and second LO signals, a first mixed-signal output terminal for outputting a first mixed signal and a second mixed-signal output terminal for outputting a second mixed signal; the second mixer includes an input terminal connected to a capacitor, two mixed-signal output terminals respectively connected to the first and second mixed-signal output terminals of the first mixer, LO signal input terminals for inversely sampling the first and second LO signals. With the double-balance nature of the second mixer core, the noise at the LO signal input terminals of the first mixer can be cancelled. A receiver includes the signal mixing circuit device is also disclosed.

A multi-band radio frequency front-end device, a multi-band receiver, and a multi-band transmitter, the multi-band radio frequency front-end device including a first radio frequency front-end circuit, where the first radio frequency front-end circuit works on a first band, a second radio frequency front-end circuit, where the second radio frequency front-end circuit works on a second band, a first input/output matching network, and a second input/output matching network, where routing of the first input/output matching network and routing of the second input/output matching network on a layout are annular and nested.

A family of radio frequency (RF) filter circuits that use radio frequency linear mixers to controllably separate desired frequency spectrum from undesired frequency spectrum, and convert signals from one frequency to another, permitting inclusion in a closed- or open-loop control circuit that supports rapid dynamic manipulation of the filter circuit's center frequency and bandwidth.

Circuits for a receiver, comprising: M first mixers that each receive an input signal, that are each clocked by a different phase of a first common clock frequency, and that each provide an output, wherein M is a count of the first mixers; and M sets of N second mixers, wherein N is a count of the second mixers in each of the M sets, wherein each second mixer in each set of N second mixers receives as an input the output of a corresponding one of the M first mixers, wherein each of the N second mixers in each of the M sets are clocked by a different phase of a second common clock frequency, and wherein each of the second mixers has an output.