The disclosure relates to technology for shifting a frequency range of a signal. In one aspect, a circuit comprises a frequency mixer, a frequency synthesizer configured to generate an oscillator signal, a programmable driver, and a controller. The programmable driver is configured to receive the oscillator signal from the frequency synthesizer and to provide the oscillator signal to the oscillator input of the frequency mixer. The programmable driver is configured to have a variable drive strength. The controller is configured to control the drive strength of the programmable driver based on a frequency of the oscillator signal to adjust a rise time and a fall time of the oscillator signal at the oscillator input of the frequency mixer.

A very low intermediate frequency receiver and methods for controlling the same. One method includes providing, using a local oscillator, a first intermediate frequency, detecting, using an interferer detector, an adjacent or alternate channel interference signal and an image of the adjacent or adjacent channel interference signal causing interference with a desired signal, and determining, using an electronic processor, whether the desired signal is an analog signal. In response to determining that the desired signal is an analog signal, the method includes controlling, using the electronic processor, the local oscillator to provide a second intermediate frequency. In response to determining that the desired signal is not an analog signal, the method includes determining, using the electronic processor, a switching condition based on the desired signal, and controlling, using the electronic processor, the local oscillator to provide the second intermediate frequency in response to determining the switching condition.

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may obtain, in a frequency range, device-specific data for use in determining at least one of a frequency or a power of a spurious signal. The wireless device may generate, based at least in part on the device-specific data, information that indicates the at least one of the frequency or the power of the spurious signal. Numerous other aspects are described.

The present disclosure generally relates to the field of receiver structures in radio communication systems and more specifically to passive mixers in the receiver structure and to a technique for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency. A passive mixer for converting a first signal having a first frequency into a second signal having a second frequency by using a third signal having a third frequency comprises a cancellation component 220 for generating a first cancellation signal for cancelling second order intermodulation components by superimposing the first signal weighted by a cancellation value on the third signal; and a mixing component 231 having a first terminal 232 for receiving the first signal, a second terminal 234 for outputting the second signal, and a third terminal 236 for receiving the first cancellation signal, wherein the mixing component 231 is adapted to provide the second signal as output at the second terminal 234 by mixing the first signal provided as input at the first terminal 232 and the first cancellation signal provided as input at the third terminal 236.

A switch circuit, a mixer, and an electronic device, where the switch circuit includes a first metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor, a second MOS transistor, a third MOS transistor, and a fourth MOS transistor, both a gate of the first MOS transistor and a gate of the fourth MOS transistor are connected to a first port, and both a gate of the second MOS transistor and a gate of the third MOS transistor are connected to a second port; and a lead between the gate of the first MOS transistor and the first port, a lead between the gate of the second MOS transistor and the second port, a lead between the gate of the third MOS transistor and the second port, and a lead between the gate of the fourth MOS transistor and the first port all have an equal length. In this way, linearity is relatively high.

A configurable passive mixer is described herein. According to one exemplary embodiment, the passive mixer comprises a clock generator, a controller, and a plurality of passive mixer cores connected in parallel. The clock generator comprises a local oscillator drive unit for each passive mixer core. The controller varies an effective transistor size of the passive mixer by separately configuring each of the passive mixer cores to enable/disable each passive mixer core. For example, the controller may selectively enable one or more of the passive mixer cores to vary the effective transistor width of the passive mixer. As the performance requirements and/or the operating communication standard change, the controller may re-configure each passive mixer core.

A user equipment (UE), receiver and method are generally described herein. The UE may include a mixer, a local oscillator (LO) and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The mixer may downconvert a differential radio frequency (RF) signal using LO signals and provide downconverted signals to the ADC. The mixer may provide decoupled lowpass filtering. The lowpass filter capacitors may retain charge when discharging is completed. For each differential signal, the mixer may have an input pullup resistor, first switches receiving the signal and driven by different LO signals, second switches receiving signals from the first switches such that connected pairs of switches may have driven by different LO signals, an ADC input resistor, charging capacitors each connected between first switches driven by the same LO signal, and grounding capacitors each connected to second switches associated with different RF signal outputs and driven by different LO signals.

The disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). An operation method of a device for upconversion in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving a first local oscillator (LO) signal, generating a second LO signal, based on the first LO signal and cross-coupled latches, receiving an input signal, generating an upconverted frequency, based on the second LO signal and the input signal, generating an output signal obtained by processing a harmonic component included in the upconverted frequency, and transmitting the generated output signal.

An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes a first low pass filter (LPF), a second LPF, a first analog-to-digital converter (ADC), a second ADC, a first discrete Fourier transform (DFT) unit, a second DFT unit, a second order intermodulation (IM2) tone amplitude measurement unit, and a calibration logic unit configured to simultaneously determine an in-phase mixer (I-mixer) digital-to-analog (DAC) code and a quadrature-phase mixer (Q-mixer) DAC code.

A mixer includes a first unit mixer, a second unit mixer, a third unit mixer, and a fourth unit mixer that have the same configuration and a first combiner, a second combiner, and a third combiner that have the same configuration. The first to the fourth unit mixers each include a differential RF signal terminal. Output of the first unit mixer and output of the second unit mixer are combined by the second combiner. Output of the third unit mixer and output of the fourth unit mixer are combined by the third combiner. Output of the second combiner and output of the third combiner are combined by the first combiner. The output of the third unit mixer is input to the third combiner with the polarity being determined.