According to one embodiment, a transceiver includes: a radio transmitter including a power amplifier; a detector circuit including: a squaring circuit configured to receive an output of the power amplifier of the radio transmitter and configured to produce an output current; and a DC current absorber electrically connected to an output terminal of the squaring circuit.

A current mode end-to-end signal path includes, a digital to analog converter (DAC), operating in current mode and an upconverting mixer, operating in current mode and operatively coupled to the DAC, wherein analog inputs and analog outputs of the DAC and the upconverting mixer are represented as currents, and the DAC generates a baseband signal.

Disclosed is a frequency mixer. The frequency mixer includes a first matching circuit that generates a matched local oscillator (LO) signal based on an LO signal, a non-linear circuit that generates a non-linear LO signal based on the matched LO signal, a second matching circuit that generates a matched radio frequency (RF) signal based on an RF signal, a mixing circuit that generates a mixed signal based on a mixing of the non-linear LO signal and the matched RF signal, a third matching circuit that generates an intermediate frequency (IF) signal based on the mixed signal, wherein the non-linear circuit includes a non-linear transistor, a bias transistor, and an internal matching circuit connected in series.

According to one embodiment, a transceiver includes: a radio transmitter including a power amplifier; a detector circuit including: a squaring circuit configured to receive an output of the power amplifier of the radio transmitter and configured to produce an output current; and a DC current absorber electrically connected to an output terminal of the squaring circuit.

A processor may calibrate a first actuator electrically coupled to a transconductance stage of the frequency conversion circuit. The transconductance stage may be configured to receive a differential signal input. Calibrating a first actuator may adjust a first basis vector associated with a differential direct current (DC) output of the transconductance stage. A processor may calibrate a second actuator electrically coupled to receive the differential current output of the transconductance stage and electrically coupled to a set of commutating devices of the frequency conversion circuit. The commutating devices may be configured to receive differential LO inputs. Calibrating a second actuator may adjust a second basis vector associated with a differential impedance of the set of commutating devices. A processor may offset responsive to adjusting the first basis vector and the second basis vector, the first leakage basis vector and second leakage basis vector of the LO leakage signal.

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.

The present invention is to provide a mixing circuit, comprising: a first transistor; a second transistor; a third transistor; a first connection point connected to a gate terminal of the first transistor, a drain terminal of the second transistor and a source terminal of the third transistor; a second connection point connected to a source terminal of the first transistor and a gate terminal of the second transistor; and a third connection point connected to a drain terminal of the first transistor and a drain terminal of the third transistor.

A detector circuit includes: a squaring circuit configured to receive an output of a power amplifier of a radio transmitter and to produce an output current, the output of the power amplifier including: a desired tone; a local oscillator leakage tone; and an image tone, and the output current of the squaring circuit including: a direct current (DC) component including a function of the desired tone and an alternating current (AC) component; and a DC current absorber electrically connected to an output terminal of the squaring circuit, the DC current absorber being configured to filter out the DC component of the output current of the squaring circuit to produce a filtered output of the squaring circuit, the filtered output including the AC component including functions of the local oscillator leakage tone and the image tone.

Disclosed is a frequency mixer. The frequency mixer includes a first matching circuit that generates a matched local oscillator (LO) signal based on an LO signal, a non-linear circuit that generates a non-linear LO signal based on the matched LO signal, a second matching circuit that generates a matched radio frequency (RF) signal based on an RF signal, a mixing circuit that generates a mixed signal based on a mixing of the non-linear LO signal and the matched RF signal, a third matching circuit that generates an intermediate frequency (IF) signal based on the mixed signal, wherein the non-linear circuit includes a non-linear transistor, a bias transistor, and an internal matching circuit connected in series.

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.