Patent classifications
H03D7/14
Systems and methods for detecting local oscillator leakage and image tone in I/Q mixer based transceivers
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.
UP/DOWN FREQUENCY CONVERTER WITH MILLIMETER-WAVE LOW-PHASE-NOISE LOCAL OSCILLATOR
An electronic device for converting a frequency with a local oscillator (LO) for generating an LO signal is provided. The electronic device may include an intermediate frequency (IF) port configured to input or output a signal in a first frequency band, a radio frequency (RF) port configured to input or output a signal in a second frequency band, a passive mixer configured to convert the signal in the first frequency band into the signal in the second frequency band or convert the signal in the second frequency band into the signal in the first frequency band, an LO configured to generate an LO signal in one of a plurality of frequency bands and provide the LO signal to the passive mixer, and a bi-directional amplifier including a gain equalizer configured to control gain flatness of a signal input to or output from the IF port.
Programmable driver for frequency mixer
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.
POWER FACTOR CORRECTION CIRCUIT, MULTIPLIER AND VOLTAGE FEED-FORWARD CIRCUIT
A voltage feed-forward circuit, a multiplier using the voltage feed-forward circuit, and a power factor correction circuit using the multiplier. The voltage feed-forward circuit is used to maintain and output a peak voltage (Vff) of an input voltage (Vin), and includes first switch element (S1), a logic control unit (U1), a second switch element (S2), a first capacitor (C1), a third switch element (S3) and a second capacitor (C2). The first control signal (Φ1) and the second control signal (Φ2) begin to be provided at the same time, and the first control signal (Φ1) stops being provided when a voltage of the second end of the first capacitor (C1) is greater than the peak voltage (Vff) of the input voltage (Vin).
Window Function Processing Module
The present application provides a window function processing module including an integrating circuit, configured to receive an integrating input signal, the integrating circuit comprising an operational amplifier; an integrating capacitor, coupled to an output terminal and a first input terminal of the operational amplifier; and an adjustable impedance module, coupled between the first input terminal of the operational amplifier and an integrating input terminal of the integrating circuit, wherein the adjustable impedance module is controlled by at least one control signal to adjust an impedance value of the adjustable impedance module; and a control unit, coupled to the integrating circuit, configured to generate the at least one control signal according to a window function, to adjust the integration gain of the integrating circuit, such that the integrating output signal is related to an operation result of the integrating input signal and the window function.
Mixing circuit with high harmonic suppression ratio
The present disclosure provides a mixing circuit with high harmonic suppression ratio, including: a multi-phase generation module, which receives a first input signal and generates eight first square wave signals with a phase difference of 45°; a quadrature phase generation module, which receives a second input signal and generates four second square wave signals with a phase difference of 90°; a harmonic suppression module, connected with an output end of the quadrature phase generation module to filter out higher order harmonic components in the second square wave signals; and a mixing module, connected with output ends of the multi-phase generation module and the harmonic suppression module to mix output signals of the multi-phase generation module and the harmonic suppression module. The mixing circuit with high harmonic suppression ratio adds a harmonic suppression module on the basis of multi-phase mixing, thereby improving the harmonic suppression ratio of the output signal.
RADIO-FREQUENCY SWITCH HAVING REDISTRIBUTION LAYER INDUCTANCE
In some embodiments, a semiconductor chip device can include a semiconductor substrate having a switching circuit with a first node, and a plurality of layers configured to support the semiconductor substrate and to provide electrical connections for the switching circuit between a second node connectable to a location external to the semiconductor chip and the first node. The plurality of layers can include a redistribution layer, and a signal path can be implemented as a part of the redistribution layer. The signal path can have a first end electrically connected to the first node and a second end electrically connected to the second node, and be configured to provide a selected inductance.
CURRENT MODE SIGNAL PATH OF AN INTEGRATED RADIO FREQUENCY PULSE GENERATOR
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.
Down-conversion mixer
A down-conversion mixer includes a converting-and-mixing circuit and a load circuit. The converting-and-mixing circuit performs voltage to current conversion and mixing with a differential oscillatory voltage signal pair upon a differential input voltage signal pair to generate a differential mixed current signal pair. The load circuit includes two transistors each having a transconductance that varies according to a control voltage, two resistors each decreasing a threshold voltage of a respective one of the transistors, and a resistor-inductor circuit cooperating with the transistors to convert the differential mixed current signal pair into a differential mixed voltage signal pair.
CONFIGURABLE HARMONIC REJECTION MIXER (HRM)
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support reconfiguring degeneration components in a converged RF transceiver supporting carrier aggregation across sub-6 GHz frequency bands and mmWave frequency bands. In a first aspect, an apparatus includes an input port configured to receive a mixer input signal; a first mixer forming at least a portion of an HRM mixer and coupled to the input port; a first configurable degeneration component of a first processing path coupled between the input port and the first mixer; and a controller coupled to the first degeneration component, wherein the controller is configured to control a first aspect of a first degeneration component. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.