Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus of an input resistance of a passive mixer to broaden the input matching bandwidth of a common source/gate LNA
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Application No.: US15884966Application Date: 2018-01-31
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Publication No.: US10461703B2Publication Date: 2019-10-29
- Inventor: Zaw Soe
- Applicant: Tensorcom, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Culver City
- Assignee: NantWorks, LLC
- Current Assignee: NantWorks, LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Culver City
- Agency: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04B1/16
- IPC: H04B1/16 ; H03F3/19 ; H03F1/22 ; H03F1/42 ; H03F3/387 ; H03F3/193 ; H03D7/12 ; H03D7/14 ; H03D7/16 ; H03F3/45 ; H04L27/38

Abstract:
A common-source Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) comprises a first spiral inductor coupled to a source of a first transistor, a second spiral inductor coupled to a drain of a second transistor, and a third inductor connecting the first transistor to the second transistor. The third inductor is configurable to enable a first capacitance to be coupled in parallel to form a bandpass filter. The first spiral inductor is configurable to enable a second capacitance to be coupled in parallel to form a resonant circuit. A variation of the LNA further includes a drain of a third transistor coupled to a gate of a fourth transistor with a first width, a source of the third transistor coupled to the resonant circuit, and an oscillator clock configured to operate at a first frequency that enables the third transistor, wherein the third transistor presents a first impedance to the resonant circuit, causing the resonant circuit to have a first bandwidth.
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