Invention Application
- Patent Title: DIGITAL ARCHITECTURE FOR RADIO-FREQUENCY APPARATUS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS
- Patent Title (中): 无线电频率设备数码建筑及相关方法
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Application No.: US12715361Application Date: 2010-03-01
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Publication No.: US20100166124A1Publication Date: 2010-07-01
- Inventor: Richard T. Behrens , Tod Paulus , Mark S. Spurbeck , Vishnu S. Srinivasan , Donald A. Kerth , Jeffrey W. Scott , G. Tyson Tuttle , G. Diwakar Vishakhadatta
- Applicant: Richard T. Behrens , Tod Paulus , Mark S. Spurbeck , Vishnu S. Srinivasan , Donald A. Kerth , Jeffrey W. Scott , G. Tyson Tuttle , G. Diwakar Vishakhadatta
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Main IPC: H04L27/00
- IPC: H04L27/00 ; H04B1/10

Abstract:
A radio-frequency (RF) receiver includes a receiver analog circuitry and a receiver digital circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry resides within a first integrated circuit and the receiver digital circuitry resides within a second integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit couples to the first integrated circuit via a one-bit digital interface. The receiver analog circuitry receives an RF signal and processes the received RF signal to generate a digital signal. The receiver analog circuitry provides the digital signal to the receiver digital circuitry. The receiver digital circuitry includes a digital down-converter circuitry that mixes the digital signal with an intermediate frequency (IF) local oscillator (LO) signal to generate a digital down-converted signal. The receiver digital circuitry also includes a digital filter circuitry that filters the digital down-converted signal to generate a filtered digital signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US08224259B2 Digital architecture for radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods Public/Granted day:2012-07-17
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