Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital architecture for radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods
- Patent Title (中): 射频设备数字架构及相关方法
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Application No.: US11287995Application Date: 2005-11-28
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Publication No.: US07702362B2Publication Date: 2010-04-20
- 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
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee: Silicon Laboratories Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agency: Law Offices of Maximilian R. Peterson
- Main IPC: H04B1/38
- IPC: H04B1/38 ; H04M1/00

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
- US20060141973A1 Digital architecture for radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods Public/Granted day:2006-06-29
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