Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Configurable mixer
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Application No.: US15272124Application Date: 2016-09-21
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Publication No.: US09948239B2Publication Date: 2018-04-17
- Inventor: Kiyong Choi , Yi Zeng , Hong Sun Kim , Sasha Vujcic , Chirag Dipak Patel , Aleksandar Miodrag Tasic , Timothy Donald Gathman , Wu-Hsin Chen , Klaas van Zalinge
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Paradice and Li LLP/Qualcomm
- Main IPC: G06G7/16
- IPC: G06G7/16 ; H03D7/14 ; H03F3/193 ; H03F3/21 ; H03F3/45 ; H03G3/30 ; H04W52/02

Abstract:
A method and apparatus are disclosed for a configurable mixer capable of operating in a linear, a legacy, and a low-power mode. In the linear mode, the configurable mixer is configured to operate as a double-balanced mixer to multiply a first differential signal by a second differential signal. In the legacy mode, the configurable mixer is configured to as a double-balanced mixer to multiply a differential signal by a single-ended signal. In the low-power mode, the configurable mixer is configured to operate as a single-balanced mixer to multiply a differential signal by a single-ended signal. The operating mode of the configurable mixer may be based, at least in part, on a mode control signal. In some embodiments, the configurable mixer may be included in an analog front end of a wireless communication device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180083574A1 CONFIGURABLE MIXER Public/Granted day:2018-03-22
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