摘要:
A single conversion tuner is provided for receiving digital terrestrial broadcast signals. The tuner comprises a single frequency changer comprising a mixer (4) and local oscillator (7) controlled by a PLL synthesiser (6). A non-alignable variable low pass filter (3) is provided between the tuner input and the mixer (4), which is of the image reject type. The bandwidth of the filter (3) is varied so as to track the local oscillator frequency to provide sufficient attenuation of the image channel without requiring any alignment during manufacture.
摘要:
A multiple tuner arrangement is formed on a single integrated circuit having a common radio frequency input terminal (10). The terminal (10) supplies a broadband input signal to a plurality of individual tuners (12, 13), which may be identical to each other in construction. The tuners (12, 13) operate simultaneously and independently of each other to convert a channel in the radio frequency input to the appropriate output intermediate frequency and supply this to the channel output terminal (26). Features such as a databus interface (28) and a common reference oscillator (29) for channel frequency synthesisers (19, 24) need not therefore be duplicated.
摘要:
A single conversion tuner is provided for receiving digital terrestrial broadcast signals. The tuner comprises a single frequency changer comprising a mixer (4) and local oscillator (7) controlled by a PLL synthesiser (6). A non-alignable variable low pass filter (3) is provided between the tuner input and the mixer (4), which is of the image reject type. The bandwidth of the filter (3) is varied so as to track the local oscillator frequency to provide sufficient attenuation of the image channel without requiring any alignment during manufacture.
摘要:
A radio frequency amplifier comprises a long tail pair of transistors 1, 2 provided with a tail current source 8, 9. The bases of the transistors 1 and 2 are driven by emitter followers comprising transistors 20 and 21 provided with collector load resistors 24 and 25. Feedback capacitors 26 and 27 ensure stability and feedback resistors 28, 29 bias the amplifier without degrading noise performance. The amplifier may be driven unbalanced while retaining good second harmonic distortion performance.
摘要:
A radio frequency amplifier comprises a long tail pair of transistors 1, 2 provided with a tail current source 8, 9. The bases of the transistors 1 and 2 are driven by emitter followers comprising transistors 20 and 21 provided with collector load resistors 24 and 25. Feedback capacitors 26 and 27 ensure stability and feedback resistors 28, 29 bias the amplifier without degrading noise performance. The amplifier may be driven unbalanced while retaining good second harmonic distortion performance.
摘要:
A circuit stage such as an input stage is provided for a radio frequency tuner having an input 1 which typically receives a broadband signal comprising many channels. The input stage comprises a low noise amplifier 2 in the form of a long tail pair of transistors 4 and 5 and a controllable tail current source 10, 11. A level detector 3 detects the signal level at the input of the amplifier 2 and controls the tail current source 10, 11 so as to increase the tail current as the signal amplitude rises above a threshold level and so as to keep the tail current fixed when the signal amplitude is below the threshold level.