摘要:
A mixer circuit (200, 300, 800, 900) for mixing a first input signal at a first frequency with a second input signal at a second frequency to an output signal at a third frequency. The mixer circuit (200, 300, 800, 900) comprises a mixing stage (205, 805) with differential input ports (206, 207; 820, 821) for the first input signal and an input port (211, 911) for the second input signal and differential output ports for the output signal, which also serve as output ports for the mixer circuit. The mixer circuit (200, 300, 800, 900) comprises a nonlinear digital to analogue converter (210, 810) which has an input port (211) which is the input port for the second input signal and an output port (212) which is connected to the input port of the mixing stage, and the digital to analogue converter has a nonlinear transfer function.
摘要:
A low noise mixer comprises a first mixer core configured to receive an input signal, and a first local oscillator signal, wherein the first local oscillator signal is at a frequency that is equal to the frequency of the RF output signal, the first mixer core configured to switch the input signal to at least one secondary mixer core at a frequency that coincides with the frequency of the first local oscillator signal, the at least one secondary mixer core configured to receive the switched input signal and a second local oscillator signal, where the second local oscillator signal is at a frequency that is normally twice the frequency of the RF output signal, and wherein switching the input signal at the frequency of the first local oscillator signal substantially eliminates flicker noise associated with the up-conversion process.
摘要:
A Gilbert mixer (200) comprising four switching transistors (Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6), two intermediate frequency transistors (Q1, Q2), and one or more DC decoupling components (202). The one or more DC decoupling components (202) are coupled between the switching transistors (Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6) and the intermediate frequency transistors (Q1, Q2) in order to DC decouple the switching transistors (Q3, Q4, Q5, Q6) from the intermediate frequency transistors (Q1, Q2).
摘要:
A receiver arrangement includes a single ended multiband feedback amplifier, at least one single ended input, differential output mixer arrangement including a main mixer and a trim mixer, and a mixer feedback loop circuit configured to receive differential output signals generated by the mixer arrangement. The mixer feedback loop circuit generates a feedback signal based on the received differential output signals and provides the feedback signal to the mixer arrangement to minimize DC-offset and second order intermodulation products. The single ended multiband feedback amplifier may include an input stage and a programmable resonance tank circuit connected to the input stage for suppressing downconverted noise from harmonics of the LO-frequency, and a configurable feedback net that shapes the frequency response of a feedback loop including the feedback net based on a band operation of the single ended multiband feedback amplifier.