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公开(公告)号：US20210135356A1
公开(公告)日：2021-05-06
申请号：US16673228
申请日：2019-11-04
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: Techniques are provided for decorrelation of intermodulation products in mixer circuits. A circuit implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes four switches. Each of the switches comprise a complementary pair of n-channel and p-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS/PMOS) field effect transistors (FETs). The NMOS/PMOS FETs include a source port, a drain port, and a gate port. The gate port is configured to receive an oscillator signal. The circuit also includes electrical conductors to couple the four switches into a double-balanced passive ring configuration to generate an output signal as a mix of an input signal and the oscillator signal. The output signal includes a third order intermodulation (IM3) product. The circuit further includes a voltage bias generator to generate a bias voltage to bias the input signal and the output signal. The magnitude and phase of the IM3 product are determined, at least in part, by the bias voltage.
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公开(公告)号：US12015388B2
公开(公告)日：2024-06-18
申请号：US17333163
申请日：2021-05-28
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: Techniques are provided for a broadband microwave/millimeter-wave balanced-to-unbalanced transformer (balun). A balun implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes a first impedance matching network configured to reduce insertion and return losses of a single-ended signal at a first port of the balun. The balun also includes a first planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first impedance matching network and configured to transform the single-ended signal into a differential signal. The balun further includes a second planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first bifilar coupled transmission line and configured to compensate for amplitude and phase imbalance induced on the differential signal by the first bifilar coupled transmission line. The balun further includes a second impedance matching network coupled to both planar bifilar coupled transmission lines and configured to reduce insertion and return losses of the differential signal at second and third ports of the balun.
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公开(公告)号：US20190334838A1
公开(公告)日：2019-10-31
申请号：US15963594
申请日：2018-04-26
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle , Joseph D. Cali , Lawrence J. Kushner
IPC: H04L12/931 , H04L12/861
Abstract: A signal routing circuit is disclosed which employs resistive combiners to reduce signal jitter. A signal routing circuit configured according to an embodiment comprises an input stage including a plurality of buffer circuits. Each of the buffer circuits is controlled by a selection signal to enable an input signal at an input port of the buffer circuit to generate an output signal at an output port of the buffer circuit. The signal routing circuit also includes a plurality of resistors to couple the output port of each of the buffer circuits of the input stage to a summing junction. The signal routing circuit further includes an output stage including an additional buffer circuit. The input port of the additional buffer circuit is coupled to the summing junction, and the output port of the additional buffer circuit is configured to provide the routed output signal based on the selection signals.
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公开(公告)号：US11139847B2
公开(公告)日：2021-10-05
申请号：US16738475
申请日：2020-01-09
Inventor： Mark E. Stuenkel , Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) filter includes a signal conditioning circuit and a bandstop filter. The signal conditioning circuit receives a broadband RF signal that includes both a jamming signal at a jamming frequency and a signal of interest and generates a plurality of clock signals. Each of the plurality of clock signals has a substantially same frequency as the jamming frequency, but a different phase shift. The bandstop filter receives the RF signal and the plurality of clock signals. The bandstop filter attenuates signals within a bandstop centered at the frequency of the plurality of clock signals. A self-tuning N-path filter is provided.
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公开(公告)号：US20210218429A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-15
申请号：US16738475
申请日：2020-01-09
Inventor： Mark E. Stuenkel , Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: A radio frequency (RF) filter includes a signal conditioning circuit and a bandstop filter. The signal conditioning circuit receives a broadband RF signal that includes both a jamming signal at a jamming frequency and a signal of interest and generates a plurality of clock signals. Each of the plurality of clock signals has a substantially same frequency as the jamming frequency, but a different phase shift. The bandstop filter receives the RF signal and the plurality of clock signals. The bandstop filter attenuates signals within a bandstop centered at the frequency of the plurality of clock signals. A self-tuning N-path filter is provided.
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公开(公告)号：US11158941B2
公开(公告)日：2021-10-26
申请号：US16673228
申请日：2019-11-04
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: Techniques are provided for decorrelation of intermodulation products in mixer circuits. A circuit implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes four switches. Each of the switches comprise a complementary pair of n-channel and p-channel metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS/PMOS) field effect transistors (FETs). The NMOS/PMOS FETs include a source port, a drain port, and a gate port. The gate port is configured to receive an oscillator signal. The circuit also includes electrical conductors to couple the four switches into a double-balanced passive ring configuration to generate an output signal as a mix of an input signal and the oscillator signal. The output signal includes a third order intermodulation (IM3) product. The circuit further includes a voltage bias generator to generate a bias voltage to bias the input signal and the output signal. The magnitude and phase of the IM3 product are determined, at least in part, by the bias voltage.
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公开(公告)号：US20210218382A1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-15
申请号：US16738441
申请日：2020-01-09
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for filtering a radio frequency (RF) signal using an N-path bandstop filter with an extended, spurious-free upper passband. In an embodiment, a bandstop filter includes a bank of three switched capacitors in series with the RF signal path through the filter, in contrast to 4- or 8-capacitor banks or other bandstop filters where N is a power of 2. In this 3-path example configuration, an undesirable spurious bandstop notch at the 3rd and 5th harmonics of the clock frequency are eliminated or substantially reduced, improving performance of the filter in the desired passbands while preserving the notch in the desired stopband at high RF signal frequencies. Another N-path bandstop filter embodiment includes a bridged T-coil circuit, which absorbs a shunt capacitance of the bandstop filter into the bridged T-coil circuit.
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公开(公告)号：US11057067B1
公开(公告)日：2021-07-06
申请号：US16846824
申请日：2020-04-13
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle , Robert W. Sepanek , Mark E. Stuenkel
Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for self-interference signal cancellation. A hybrid self-interference cancellation (SIC) circuit is configured to be operatively coupled to a transmitter and a receiver, and includes a tunable time domain filter in series with a tunable frequency domain filter. The tunable time domain filter is configured to generate a time-domain multipath cancellation signal based on a first radio signal transmitted by the transmitter at a first frequency while the receiver is receiving a second radio signal at a second frequency. The first and second frequencies can be the same or different and have similar or different power levels at the antennas. The tunable frequency domain filter, which is in series with the tunable time domain filter, is configured to generate a frequency-domain cancellation signal based on the first radio signal while the receiver is receiving the second radio signal.
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公开(公告)号：US20240332771A1
公开(公告)日：2024-10-03
申请号：US18130077
申请日：2023-04-03
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle , Gregory M. Flewelling , Kim Eilert
CPC classification number: H01P1/2084 , H01P1/2053 , H01P7/088
Abstract: An apparatus includes a lower plate, an upper plate above the lower plate, and a plurality of vias extending from the lower plate to the upper plate. The lower plate, the upper plate, and the plurality of vias include conductive material. A post including conductive material extends from the lower plate and towards the upper plate. An inner plate including conductive material is above and in contact with the post, where the post and the inner plate are separated from the upper plate by dielectric material. The plurality of vias are arranged to at least in part wrap around the post. A signal line extends between the lower and upper plates and at least in part wraps around the post, where the signal line extends through an opening between a first via and a second via of the plurality of vias. In an example, the apparatus is a resonator structure.
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公开(公告)号：US20220385261A1
公开(公告)日：2022-12-01
申请号：US17333163
申请日：2021-05-28
Inventor： Mark D. Hickle
Abstract: Techniques are provided for a broadband microwave/millimeter-wave balanced-to-unbalanced transformer (balun). A balun implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes a first impedance matching network configured to reduce insertion and return losses of a single-ended signal at a first port of the balun. The balun also includes a first planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first impedance matching network and configured to transform the single-ended signal into a differential signal. The balun further includes a second planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first bifilar coupled transmission line and configured to compensate for amplitude and phase imbalance induced on the differential signal by the first bifilar coupled transmission line. The balun further includes a second impedance matching network coupled to both planar bifilar coupled transmission lines and configured to reduce insertion and return losses of the differential signal at second and third ports of the balun.
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