Abstract:
In a self injection locked voltage controlled oscillator arrangement (1), a pair of coupled first and second voltage controlled oscillator devices (21,22) are arranged on a chip (2), an amplifier device (23) is arranged on the same of the refection type chip (2), and an off-chip delay line (10) is arranged with one terminal connected to an output terminal of the coupled first and second voltage controlled oscillator devices (821,22), and on terminal adapted to reflect a signal from the output terminal, the amplifier device (23) being arranged to amplify an injection signal from said output terminal and to supply the amplified injection signal to one of said first and second voltage controlled oscillation devices (21,22) to provide a VCO arrangement (1) that exhibits low phase noise and a small size.
Abstract:
A six-port circuit (100) with two input ports and four output ports, comprising a balun (110) for converting signals at one input port into first (112) and second (113) balanced signals, and a filter (105), with first and second input ports and four output ports as the four output ports of the circuit. The six-port circuit also comprises a splitter (120) for splitting second input signals at the other input port into first (121) and second (122) parts. The input ports (V' ιn1 , V' ιn2 ) of the filter (105) are connected so that one of the balanced signals (112) and one of the parts (121) of the second input signals are connected to one of the filter's input ports (V' in1 ), and the other of the balanced signals (113) and the other (122) of the parts of the second input signals are connected to the other of the filter's input ports (V' ιn2 ).
Abstract:
A frequency tunable signal source (100) with first (105) and a second (115, 315) oscillators, each of which outputs a signal at a fundamental frequency (f 1 , f 2 ) and at least one signal at a harmonic frequency (f 1 ', f 2 ') and a mixer (120) with first (121 ) and second (122) input ports and an output port (124), and a control unit (110) which controls switches (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ), by means of which two of said signals (f 1 , f 2 , f 1 ', f 2 ') are switchably connected to the first input port. The other two signals are switchably to the other input port, with one switch (S 1 , S 2 , S 3 , S 4 ) for each signal (f 1 , f 2 , f 1 ', f 2 '). There is also comprised a third oscillator (125), with an output signal connected to a third input port (123) of the mixer (120). At least one of the oscillators (105, 115, 315, 125) is a VCO, a Voltage Controlled Oscillator.
Abstract:
A phase detector (100, 400, 800) comprising a balun (150) and input ports (116) at each of the balun's balanced ports. The phase detector (100, 400, 800) has four devices (105, 115, 110, 155) for measuring a signal's amplitude: - a first device (105) at a first input port (116), - a second device (115) at a second input port (117), - a third device (110) between the input ports (116, 117), connected to the ports via a passive component (120, 125; 120', 125'; 120", 125"), - a fourth device (155) at the unbalanced port of the balun (150), The difference between the amplitude values of the third (110) and fourth (155) devices indicate the phase difference and the difference between the amplitude values measured by the first (110) and second (115) devices indicates the phase difference in the region of 0-2π.
Abstract:
In a Hartley voltage controlled oscillator ( VCO ) circuit comprising two inductors ( L d , L g ), a transistor ( Q1 ) and a varactor (C), the two inductors ( L d , L g ) are arranged as a coupled inductor pair to enable positive mutual inductance ( M ) between them and reduce the size of the VCO.
Abstract:
A phase locked loop (200, 700, 800) with a phase detector (210, 710, 730) whose output signal varies between maximum and minimum points with the phase difference between input signals. A VCO (220, 720, 740) receives the output signal from the phase detector (210, 710, 730) as tuning signal. A first part of the output signal of the VCO (220, 720, 740) is an input signal to the phase detector (210, 710, 730) and a second part is the output signal of the phase locked loop. There is a DC voltage shifter (215, 715, 735) between the phase detector and the VCO, which shifts the DC voltage level of the output signal from the phase detector (210, 710, 730) so that a point at a distance from a centre point between said maximum and minimum points is shifted to zero volts (DC). The phase detector (210, 710, 730) is tunable.
Abstract:
An oscillator circuit (100) comprising a VCO (105), the VCO comprising a resonator (115) coupled to a first amplifier (110), with an output signal from the resonator (115) being arranged to be the output signal from the VCO. The oscillator circuit (100) also comprises an amplifier (120) connected to receive the output signal from the VCO, with the output signal of the amplifier (120) being arranged to be the output signal from the oscillator circuit. In the oscillator circuit (100), the second amplifier is arranged to provide the VCO with a feedback signal which is in phase with the phase of the output signal from the VCO, and the second amplifier (120) is arranged to have an amplifier gain as a function of frequency which is such that the amplitude of the output signal from the oscillator circuit (100) is constant over an operational frequency range of the oscillator circuit.
Abstract:
A circuit (300) with inputs (365, 370) for first (LO) and second (IF) unbalanced signals at respective first and second frequencies, also comprising a mixer (303) for the first and second input signals to produce a third signal (RF) at a third frequency at an output port (315). The mixer (303) comprises first (330) and second (335) transistors which are cross-coupled to each other. Output terminals of the transistors are connected to the output port (315), and the mixer (300) also comprises a first impedance (350) connected to ground. The mixer (303), by means of the transistors (330, 335) and the first impedance (350) is an active balun for the first input signal (IF), and the input port (365) for the second signal (LO) comprises a second impedance (360), so that the first (350) and second impedances (360) together act as a passive balun for the second signal (LO).
Abstract:
A voltage controlled oscillator, a VCO (100, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700) comprising a resonator (105, 305, 605, 706) connected to an amplifier (110, 310, 610, 710) so that signals from the resonator can pass through the amplifier and be returned to the resonator. The VCO also comprises a tuning circuit (115, 315, 615, 715) for tuneably altering the amplitude of a signal which is input to the tuning circuit. The tuning circuit is connected to a first point (A) in the VCO for accessing a signal and to a second point (B) in the VCO for re-injecting said signal altered in amplitude. The accessed and reinjected signal is given a phase shift which is greater or smaller than the phase shift of a signal which is returned to the resonator after having passed through the amplifier.
Abstract:
In a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) circuit comprising two transistors (Q1, Q2), the first terminals (Q11; Q21) of each said two transistors (Q1, Q2) are coupled together and to a supply voltage (Vb), two interconnected resonator units (R1, R2), and each of said two resonator units (R1, R2) couples a respective second terminal (Q12; Q22) of said two transistors to third terminals (Q13; Q23) of both said transistors (Q1, Q2).