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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8179185 | Sampling mixer, filter device, and radio device A sampling mixer includes TAs (transconductance amplifiers), an in-phase mixer section connected to the TA and the TA, an opposite-phase mixer section connected in parallel with the in-phase mixer section, and a signal generator for generating a control signal for t... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8138817 | Passive harmonic-rejection mixer An electronic device comprising a passive harmonic-rejection mixer. The passive harmonic rejection mixer has an input connected to several sub-mixer stages, and the sub-mixer stages are connected to a summing module for generating the output. Each sub-mixing stage c... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8072255 | Quadrature radio frequency mixer with low noise and low conversion loss In one embodiment of the invention, a method for convolution of signals is disclosed including generating four phased half duty cycle clocks each being out of phase by a multiple of ninety degrees from the others; coupling the four phased half duty cycle clocks into... | 12/06/2011 |
| 8040173 | Reference signal generator circuit with filter-less quadrature mixers for wide-band applications A first mixer circuit mixes a first center frequency signal with a first local oscillation signal to generate a second mixed signal, and mixes the first center frequency signal with a second local oscillation signal to generate a first mixed signal, and a second mix... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8004342 | Mixer with shorting switch A double-balanced mixer is provided having a shorting switch connecting the signal inputs to the mixer core. A timer circuit provides pulses to close the switch, thereby shorting those inputs at times when the switches of the mixer core are switching. This is done b... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7982527 | Reconfigurable mixer with gain control A frequency mixer or modulator circuit that is reconfigurable through electronic programming among active and passive operation, and/or harmonic and sub-harmonic operation, and/or up-conversion and down-conversion, and/or no-overlap, off-overlap, and on-overlap mixi... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7973586 | Sampling mixer, filter device, and radio device A sampling mixer includes TAs (transconductance amplifiers), an in-phase mixer section connected to the TA and the TA, an opposite-phase mixer section connected in parallel with the in-phase mixer section, and a signal generator for generating a control signal for t... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7956666 | Mixer capable of improving signal quality A mixer includes a transduction circuit, a first and a second switch circuit, and a first and a second load circuit. The transconductor circuit is for generating a differential current signal according to a differential voltage signal. The first switch circuit and t... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7852135 | Circuit arrangement for signal mixing A circuit arrangement for signal mixing. One embodiment provides a circuit arrangement for mixing an input signal with at least one carrier signal. The circuit arrangement includes a current source and a current sink. The current source and the current sink have a m... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7830198 | Multi-input mixer, mixer device, and mixing method A mixer device includes a differential circuit, a transconductance circuit, and a selecting circuit. The differential circuit receives a differential input signal and generates a differential output signal. The transconductance circuit is coupled to the differential... | 11/09/2010 |
| 7795948 | Super-symmetric multiplier A circuit includes a multi-tanh cell having a common-emitter node to receive a bias current, and an extra transistor coupled to the common-emitter node to dynamically divert a portion of the bias current from the multi-tanh cell. The circuit may be arranged as a mul... | 09/14/2010 |
| 7772913 | Mixer circuit, communication device, and electronic equipment A mixer circuit includes a grounded-gate amplifier disposed between an input node and a first node, and first through nth (n denotes an integer equal to or greater than 1) series transistor rows disposed between the first node and a second node, each of the first th... | 08/10/2010 |
| 7737760 | Mixer having controllable load with reduced equivalent load value during switching transients of local oscillating signal A mixer has a controllable load, a signal mixing module, and a controller. The controllable load is controlled by a control signal to change an equivalent load value thereof. The signal mixing module has an output port coupled to the controllable load and an input p... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7671658 | Mixer having frequency selection function A mixer which has an enhanced frequency selection characteristic and generates no pass loss is realized without using an operation control signal having a frequency higher than a sampling frequency. Provided are a time control section 102 for supplying contro... | 03/02/2010 |
| 7633328 | Mixer stage and method for mixing two signals having different frequencies A mixer stage is provided that includes an oscillator, a first input, a second input, a first output, a second output, a set of four controllable amplifier elements, and a first current source. The mixer stage further includes at least one second current source in a... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7605634 | Subtractor circuit and operational amplifier Disclosed herein is a subtractor circuit for outputting an output voltage as a difference between a first input voltage and a second input voltage. The subtractor circuit may include a first semiconductor element, a second semiconductor element, a third semiconducto... | 10/20/2009 |
| 7521981 | Mixer with carrier leakage calibration A mixer circuit. The mixer circuit comprises a double-balanced mixer and a carrier-leakage calibration cell. The double-balanced mixer has first and second input pairs whereby the first input pair receives the first differential input signal. The carrier-leakage cal... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7446590 | Low noise mixer with reduced distortion A low noise RF mixer is described. The mixer of the present invention has excellent linearity due to reduction of second-order distortion. The mixer includes an inputting stage, a switching stage and a load stage. The inputting stage includes a switching pair and a ... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7417486 | Voltage-current conversion circuit, amplifier, mixer circuit, and mobile appliance using the circuit A cross-coupled low-distortion voltage-current conversion circuit has transistors T1 to T6. At least one of the transistors has parallel connections of two or more transistors. By arbitrarily setting the number of parallel connections of the transistor... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7356318 | Quadrature subharmonic mixer A quadrature subharmonic mixer comprises a polyphase filter configured to generate quadrature components of a local oscillator (LO) reference signal, a summing and scaling element configured to create additional components of the LO reference signal, and a plurality... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7355466 | Passive mixer with direct current bias Mixer circuits with direct-current bias are disclosed. An example embodiment of such a mixer includes a first differential transistor pair and a second differential transistor pair. The example mixer also includes first and second local oscillator signal terminals a... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7342432 | Mixer circuit having improved linearity and noise figure A mixer circuit having improved linearity and noise figure is disclosed. The mixer circuit comprises an amplification unit having an input terminal and an output terminal, the amplification unit amplifying a signal applied to the input terminal to output it to the o... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7343015 | Method and apparatus for high fidelity wireless stereophonic transmission utilizing dual frequency carriers A method and system is disclosed for transmitting two related channels of signals through the air. A first channel of signals is modulated with a first carrier frequency, and a second channel of signals is modulated with a second carrier frequency. The modulated fir... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7340233 | Integrated circuit and methods for third sub harmonic up conversion and down conversion of signals An integrated circuit may include a receiver and/or a transmitter that performs third order sub-harmonic conversion. The integrated circuit may include a Gilbert cell active mixer with three or more serially-connected transistors in each of the mixer's four branches... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7329584 | Method for manufacturing bipolar transistor A method for manufacturing a bipolar transistor includes: forming a device isolation layer on a semiconductor substrate having first and second well regions of a first conductivity therein; implanting ions of a second conductivity in the first well to form a third w... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7324796 | Low temperature co-fired ceramic sub-harmonic mixer A sub harmonic mixer has improved electrical performance in a small package size. The mixer has a low temperature co-fired ceramic substrate. Coupled lines are located within the substrate and connected to an LO port, an RF port and an intermediate frequency port. T... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324791 | Low-noise differential bias circuit and differential signal processing apparatus A low-noise differential bias circuit is provided which obtains excellent noise characteristics while ensuring excellent distortion characteristics. A collector of a transistor Q11 is connected to a voltage supply point (Vcc) via a resistor R15. A base... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321751 | Method and apparatus for improving dynamic range in a communication system An apparatus for improving dynamic range includes a frequency down-conversion module that receives an input signal and a bias circuit. The bias circuit includes a first resistor and a second resistor. The first resister has a first terminal coupled to a bias point a... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7321253 | Multiplier A conventional multiplier which uses a MOS transistor has a subject that, in order to compensate for a variation of a bias voltage or the like, it is necessary to add a complicated correcting circuit to an outputting section or the like, and the circuit scale become... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7315200 | Gain control for delta sigma analog-to-digital converter Gain control for delta sigma analog-to-digital converter. A method is disclosed for driving the input of an integrator in a delta-sigma converter having an amplifier with a non-inverting input, an output and a positive input connected to a reference voltage and an i... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7313034 | Low supply voltage temperature compensated reference voltage generator and method A reference voltage generator uses a conventional forward junction voltage generating device and a conventional thermal generator to generate a thermal voltage. The forward junction voltage and the thermal voltages have respective thermal sensitivities that act oppo... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312643 | Differential current driver and data transmission method A differential current driver has a current source that supplies current selectively to two output terminals according to data to be transmitted. A comparison circuit compares the current output by the current source with a reference value and generates a control si... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7301514 | Electronic circuit, electronic device, electro-optical device, and electronic apparatus The invention provides an electronic circuit, an electronic device and an electronic apparatus, which are capable of forming a simple circuit. A first buffer circuit is formed of second, third and sixth transistors and a first capacitor. A second buffer circuit is f... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7298194 | Interpolation A steering current generator for a phase interpolator has a multiplicity of fine phase adjustment current sources, each of which is switchable to direct its current to one or other of two summing nodes. The current of each of those two summing nodes is supplemented ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295059 | System and method for common mode bias for high frequency buffers Methods and systems for reducing parasitic capacitance of a buffer for an electric circuit are disclosed herein. Aspects of the method may comprise coupling a gate of a first transistor to a first differential input of the buffer and coupling a gate of a second tran... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292083 | Comparator circuit with Schmitt trigger hysteresis character A circuit and a method are provided to produce a novel comparator with Schmitt trigger hysteresis character. The circuit includes a current source which controls the magnitude of current flow through this comparator circuit. It has a first logic device which is turn... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7286811 | Local oscillator apparatus and method A direct conversion satellite tuner is fully integrated on a common substrate. The integrated tuner receives an RF signal having a plurality of channels and down-converts a selected channel directly to baseband for further processing. The integrated tuner includes o... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7282982 | Mixer-system with gain-blocks and switches Mixer-systems comprising gain-blocks (1-4) and switches (5-8) have a flexibility depending upon their configuration (insight) and are made more flexible (basic idea) by supplying data input signals to the gain-blocks (1-4) a... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7282983 | Secure and fast calculating unit The calculating unit includes a dual rail input stage, a switching stage for a bit to be calculated and an output stage for an output bit, wherein the output stage provides a dual rail output. The switching stage is not implemented in dual rail technology but accord... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280815 | Process for control of standby currents in a direct conversion type of frequency transposition device, and corresponding device A direct conversion type of frequency transposition device includes a transconductor block receiving the input signal and a current switching block connected to the output from the device. At least the common mode (Iif1+Iif2) is servocontrolled... | 10/09/2007 |
