Integrated circuit layout for a television tuner

Abstract

An integrated circuit including one or more radio frequency (RF) filters to receive an RF signal and to generate a filtered RF signal and a down conversion stage coupled to the RF filters, the down conversion stage further including a local oscillator circuit and an intermediate frequency (IF) filter, the local oscillator circuit being electrically shielded from the IF filter. Each RF filter is a discrete inductive-capacitive (LC) filter, further including a plurality of discrete inductive banks and capacitive banks. The integrated circuit further includes a plurality of input pads to receive the RF signal, each capacitive bank of the RF filter being located adjacently to respective input pads within the circuit, and further includes a plurality of capacitor devices coupled in parallel, with capacitor devices having a lower capacitance value being positioned adjacently to said respective input pads and remaining capacitor devices being positioned in increased order of their capacitance value away from said respective input pads.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.