Polar Transmitter Suitable for Monolithic Integration in SoCs

A frequency generation circuit, comprising:

• an oscillator circuit configured to generate an oscillator signal having an oscillator frequency;
• one or more frequency dividers configured to divide the oscillator signal to selectively generate one or more reduced frequency signals therefrom;
• and
• a mixer configured to combine an amplitude modulated signal, based upon the one or more reduced frequency signals, with a phase modulated carrier signal to generate an output signal having a frequency different than one or more frequencies of other signals within a plurality of transmission signal bands.

A method for generating a transmission signal, comprising:

• generating a DCO signal having a DCO frequency;
• selectively dividing the DCO signal into one or more reduced frequency signals;
• sampling a digital amplitude modulated signal at a sampling frequency based upon the one of the reduced frequency signals to generate an analog amplitude modulated signal;
• and
• mixing the analog amplitude modulated signal with a phase modulated carrier signal to generate an output signal having a frequency different than one or more frequencies of other signals within a plurality of signal bands.