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US 6,324,388 B1Granted
Image reject mixer circuit arrangements
AssigneeMitel Semiconductor Limited
InventorViatcheslav Igor Souetinov
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AssigneeMitel Semiconductor Limited
InventorViatcheslav Igor Souetinov
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An image reject mixer for a radio receiver comprises transconductors 21 and 22, mixer stages 30 and 23 and a phase shift and combiner circuit 26. The transconductors 21 and 22 provide differential output current signals to their respective mixer stage 30 and 23. Capacitors 28 and 29 are connected between equivalent outputs of the transconductors 21 and 22 respectively. The capacitors 28 and 29 have the effect of correlating the output noise of the transconductors 21 and 22 and correlating the noise generated by the mixer stage transistors which is leaked to the inputs of the mixer stages 30 and 23, the image frequency components of which noise are thereby cancelled by the operation of the mixer stages 30 and 23 and the phase shift and combiner circuit 26. The capacitors 28 and 29 also compensate the second harmonic of the local oscillators which leak through to the inputs of the mixer stages 30 and 23. Overall, gain, noise figure and linearity can all be improved without an increase in current consumption.
An image reject mixer circuit arrangement in which input signals are arranged to be fed into first and second parallel paths, associated with in-phase and quadrature local oscillator signals respectively, and subsequently combined comprising in each path a current signal source circuit arranged to provide from first and second outputs thereof differential current signals, dependent on the input signals, to a mixer stage characterised in having a capacitor connected between the first outputs of the current signal source circuits of the first and second paths.
An image reject mixer circuit arrangement comprising:
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