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US 8,045,951 B2Granted
Dual-LO mixer and radio
AssigneeRealtek Semiconductor Corp.
InventorChia-Liang Lin
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Abstract
A dual-LO mixer is disclosed. The dual-LO mixer receives an input signal, a first reference signal of a first reference frequency, and a second reference signal of a second reference frequency, and performs a frequency translation to convert the input signal into an output signal, wherein the frequency difference between the input signal and the output signal is a sum or a difference of the first reference frequency and the second reference frequency.
Claims3
A receiver comprising:
- a first mixer for receiving a first reference signal of a first reference frequency and a second reference signal of a second reference frequency and converting an input RF (radio frequency) signal into a first conversion signal using the first reference signal of the first reference frequency and the second reference signal of the second reference frequency, wherein the converting is performed by a switch circuit including at least one switch that conditionally connects two circuit nodes depending on an exclusive NOR operation on the first reference signal and the second reference signal;
- a second mixer for receiving a third reference signal of the first reference frequency and a fourth reference signal of the second reference frequency and converting the input RF signal into a second conversion signal using the third reference signal of the first reference frequency and the fourth reference signal of the second reference frequency, wherein the converting is performed by a switch circuit including at least one switch that conditionally connects two circuit nodes depending on an exclusive NOR operation on the third reference signal and the fourth reference signal;
- a third mixer for receiving the first reference signal of the first reference frequency and the fourth reference signal of the second reference frequency and converting the input RF signal into a third conversion signal using the first reference signal of the first reference frequency and the fourth reference signal of the second reference frequency, wherein the converting is performed by a switch circuit including at least one switch that conditionally connects two circuit nodes depending on an exclusive NOR operation on the first reference signal and the fourth reference signal;
- a fourth mixer for receiving the third reference signal of the first reference frequency and the second reference signal of the second reference frequency and converting the input RF signal into a fourth conversion signal using the third reference signal of the first reference frequency and the second reference signal of the second reference frequency, wherein the converting is performed by a switch circuit including at least one switch that conditionally connects two circuit nodes depending on an exclusive NOR operation on the third reference signal and the second reference signal;
- a first summing circuit for summing by addition the first and the second conversion signals to generate a first output signal;
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- a second summing circuit for summing by addition the third and the fourth conversion signals to generate a second output signal.
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