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AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsLi Liu, Prasad Srinivasa Siva Gudem, Frederic Bossu, Chiewcharn Narathong
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A method and apparatus for providing an oscillating signal within a transmitter/receiver circuit is described. The transmitter/receiver circuit may include an oscillator that generates an oscillating signal that may be provided to a low power, low gain mixer of the transmitter/receiver circuit along a shorter circuit path that includes low power circuitry, such as low power buffers and low power frequency dividers. The oscillating signal may also be provided to a high power, high gain mixer along a longer circuit path that includes high power circuitry, such as high power buffers and high power frequency dividers. Specifically, the low power circuitry is adapted to consume less power in an ON state than the high power circuitry in an ON state, and the shorter circuit path has a shorter electrical path length than the longer circuit path.
A method for providing an oscillating signal within a receiver circuit, the method comprising:
A receiver circuit, comprising:
A receiver circuit, comprising:
A non-transitory processor-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for providing an oscillating signal within a receiver circuit, which when executed by at least one processor causes the processor to:
A method for providing an oscillating signal within a transmitter circuit, the method comprising:
A transmitter circuit, comprising:
A transmitter circuit, comprising:
A non-transitory processor-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for providing an oscillating signal within an transmitter circuit, which when executed by at least one processor causes the processor to:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.