发明授权
- 专利标题: Low noise class AB linearized transconductor
- 专利标题(中): 低噪声级AB线性化跨导体
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申请号: US12820807申请日: 2010-06-22
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公开(公告)号: US08120426B1公开(公告)日: 2012-02-21
- 发明人: Marcus Granger-Jones , Jim Connelly
- 申请人: Marcus Granger-Jones , Jim Connelly
- 申请人地址: US NC Greensboro
- 专利权人: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- 当前专利权人: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- 当前专利权人地址: US NC Greensboro
- 代理机构: Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C.
- 主分类号: H03F3/45
- IPC分类号: H03F3/45
摘要:
A transconductor stage is a linearized class AB amplifier having embedded noise filtering that enables a biasing of an in-phase/quadrature (I/Q) modulator core with a low quiescent current. Linearization of the transconductor stage is increased by introducing a small amount of negative feedback into the transconductor stage via a feedback circuitry and an error amplifier. A dominant open loop pole in a path between the error amplifier and an output stage of the transconductor stage forms a dominant pole low-pass filter. A low-pass filter transfer function created when a loop including the feedback circuitry is closed attenuates noise introduced by baseband circuitry that supplies baseband signals to the transconductor stage. A master output stage biases a plurality of slave output stages that are in parallel with the master output stage. Each slave output stage is coupled to an individual modulator core such as a Gilbert cell mixer core.
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