摘要:
A subharmonic mixer is shown to comprise two pairs of matched antiparallel GaAs diodes disposed on a dielectric slab and operative with microstrip circuitry. By suppressing the fundamental mixing products, mixing the radio frequency signal with the second harmonic of a local oscillator (LO) signal and using relative phase differences of the LO signals in the two pairs of diodes, undesirable effects from spurious signals are minimized.
摘要:
The invention provides a coupling device between a metal wave guide (three dimensional system) and an electronic signal processing circuit (two dimensional system). The transition is provided by means of a dielectric wave guide introduced longitudinally into the metal wave guide. A chamfer cut in the dielectric guide concentrates the energy of the input signal on a face of the dielectric bar, at the interface with another dielectric material (isolated image guide). At this interface, a microstrip line transmits the energy to a semiconductor component.
摘要:
A coplanar microwave balun is disclosed in which a signal propagating along a coplanar waveguide in an unbalanced mode is launched onto another coplanar transmission line in the balanced mode. One of the ground planes of the latter transmission line itself is separated into a pair of regions which constitute the ground planes of the coplanar waveguide. These pair of regions are electrically connected, e.g., by ribbon bonds that bridge across the transmission line strip of the coplanar waveguide. The end of that transmission line strip bridges across the coplanar transmission line and acts to launch the signal thereto. The inventive balun advantageously is employed in a three port device having isolated inputs from which separate signals may be multiplexed onto a common line, and may be used in other multiplexer, mixer and modulator assemblies.
摘要:
The output electrode of a field effect transistor of a high-frequency input stage is connected to a capacitively coupled input (gate) electrode of the field effect transistor of a mixer stage through one of a pair of bifilarly wound coils provided on a ferrite core, while the second of these coils connects the same input of the mixer stage to the output of a local oscillator in such a way that two signal paths leading towards the mixer stage, respectively for the high-frequency signal and the oscillator signal, go through coupled coils in opposite winding directions. The result is that the path for signals in either direction between the local oscillator and the input stage are of much higher impedance than the paths for signals proceeding to the mixer stage respectively from the input stage and from the local oscillator.
摘要:
The converter consists of a waveguide through which passes at right-angles a dielectric wafer for a microstrip. On each side of the waveguide this strip forms a microstrip line section. In the waveguide two chip diodes in series connecting the middles of the large walls of the guide have their common point connected to the strip.
摘要:
A broadband millimeter wave (26.5-40 GHz) mixer/converter utilizing slotl and coplanar strip-line for the construction of the hybrid junction. The RF and local oscillator signals are applied 180.degree. out of phase to a pair of beam-lead diodes. A diplexer consisting of a low-pass filter and a bandpass filter is also provided to separate the IF and LO signals. A first microwave integrated circuit (MIC) card carries the waveguide to slotline transition, the slotline transmission section, the tapered coplanar waveguide section and the LO bandpass filter. A pair of Schottky-barrier diodes are connected across the transmission channels of the coplanar waveguide section to form the hybrid junction. The LO input is applied to a section of suspended strip-line on this first MIC card. A second MIC card carries the IF low-pass filter and couples to the IF output of the mixer.
摘要:
A high conversion efficiency harmonic signal mixer is provided by employing in a mixer circuit a non-rectifying semiconductor device having a generally symmetric response in the first and third quadrants of its voltage-current characteristic curve and a substantially central substantially non-conducting response adjacent the zero voltage and zero current origin of the characteristic curve.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present invention provides a receiver for wireless communication. The receiver includes a demodulator and at least one filtering mechanism coupled to the demodulator, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the filtering mechanism. The filtering mechanism can be configured to function as a low-pass filter (LPF) or a band-pass filter (BPF), thereby enabling the receiver to function as a direct-conversion receiver or a low-intermediate frequency (low-IF) receiver.
摘要:
One embodiment of the present invention provides a receiver for wireless communication. The receiver includes a demodulator and at least one filtering mechanism coupled to the demodulator, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the filtering mechanism. The filtering mechanism can be configured to function as a low-pass filter (LPF) or a band-pass filter (BPF), thereby enabling the receiver to function as a direct-conversion receiver or a low-intermediate frequency (low-IF) receiver.
摘要:
An image-rejecting receiver comprises a tunable mixer stage, a time-share I-Q mixer stage, a complex filter, and an image rejector. The time-share I-Q mixer stage includes a switch assembly, inphase and quadrature polarity inverters, and a clock generator. The switch assembly generates pulses and distributes them in alternation to the polarity inverters. Performing distribution prior to polarity inversion preserves the orthogonality of the inphase and quadrature target signal components despite pulse-to-pulse bleeding. Charge accumulated at the distributor switch input is dumped between pulses to further minimize such bleeding. A current-mode field-effect-transistor implementation ensures unity gain across each polarity inverter so that they are gain-matched. Gain matching and preservation of orthogonality optimize the conditions for the complex filter to attenuate and for the image rejector to cancel an image signal. The polarity inverters are switched in quadrature to relax polarity-inverter transition timing tolerances, decreasing costs and increasing reliability.