公开(公告)号：US11349448B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-31

申请号：US16586153

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Inventor： Ruifeng Sun ,  Francesco Barale ,  Vinod Jayakumar ,  Sherry Xiaohong Wu ,  Mustafa H. Koroglu ,  Essam S. Atalla

IPC: H03F3/24 ,  H03H7/01 ,  H04B1/40

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for on-chip harmonic filtering for radio frequency (RF) communications. For disclosed embodiments, a filter circuit is coupled between a first internal node and a connection pad for an integrated circuit. The filter circuit includes a first inductance, a variable capacitance, and a second inductance. The capacitance amount for the variable capacitance is controlled to tune filtering for the filter circuit to a harmonic of a frequency for a transmit output signal. A power amplifier outputs the transmit output signal to the connection pad without passing through the filter circuit. The filter circuit filters the harmonic of the frequency for the transmit output signal, shunting harmonic current to ground. For one embodiment, the filtered harmonic is a third harmonic of the transmit frequency. For one embodiment, the transmit output signal has an output power greater than or equal to 15 dBm.

公开(公告)号：US20210099148A1

公开(公告)日：2021-04-01

申请号：US16586153

申请日：2019-09-27

Applicant: Silicon Laboratories Inc.

Inventor： Ruifeng Sun ,  Francesco Barale ,  Vinod Jayakumar ,  Sherry Xiaohong Wu ,  Mustafa H. Koroglu ,  Essam S. Atalla

IPC: H03H7/01 ,  H03F3/24

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for on-chip harmonic filtering for radio frequency (RF) communications. For disclosed embodiments, a filter circuit is coupled between a first internal node and a connection pad for an integrated circuit. The filter circuit includes a first inductance, a variable capacitance, and a second inductance. The capacitance amount for the variable capacitance is controlled to tune filtering for the filter circuit to a harmonic of a frequency for a transmit output signal. A power amplifier outputs the transmit output signal to the connection pad without passing through the filter circuit. The filter circuit filters the harmonic of the frequency for the transmit output signal, shunting harmonic current to ground. For one embodiment, the filtered harmonic is a third harmonic of the transmit frequency. For one embodiment, the transmit output signal has an output power greater than or equal to 15 dBm.