Abstract:
There are provided a variable inductor with little degradation in quality factor, and an oscillator and a communication system using the variable inductor. An inductance controller comprising a reactance device with a variable device value, such as, for example, a variable capacitor, is connected to a secondary inductor, magnetically coupled to a primary inductor through mutual inductance. The inductance controller is provided with an inductance control terminal for receiving a control signal for controlling capacitance of the variable capacitor. Inductance of the primary inductor is varied by varying the capacitance by the control signal.
Abstract:
There is disclosed a variable-gain amplifier circuit that operates on a low voltage, exhibits low distortion, provides a wide range of variation, and is suitable for use in a low-power-consumption wireless communication system. The variable-gain amplifier circuit is configured so that a variable-load circuit, which includes three reactance function elements and provides a wide range of impedance variation, is connected to a conductor circuit whose output terminal generates a positive-phase output current proportional to conductance with respect to an input voltage.
Abstract:
The present invention is directed to provide a low-power-consumption wide-range RF signal processing unit having a small chip occupation area. A semiconductor integrated circuit has, on a semiconductor chip, a resonant circuit including a first capacitor having a capacitance which can be controlled by a first control signal of a first control terminal, and a gyrator for equivalently emulating an inductor by including a second capacitor having a capacitance which can be controlled by a second control signal of a second control terminal. The capacitance and the inductor form a parallel resonant circuit. At the time of changing parallel resonant frequency, the capacitances of the first and second capacitors are coordinately changed. The parallel resonant circuit is suitable for an active load which is connected to an output node of an amplifier.
Abstract:
A frequency synthesizer comprises: a single-tone signal generator which outputs signals of a single frequency; a frequency multiplier which generates one or more intermediate signals having different frequencies based on frequencies of input signals and outputs the same as output signals; a frequency selector; a mixer; and a frequency synthesizer control circuit which includes a frequency synthesizer control terminal, wherein an output of the single-tone signal generator is set as an input of the frequency multiplier, one or more outputs of the frequency multiplier are set as one or more inputs of the frequency selector, an output of the frequency selector and one output of the outputs of the frequency multiplier are set as first and second inputs of the mixer, and an output of the mixer is set as an output of the frequency synthesizer.