324results about "Phase shifting networks" patented technology

A phase adjustment circuit includes a clock generation unit (1) which generates a sinusoidal differential clock signal; a variable amplifier (2) which receives a differential clock signal output from the clock generation unit (1) as an input, outputs an amplitude-adjusted differential clock signal, and simultaneously outputs an amplitude-adjusted in-phase signal; an adding unit (3) which adds an in-phase signal to each of a positive phase side and a negative phase side of the differential clock signal output from the variable amplifier (2); a differential transmission line (4) which transmits the differential signal output from the adding unit (3); and a terminal circuit (5) which terminates the differential transmission line (4).

An I / Q signal generating apparatus and phase shift apparatus using the same are provided, the I / Q signal generating apparatus including: a first resonance circuit whose one end is connected to a first input terminal and whose other end is connected to a first output terminal; and a second resonance circuit whose one end is connected to the other end of the first resonance circuit or a second input terminal, and whose other end is connected to a second output terminal, wherein the first resonance circuit and the second resonance circuit each include a resistor, a capacitor connected in parallel with the resistor, and an inductor connected in a form of a cross between the resistor and the capacitor.

The present disclosure provides a coupler device for use in a phased array system. The coupler device includes a weighting network and a phase matrix network. The weighting network is configured to convert and amplify an input signal to obtain eight intermediate amplified signals. The phase matrix network is coupled to the weighting network, and is configured to generate eight output signals based on the eight intermediate amplified signals. An output array of the eight output signals are obtained by performing a matrix multiplication of an array of the eight intermediate amplified signals with a phase matrix of the phase matrix network.

Provided is a phase shifter comprising: a switching unit which switches a transmission path of a signal (hereinafter, referred to as an "input signal") input through an input terminal so that the input signal is selectively transmitted to an output terminal through different paths; and a transformer which outputs the signal switched through the switching unit through the output terminal by coupling the switching unit and the output terminal.

The invention provides a novel broadband simulation multiple correlation type microwave radiometer, and relates to the technical field of passive remote sensing detection. The system comprises a double-path correlation radio frequency front-end unit, an intermediate-frequency filtering and amplifying unit and an analog multiple correlation unit, wherein the analog multiple correlation unit comprises two analog multiple correlation channels, each analog multiple correlation channel comprises a broadband multiplication unit and an active differential filtering unit, and the broadband multiplication units are used for carrying out differential conversion on input same signals and orthogonal signals and carrying out correlation operation; and performing active differential filtering processing on the signal after the correlation operation through an active differential filtering unit, and outputting two paths of orthogonal differential parameters. The analog multiple correlation unit designed by the invention adopts a full-link differential design, including differential passive / active filtering, amplification and transmission, the design can provide amplitude twice as large as that of a single-ended signal and better linearity under the same power supply voltage, and meanwhile, the problems of direct-current drift and common-mode interference suppression are solved.

The invention provides an ultra-wideband bidirectional active phase shifter based on reconfigurable PPFs, and belongs to the technical field of microwave radio frequency, the bidirectional active phase shifter adopts a symmetrical structure, and comprises two groups of single-ended to differential ultra-wideband Marchand baluns, two two-order reconfigurable PPFs, four bidirectional variable gain amplifiers and a digital control module; wherein the PPF adopts a two-order adjustable resistor and adjustable capacitor structure, the bandwidth can be expanded to realize the ultra wide band, and when the phase shifter carries out steering operation, the impedance is changed due to switching of a switch, so that an error is introduced, and the impedance is adjusted and the error is reduced by adjusting the resistor and the capacitor. According to the phase shifter, the advantages of an active phase shifter and a passive phase shifter are combined, the area can be further reduced while bidirectional phase shifting operation is achieved and the phase shifting precision is guaranteed, and the problems that a traditional active vector synthesis phase shifter can only conduct unidirectional phase shifting operation, and the area of a passive phase shifter is large are solved.

The invention discloses a terahertz phase shifter chip based on a magnetic coupling line fine adjustment technology, the magnetic coupling line fine adjustment technology is applied to a magnetic coupling line distributed attenuator, and a magnetic coupling line is added below a transmission line of the magnetic coupling line distributed attenuator. And a switching transistor array and a capacitive compensation transistor are respectively added at two ends of the magnetic coupling line. A vector synthesis type structure is adopted, the magnetic coupling line fine adjustment technology is innovatively provided and applied to the magnetic coupling line distributed attenuator, compared with a traditional distributed attenuator, the magnetic coupling line distributed attenuator has the advantages of being higher in precision and smaller in attenuation stepping, the occupied area is the same, the phase shifting control function of the phase shifter is achieved based on the attenuator, and the application range is wide. Finally, the phase of an output signal is controlled to realize a phase control function of 5.625-degree phase shift stepping in a full 360-degree range, and an amplitude control function in a 3dB range can be realized.

There is provided a phase shifter circuit of an optical encoder. The phase shifter circuit receives a first signal, a second signal, a third signal and a fourth signal sequentially having a 90-degree phase shift, and includes a first cascaded resistor string, a second cascaded resistor string, a third cascaded resistor string and a fourth cascaded resistor string. The first, second, third and fourth cascaded resistor strings respectively delay the first, third, second and fourth signals by selecting a switch connected at a tap-out node of the first, second, third and fourth cascaded resistor strings to correct phase deviations between incremental signals and an index signal and / or between incremental signals.

The invention discloses a broadband low-power-consumption receiving and transmitting shared phase shifter which comprises a differential signal common port, a frequency sampling and control circuit, a dual-mode orthogonal generation circuit and a passive vector modulation synthesis circuit. The differential signal common port comprises a common input / output port interface of RF + and RF-differential radio frequency signals; the frequency sampling and control circuit is composed of a frequency sampling circuit, a frequency detection circuit and a logic control unit. The dual-mode orthogonal generation circuit is composed of a frequency selection change-over switch, a multi-phase filter, a coupling transformer, a matching network 1 and a matching network 2. The passive vector modulation synthesis circuit is composed of two passive vector modulation arrays and two combining / power dividing circuits.

The invention discloses an ultra-wideband 180-degree phase shift circuit which comprises a radio frequency signal input end, a radio frequency signal output end, an ultra-wideband balun with a center tap and a stub compensation line, a first matching compensation network, a second matching compensation network, a differential signal switch selection circuit and a control circuit. The ultra-wideband balun can realize conversion between a single-ended signal and a differential signal in an ultra-wideband frequency range, a first differential output port of the ultra-wideband balun is connected with one end of the first compensation matching network, and a second differential output port of the ultra-wideband balun is connected with one end of the second compensation matching network; a first differential port of the differential signal switch selection circuit is connected with the other end of the first compensation matching network, and a second differential port of the differential signal switch selection circuit is connected with the other end of the second compensation matching network; and the control circuit is used for controlling the differential signal switch selection circuit to switch and output 0-degree and 180-degree radio frequency signals. According to the invention, low-error phase shift precision can be provided within the frequency range of 2-20GHz and the relative bandwidth of 160%.

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a phase shifter including a plurality of digital phase shifters, each digital phase shifter of the plurality of the digital phase shifters configured to vary a phase of a phase shifter input signal by a corresponding phase shift value, and a continuous phase shifter configured to vary the phase of the phase shifter input signal with a variable phase shift value. In various embodiments, the continuous phase shifter comprises a continuous phase shifter load configured to receive a control voltage and vary the variable phase shift value using the control voltage.

The present application relates to the technical field of communications, and in particular to a switch-based compact phase shifter and an integrated phase shifter, which solve the problems of excessive size and costs of existing phase shifters. The switch-based compact phase shifter comprises: a first filter network, the first filter network being an Nth order high-pass filter network; a second filter network, the second filter network being an Mth order low-pass filter network; and a third filter network, the third filter network being an Rth order low-pass filter network; wherein: the first filter network, the second filter network, and the third filter network are connected in parallel by means of a double-pole three-throw switch; and when the second filter network is turned on alone, the insertion phase of the switch-based compact phase shifter is a reference phase; when the third filter network is turned on alone, the insertion phase of the switch-based compact phase shifter is a first phase; when only the first filter network and the second filter network are turned on, the insertion phase of the switch-based compact phase shifter is a second phase; and when only the first filter network and the third filter network are turned on, the insertion phase of the switch-based compact phase shifter is a third phase.

The invention discloses an impedance-invariant vector synthesis phase shifter, an array element and a phased array, and relates to the technical field of phased array design. According to the impedance-invariant vector synthesis phase shifter provided by the invention, two capacitive compensation branches are arranged in each Gilbert unit of a variable gain amplifier, and the capacitive compensation branches are connected to a circuit only when bits are turned off, so that the output impedance of the unit is kept unchanged when the bits are turned on and turned off, and the output impedance of the unit is not changed when the bits are turned off. The phase shifting precision of the phase shifter is effectively improved, the root mean square phase error of the phase shifter is reduced to be within the acceptable range of the engineering field, phase shifting is directly carried out according to the most ideal condition based on IQ orthogonal signals, complicated calibration work is avoided, and the calibration problem of the vector synthesis phase shifter is solved. The invention further provides an array element which adopts the impedance-invariant vector synthesis phase shifter, the continuous time linear equalizer and the current mode attenuator and has the advantage of being convenient to deploy.

A phase shifter (100) with controllable attenuation and a method for controlling the phase shifter is disclosed, the phase shifter (100) comprising a plurality of transmission line segments (120, 220) coupled in series, wherein each said transmission line segment (120, 220) comprises an attenuation circuit (130, 230), selectively couplable between a signal line (126, 222) of the transmission line segment (120, 220) and ground to selectively attenuate a signal propagating through the transmission line segment (120, 220). Each transmission line segment (120, 220) is switchable between a first configuration providing a first phase shift for a signal propagating through the transmission line segment (120, 220) and a second configuration providing a second phase shift, greater than said first phase shift, for a signal propagating through the transmission line segment (120, 220).

The invention discloses a broadband digital phase shifter based on an inductor sharing topology and an equivalent band-pass network, relates to the technical field of microwave integrated circuits, and is suitable for being applied to a Sub-GHz frequency band. The phase shifter comprises a phase shift circuit module and a driving circuit module, and the phase shift circuit module comprises six basic phase shift units including a fine phase shift unit and a coarse phase shift unit which cooperatively realize full-range multi-state phase shift. The fine phase shift unit adopts an inductor sharing topology, so that a phase shift path and a reference path share a circuit architecture, the design is simplified, and the chip layout is optimized; the coarse tuning phase shifting unit adopts an all-pass network as a reference path, a phase shifting path is an equivalent band-pass network formed by cascading a high-pass network and a low-pass network, and the 180-degree phase shifter adopts a double-inductor all-pass network to optimize amplitude-frequency response. And the driving circuit module outputs complementary voltage pairs through the level conversion circuit to drive the switching transistor to realize path switching. The antenna has the advantages of being compact in structure, stable in amplitude, excellent in radio frequency performance and high in adaptability.

The present application discloses a phase shift circuit and a radio frequency microwave system. The phase shift circuit may comprise: a first node circuit, a second node circuit, and a first signal channel and a second signal channel coupled between the first node circuit and the second node circuit, wherein the first node circuit is configured to split an input signal so as to simultaneously output a first differential signal to the first signal channel and a second differential signal to the second signal channel; the first signal channel and the second signal channel are implemented on the basis of a differential circuit architecture, and are configured to respectively perform signal attenuation and / or quadrant transformation on the first differential signal and the second differential signal, so as to implement phase shift; the second node circuit is configured to synthesize a first phase-shifted signal output by the first signal channel and a second phase-shifted signal output by the second signal channel so as to obtain an output signal; and the phase difference between the output signal and the input signal is within the range of 0-360 degrees.

The invention provides a gain-reconfigurable active phase shifter with a low phase error, and relates to the technical field of phase shifters, and the phase shifter comprises a quadrature coupler which converts a radio frequency input signal into a shunt radio frequency signal; the input matching Balun converts the shunt radio frequency signal into a shunt differential signal; the digital control signal received by the phase inversion variable gain amplifier is used for controlling the on-off state of a differential pair in each differential group, and determining a differential combination current corresponding to a differential pair combination in a conduction state based on a shunt differential signal corresponding to each differential pair; the differential combination current is used for representing a gain state corresponding to the differential pair combination; the input impedance and the output impedance of the phase inversion variable gain amplifier in different gain states are kept unchanged; the vector synthesis module determines a phase shift differential signal based on the differential combined current; the output matching Balun converts the phase shift differential signal into a radio frequency output signal. The antenna has a wide gain adjustable range and a low phase error.

Wireless communication circuitry may include active phase shifter circuitry. The active phase shifter circuitry may include a quadrature hybrid coupler and amplifiers coupled to the outputs of the quadrature hybrid coupler. An additional quadrature hybrid coupler may be coupled to the amplifiers.

In some embodiments, the phase adjustment circuit includes a clock generator that is configured to generate a sinusoidal clock signal, and may include a variable amplifier that is configured to receive the clock signal output from the clock generator as an input, output an amplitude-adjusted sinusoidal differential clock signal, and output an amplitude-adjusted in-phase signal. The phase adjustment circuit may include an adder that is configured to output a differential signal obtained by adding the in-phase signal to each of a positive phase side and a negative phase side of the differential clock signal output from the variable amplifier, a differential transmission line that includes two transmission lines configured to transmit the differential signal output from the adder, and a terminal circuit that is configured to terminate the differential transmission line where a signal is output from a terminal of any one of the two transmission lines.

There is provided a phase shifter circuit of an optical encoder. The phase shifter circuit receives a first signal, a second signal, a third signal and a fourth signal sequentially having a 90-degree phase shift, and includes a first cascaded resistor string, a second cascaded resistor string, a third cascaded resistor string and a fourth cascaded resistor string. The first, second, third and fourth cascaded resistor strings respectively delay the first, third, second and fourth signals by selecting a switch connected at a tap-out node of the first, second, third and fourth cascaded resistor strings to correct phase deviations between incremental signals and an index signal and / or between incremental signals.

The invention discloses an active phase shifter with temperature compensation. The active phase shifter comprises an input transformer balun, a multi-phase filter, a vector modulation module based on a Gilbert unit, an output transformer balun and a positive temperature coefficient current source, the input transformer Balun is used for converting a single-ended signal of an input end into a differential signal; the multi-phase filter is used for converting the differential signal into an orthogonal signal; the vector modulation module based on the Gilbert unit is used for carrying out polarity selection on the orthogonal signals and carrying out vector synthesis; the output transformer Balun is used for converting the output end differential signal into a single-end signal; the positive temperature coefficient current source is used for controlling the gain of the Gilbert unit. By designing the positive temperature coefficient current source changing along with the temperature, the change of the gain of the vector modulation module along with the temperature is slowed down, and the stability of the key performance of the active phase shifter within the temperature range of-55 DEG C to 85 DEG C is improved.

The invention provides a circuit. The circuit generates an output signal on an output node according to an input signal received from an input node; the circuit comprises a first path, a second path, a first switch and a second switch, the first path comprises a high-pass filter, the second path comprises another filter, and the first path and the second path are both connected between an input node and an output node in parallel. The first switch and the second switch respectively control whether the first path and the second path transmit an input signal to generate an output signal; wherein, at any specific moment, only one of the first switch and the second switch is configured to allow a corresponding path to transmit an input signal; the high-pass filter comprises a first capacitor and a first inductor; the first switch is connected between the first capacitance and the first inductance in the first path. The invention also provides a phase shifter and a system. According to the invention, the influence of parasitic capacitance in a high-pass filter which is used in parallel with another filter in a switching configuration can be reduced.

A phase shifter including: an upconversion mixer configured to receive a local oscillator (LO) signal having a LO frequency, and configured to receive and multiply a radio frequency (RF) input signal with the LO signal to produce a modulated signal having two sidebands around the LO frequency, an intermediate IF sideband having frequency below the LO and an image sideband; a filter connected to and configured to receive the modulated signal from the upconversion mixer and to attenuate a range of frequencies corresponding to the image sideband to select and output the intermediate frequency (IF) sideband signal; and a downconversion mixer configured to receive and multiply the IF sideband signal with a phase shifted LO signal to produce an output signal including a phase shifted version of the RF input signal.

A phase shifter includes a first transistor, and a second transistor coupled to the first transistor. The first transistor includes an active region extending in a first direction, and a first set of gates extending in a second direction. The first set of gates overlaps the active region and is configured to receive a first voltage. The first transistor is configured to adjust a resistance or a first capacitance of the phase shifter responsive to the first voltage. The second transistor includes the active region, and a second set of gates extending in the second direction. The second set of gates overlaps the active region, is positioned along opposite edges of the active region, and is configured to receive a second voltage. The second transistor is configured to adjust a second capacitance of the phase shifter responsive to the second voltage.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to electronic circuits, and more particularly, to wireless transmitters. One example apparatus generally includes: an in-phase direct-current (DC) level shifter; a quadrature DC level shifter; an in-phase voltage-to-current (V2I) converter having an input coupled to an output of the in-phase DC level shifter; a quadrature V2I converter having an input coupled to an output of the quadrature V2I converter; a bias control circuit having inputs coupled to the in-phase V2I converter and the quadrature V2I converter, an output of the bias control circuit being coupled to at least one of the in-phase DC level shifter or the quadrature DC level shifter; an in-phase mixer having an input coupled to an output of the in-phase V2I converter; and a quadrature mixer having an input coupled to an output of the quadrature V2I converter.

A millimeter wave (mmW) communication system located on a millimeter wave integrated circuit (MMW-IC) includes a phase shifter selectively connected to a receive path by a first electromagnetic (EM) element and selectively connected to a transmit path by a second EM element, the first EM element configured to receive a transmit signal and configured to receive a receive signal from a low noise amplifier (LNA), the second EM element configured to receive a phase shifted transmit signal or a phase shifted receive signal from the phase shifter, and wherein the second EM element is configured to selectively provide the phase shifted transmit signal to a power amplifier on the mmW-IC and the phase shifted receive signal to receive signal processing circuitry located off of the mmW-IC.

The invention relates to the field of semiconductor integrated circuit design, in particular to a low-noise low-power-consumption active vector synthesis phase shifter based on a CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) process, which comprises a single-ended to differential circuit, a first orthogonal network, a second orthogonal network and a vector modulation circuit, the first end of the single-ended to differential circuit serves as an input end, and the second end and the third end of the single-ended to differential circuit are connected with the first end of the first orthogonal network and the first end of the second orthogonal network respectively. The second end and the third end of the first orthogonal network are respectively connected with the first end and the third end of the vector modulation circuit; the second end and the third end of the second orthogonal network are respectively connected with the second end and the fourth end of the vector modulation circuit; the fifth end of the vector modulation circuit serves as an output end; the noise coefficient of the phase shifter is reduced, and the power consumption of the phase shifter is reduced.

The invention discloses a phase-shift attenuator control method and a phase-shift attenuator, and relates to the field of signal processing, and the method comprises the steps: traversing all code blocks, and obtaining amplitude change information and phase change information outputted by a group of phase-shift attenuators corresponding to each code block; selecting a reference point, and constructing a plurality of ideal target points based on the reference point and the attenuation step and the phase shift step of the phase shift attenuator; taking the code block corresponding to the nearest group of change information as the code block corresponding to the ideal target point; and controlling the switch array based on the reference point corresponding to the phase shift attenuation request or the code block corresponding to the ideal target point according to the received phase shift attenuation request. And all code blocks are traversed, so that the phase-shifting attenuator can meet various phase-shifting attenuation requests. Phase shifting and attenuation are used as the same device, and phase shifting and attenuation are carried out at the same time and do not influence each other. When a phase shift attenuation request is received, a proper and accurate code block can be selected from all code blocks to perform phase shift and attenuation on a signal.

An in-phase / quadrature (l / Q) clock generator (400) is described. The l / Q clock generated includes a poly-phase filter (420) configured to generate a four-phase quadrature clock signal (422) in response to a two-phase quadrature clock signal (406) generated in response to a single-ended input clock signal (402). The l / Q clock generated also includes a phase interpolator (460) configured to generate an output four-phase quadrature clock signal (462) from the four-phase quadrature clock signal. The l / Q clock generated further includes a poly-phase filter tune circuit (430) coupled to an output of the phase interpolator (460). The poly-phase filter tune circuit (430) is configured to generate a control voltage (432) for the poly-phase filter to tune the four-phase quadrature clock signal from the poly-phase filter.

An N tap resistor network circuit (11) is provided with a plurality of first resistors and a plurality of first taps, and generates a control voltage having one of a plurality of predetermined voltage values by selecting one among the plurality of first taps in response to an inputted digital control signal. An M tap resistor network circuit (12) is provided with a plurality of second resistors and a plurality of second taps, and generates a plurality of predetermined reference voltages from the plurality of second taps. A folding circuit (13, 14) generates an output signal having a signal level corresponding to a predetermined phase of a sine wave or a cosine wave on the basis of a difference between the control voltage and the plurality of reference voltages.