Transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase
By adding corresponding analog-to-digital converters and digital-to-analog converters to the internal loopback circuit of the transmitter and the RF front-end circuit, combining the inverter group and field effect tube capacitors, the accurate orthogonal calibration of the IQ signal is achieved, the complexity and power consumption problems of the IQ imbalance problem in the prior art are solved, and the signal quality and mirror suppression ratio are improved.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- CN202411610738.X
- Authority / Receiving Office
- CN · China
- Patent Type
- Applications(China)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-11-12
- Publication Date
- 2025-04-15
- Estimated Expiration
- 2044-11-12
AI Technical Summary
When solving the imbalance problem of IQ two-way signal, the prior art requires complex structure and high power consumption, making it difficult to achieve simple and efficient IQ calibration.
By adding an analog-to-digital converter to the internal loopback circuit and a digital-to-analog converter to the transmit RF front-end circuit, phase calibration is achieved using the inverter group and field effect tube capacitors to achieve accurate orthogonality of the IQ signal.
This method does not require digital domain compensation and training sequence calibration, and the circuit architecture is simple, which can effectively improve the mirror suppression ratio of the transmitter and improve signal quality.
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Technical Field
[0001] The present invention relates to wireless communication technology, and more particularly to a transmitter with adjustable phase of local oscillator signal. Background Art
[0002] The transmitter RF front end is often used for signal mixing and amplification of the transmitter. Compared with modulation using one signal, local oscillator signal IQ (hereinafter referred to as IQ) modulation has better sideband suppression effect and higher frequency resource utilization. However, on the RF transceiver chip, due to the path delay, the phase difference of the two IQ signals will deviate from 90°, which will cause low image suppression ratio and further signal vector modulation error. The transmitter mainly uses a mixer to achieve up-conversion function. When using IQ two-way mixing, single sideband mixing can be achieved. It is known that:
[0003]
[0004] Among them, ω LO is the local oscillator frequency signal, ω if It is a baseband frequency signal. However, when the local oscillator signal IQ is not completely orthogonal, the RF signal has not only an upper sideband signal, but also a lower sideband signal, and the lower sideband signal is not needed, so:
[0005]
[0006] in, is the orthogonal deviation.
[0007] Therefore, in order to ensure the quality of the transmitted signal, the IQ two paths need to be precisely orthogonal. The purpose of calibration is to make the IQ two paths reaching the down-mixer completely orthogonal and increase the image rejection ratio of the transmitter. IQ imbalance calibration is mainly performed by observing the internal loop circuit composed of the receiver. [1] , the phase change can be reflected in the baseband signal through down-conversion and low-pass filtering, and then the baseband signal is detected and the detected data is stored in the register. The calibration method based on this mainly includes digital domain compensation.
[0008] The idea of digital domain compensation is to process the transmitted signal through the receiving channel, perform frequency domain analysis and parameter estimation after passing it through the ADC to calculate the deviation factor of the in-phase signal and the orthogonal signal, and then calibrate it in the digital domain according to the deviation factor to change the phase of the baseband signal, thereby changing the IQ imbalance of the transmitted signal to achieve a calibration purpose. [1] .
[0009] According to the previous methods, the IQ imbalance problem is often solved by compensating in the digital domain. [2][3][5] In addition, there is also an architecture for IQ pre-distortion calibration using a training sequence[4] These structures require complex structures and consume more power.
[0010] The references identified above are as follows:
[0011] [1]DJMcLaurin et al., "Ahighly reconfigurable 65nm CM RF-to-bitstransceiver for full-band multicarrier TDD / FDD 2G / 3G / 4G / 5G macrobasestations," 2018 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference-(ISSCC), San Francisco,CA,USA,2018,pp.162-164,doi:10.1109 / ISSCC.2018.8310234.
[0012] [2] Hakan Johnson. "Method and device for compensating I / Q imbalance." CN102396199B.2014-08-20.
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[0014] [4] Wang Chen, Zhang Wen. A device and method for joint orthogonal modulation calibration between transmitter and receiver[P]. Shaanxi: CN201711289323.7, 2018-04-20.
[0015] [5] Wang Anyang, Huang Ying, Song Quanjun. Quadrature imbalance calibration scheme in direct up-conversion transmitter based on automatic temperature compensation[J]. Journal of Sensor Technology, 2022, 35(09): 1210-1214. Summary of the invention
[0016] The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a transmitter with adjustable phase of local oscillator signal based on the idea of adjusting capacitor to change phase, and multiplex the intermediate frequency part of the receiver for IQ calibration. The circuit architecture is simple and no digital domain compensation and training sequence are required for calibration.
[0017] A transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to the present invention comprises an internal loopback circuit, a transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit and a register or a baseband signal unit; the transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit comprises a transmitting network ANT1, an up-mixer RF2, a second local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first digital-to-analog converter DAC1; the first digital-to-analog converter DAC1 performs digital-to-analog conversion on a second baseband signal received from the register or the baseband signal unit and inputs the resultant signal into the up-mixer RF2, mixes the signal with the local oscillator signal IQ processed by the second local oscillator phase calibration unit, and outputs a radio frequency signal RF;
[0018] The internal loop circuit receives the radio frequency signal RF output by the transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit, and the internal loop circuit includes an attenuator ATT1, a down-mixer RF1, a first local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first analog-to-digital converter ADC1. The radio frequency signal RF and the external local oscillator signal LO after passing through the first local oscillator phase calibration unit are simultaneously input into the down-mixer RF1 to form a first baseband signal;
[0019] The internal loop circuit further includes a second analog-to-digital converter ADC2; the baseband signal and a reference voltage Vref are simultaneously input into the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 for analog-to-digital conversion to output a control word COMP <n:0>The second local oscillator phase calibration unit includes an inverter group consisting of a plurality of inverters INVk connected in series, wherein a coarse tuning capacitor Cap1 and a fine tuning capacitor Cap2 are arranged between the inverters INVk of the inverter group, and the coarse tuning capacitor Cap1 is provided with a switch signal receiving terminal Cap <n:0>, the switch signal receiving terminal Cap <n:0>Used to receive the control word COMP <n:0>;
[0020] The transmitting RF front-end circuit also includes a second digital-to-analog converter DAC2; the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 is used to receive a preset analog adjustment signal ADJ transmitted from a register or a baseband signal unit, and convert the preset analog adjustment signal ADJ into a control signal Vctrl; the control signal Vctrl is input into the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2, and is used to change the capacitance product of the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2; wherein N is a natural number, and k is a natural number greater than 1.
[0021] As a further improvement, the coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 includes N analog capacitors 1 and N analog capacitors 2 connected in parallel.
[0022] Furthermore, the analog capacitor 1 is composed of a first field effect transistor PMn and a control switch Cap_P <n>The control switch Cap_P <n>Receive control word COMP <n:0>The gate of the first field effect transistor PMn is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, and the source and drain of the first field effect transistor PMn are connected to the control switch Cap_P <n>A switch end of the control switch Cap_P <n>The other switch end is grounded, and the substrate of the first field effect transistor PMn is connected to the common end.
[0023] Furthermore, the analog capacitor 2 is composed of a second field effect transistor NMn and a control switch Cap_N <n>The control switch Cap_N <n>Receive control word COMP <n:0>The gate of the second field effect transistor NMn is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, and the source and drain of the second field effect transistor NMn are connected to the control switch Cap_N <n>A switch end of the control switch Cap_N is connected, and the control switch Cap_N <n>The other switch terminal is grounded, and the substrate of the second field effect transistor NMn is connected to the reference terminal.
[0024] As a further improvement, the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2 includes a third field effect transistor NMm, the gate of the third field effect transistor NMm is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, the source and drain of the third field effect transistor NMm are simultaneously connected to the control signal Vctrl, and the substrate of the third field effect transistor NMm is connected to the reference end, wherein m is a natural number.
[0025] As a further improvement, the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 outputs a current signal according to a preset analog adjustment signal ADJ, and the signal output end of the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 is grounded through a resistor to convert the current signal into a voltage signal through the resistor, and the voltage signal is used as the control signal Vctrl.
[0026] As a further improvement, the inverter group is composed of five inverters INVk connected in series in sequence, a coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 is provided between the three inverters INVk close to the signal input terminal LO_IN of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit, and a fine adjustment capacitor Cap2 is provided between the three inverters INVk close to the signal output terminal LO_OUT of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit.
[0027] As a further improvement, the radio frequency signal RF is input to an input terminal of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 after passing through the synchronous control switch SB1, and the reference voltage Vref is input to another input terminal of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 after passing through the synchronous control switch SB2. The control terminals of the synchronous control switch SB1 and the synchronous control switch SB2 simultaneously receive the clock signal CLK. sample .
[0028] As a further improvement, the first digital-to-analog converter DAC1 is connected to the up-mixer RF2 via a second low-pass filter LPF2.
[0029] As a further improvement, the down-mixer RF1 is connected to the first analog-to-digital converter ADC1 via a low-pass filter LPF1.
[0030] Beneficial Effects
[0031] The advantages of the present invention are:
[0032] 1. During the detection phase, an internal loopback structure is used to detect the IQ phase offset. There is no need to adjust it in the digital domain. The phase can be adjusted through the FPGA register, saving resources.
[0033] 2. Two methods are used to calibrate the phase. One is to perform coarse adjustment by automatic calibration through the internal loop circuit structure, and the other is to fine-tune the phase by artificially changing the capacitance threshold voltage of the field effect tube to change the capacitance size. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0034] Figure 1 It is a schematic diagram of the transmitter circuit structure in the related art;
[0035] Figure 2 Based on Figure 1 Schematic diagram of the internal loop mixing process structure;
[0036] Figure 3 It is a schematic diagram of the transmitter circuit structure of the present invention;
[0037] Figure 4 It is a schematic diagram of the structure of the external circuit of the ADC in the internal loop circuit of the present invention;
[0038] Figure 5 It is a schematic diagram of the circuit structure of the local oscillator phase calibration unit of the present invention;
[0039] Figure 6 This is a graph showing the capacitance of the field effect tube of the present invention changing with voltage;
[0040] Figure 7 It is a schematic diagram of the local oscillator phase calibration based on the control word of the present invention;
[0041] Figure 8 It is a schematic diagram of the local oscillator phase calibration based on the field effect tube of the present invention;
[0042] Fig. 9 It is a schematic diagram of the external circuit structure of the DAC of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION
[0043] The present invention will be further described below in conjunction with the embodiments, but it does not constitute any limitation to the present invention. Any limited number of modifications made by anyone within the scope of the claims of the present invention are still within the scope of the claims of the present invention.
[0044] See also Figure 1-Figure 9 A transmitter with adjustable phase of a local oscillator signal of the present invention comprises an internal loopback circuit, a transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit and a register or a baseband signal unit. The register or baseband signal unit is a general term for the register unit and the baseband signal unit of the FPGA. The transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit comprises a transmitting network ANT1, an up-mixer RF2, a second local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first digital-to-analog converter DAC1. The first digital-to-analog converter DAC1 performs digital-to-analog conversion on the second baseband signal received from the register or the baseband signal unit and inputs it into the up-mixer RF2, and mixes it with the local oscillator signal IQ processed by the second local oscillator phase calibration unit to output a radio frequency signal RF. The internal loopback circuit receives the radio frequency signal RF output by the transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit, and the internal loopback circuit comprises an attenuator ATT1, a down-mixer RF1, a first local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first analog-to-digital converter ADC1. The internal loop circuit includes an attenuator ATT1, a down-mixer RF1, a first local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first analog-to-digital converter ADC1; the radio frequency signal RF and the external local oscillator signal LO after passing through the first local oscillator phase calibration unit are simultaneously input into the down-mixer RF1 to form a first baseband signal. The external local oscillator signal LO is a standard local oscillator signal, which has no phase error. In this embodiment, the external local oscillator signal LO is input into the first local oscillator phase calibration unit after passing through the first phase-locked loop PLL1. The transmitting network ANT1 is a balun and matching network. The structures of the two local oscillator phase calibration units in this embodiment are consistent.
[0045] In view of the problems existing in the prior art, the present invention is implemented by adding an analog-to-digital converter in the internal loop circuit and adding a digital-to-analog converter in the transmitting radio frequency front-end circuit.
[0046] The internal loop circuit also includes a second analog-to-digital converter ADC2. The first baseband signal and a reference voltage Vref are simultaneously input into the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 for analog-to-digital conversion to output a control word COMP <n:0>. The second local oscillator phase calibration unit includes an inverter group composed of a plurality of inverters INVk connected in series, and the second local oscillator phase calibration unit is connected to the local oscillator signal IQ through the second phase-locked loop PLL2. Specifically, the input end of the second phase-locked loop PLL2 inputs the local oscillator signal IQ, and outputs the signal LO_I and the signal LO_P respectively. In the inverter group, the input end of the inverter INVk located at the head end serves as an input end of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit. In the present embodiment, the two input ends of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit respectively input the signal LO_I and the signal LO_P, collectively referred to as LO_IN. The output end of the inverter INVk located at the end serves as the output end of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit, and the output signal is collectively referred to as LO_OUT, as shown in FIG. Figure 5 shown.
[0047] A coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 and a fine adjustment capacitor Cap2 are sequentially arranged between the inverters INVk of the inverter group. The coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 is provided with a switch signal receiving terminal Cap<6:0>, and the switch signal receiving terminal Cap<6:0> is used to receive the control word COMP<6:0>. Figure 3 The Calibration circuit in the RF front-end circuit is used to transmit the control word COMP<6:0> from the register or the baseband signal unit to the second local oscillator phase calibration unit. The transmitting RF front-end circuit also includes a second digital-to-analog converter DAC2. The second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 is used to receive a preset analog adjustment signal ADJ transmitted from the register or the baseband signal unit, and convert the preset analog adjustment signal ADJ into a control signal Vctrl; the control signal Vctrl is input into the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2, and is used to change the capacitance product of the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2.
[0048] Regarding the control signal Vctrl, specifically, the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 outputs a current signal according to a preset analog adjustment signal ADJ, and the signal output end of the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 is grounded through a resistor to convert the current signal into a voltage signal through the resistor, and the voltage signal serves as the control signal Vctrl.
[0049] In the up-conversion stage of the transmitter, due to the IQ imbalance of the local oscillator signal, in addition to the upper sideband component ω if +ω LO appears, and there is also a lower sideband component ω if -ω LO Appear, and the two sideband frequencies are close. This is a very common phenomenon in the transmitter RF front end. After the internal loopback circuit is turned on, the RF signal RF will be attenuated by an attenuator ATT1. The attenuator ATT1 will only reduce the power of the signal and will not shift the frequency of the signal; after attenuation, it is mixed with the external local oscillator signal LO through the up-mixer RF2. Since the external local oscillator signal LO is an ideal orthogonal signal, the phase difference of the RF signal RF is moved to the baseband signal, and then the high-frequency signal is filtered out by the low-pass filter LPF1. The remaining signal is the first baseband signal with phase difference information. The internal loopback mixing process is shown in the figure Figure 2 shown.
[0050] After the RF signal is down-converted,
[0051]
[0052]
[0053] Wherein, VOUTI and VOUTQ represent the RF signal RF+ and RF signal RF- respectively. After the RF signal RF passes through the down-mixer RF1, it passes through the low-pass filter LPF1. Therefore, the RF signal RF after passing through the low-pass filter LPF1 is:
[0054]
[0055] Right now Figure 4 The VOUT in the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 is input LPF is the RF signal after filtering. It can be seen that the phase error is reflected in the baseband signal. When detecting the baseband signal, the analog-to-digital converter is used. According to the different amplitudes of signals in different phases at the same time, it can be known that the charges stored on the capacitors when the baseband signal is sampled are different. Therefore, COMP<6:0> generated by the analog-to-digital converter reflects the phase of the baseband signal.
[0056] Specifically, the circuit structure diagram of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 in the internal loop circuit is as follows: Figure 4 As shown, the radio frequency signal RF passes through the synchronous control switch SB1 and then is input to the radio frequency signal input terminal of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2, the reference voltage Vref passes through the synchronous control switch SB2 and then is input to the reference voltage input terminal of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2, and the control terminals of the synchronous control switch SB1 and the synchronous control switch SB2 simultaneously receive the clock signal CLK sample .
[0057] The seven-bit control word COMP<6:0> output by the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 is stored in the register of the FPGA, and the local oscillator phase calibration unit is controlled by the register to calibrate the local oscillator signal IQ phase, such as Figure 5 shown.
[0058] exist Figure 5 In the embodiment, the inverter group is composed of five inverters INV1-5 connected in series, a coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 is provided between the three inverters INVk (i.e., INV1-3) close to the signal input terminal LO_IN of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit, and a fine adjustment capacitor Cap2 is provided between the three inverters INVk (i.e., INV3-5) close to the signal output terminal LO_OUT of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit. In other words, there are two coarse adjustment capacitors Cap1 and two fine adjustment capacitors Cap2.
[0059] Specifically, the coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 includes six analog capacitors 1 and six analog capacitors 2 connected in parallel. The analog capacitor 1 is composed of a first field effect transistor PMn and a control switch Cap_P <n>Composition, control switch Cap_P <n>Receive control word COMP <n:0>The gate of the first field effect transistor PMn is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, and the source and drain of the first field effect transistor PMn are connected to the control switch Cap_P <n>Connect one switch end of the control switch Cap_P <n>The other switch end of the first field effect transistor PMn is grounded, and the substrate of the first field effect transistor PMn is connected to the common end. The analog capacitor 2 is composed of the second field effect transistor NMn and the control switch Cap_N <n>Composition, control switch Cap_N <n>Receive control word COMP <n:0>The gate of the second field effect transistor NMn is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, and the source and drain of the second field effect transistor NMn are connected to the control switch Cap_N <n>Connect one switch end of the control switch Cap_N <n>The other switch end is grounded, and the substrate of the second field effect transistor NMn is connected to the reference end. The fine-tuning capacitor Cap2 includes a third field effect transistor NMm, the gate of the third field effect transistor NMm is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, the source and drain of the third field effect transistor NMm are simultaneously connected to the control signal Vctrl, and the substrate of the third field effect transistor NMm is connected to the reference end, wherein n is any natural number from 1 to 6, and m is 2_1 or 2_2, corresponding to two fine-tuning capacitors respectively.
[0060] The present invention adopts a compensation method through an analog-to-digital converter, and uses a register or a baseband signal unit to control the control switch of the capacitor array in the coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1, thereby changing the number of capacitors on the local oscillator path, that is, by changing the size of the capacitor on the path, the time for charging the capacitor to a specific voltage is changed, thereby changing the delay of the local oscillator path, and finally changing the phase of the local oscillator signal IQ. In addition, the present invention also uses a current steering array based on a digital-to-analog converter and a resistor, converting the current into a voltage through a resistor, and changing the source-drain voltage of the third field effect transistor NMm through the voltage, thereby changing the threshold voltage of the field effect transistor. Among them, the source and drain of the field effect tube are short-circuited, and changing the threshold voltage will change the size of the integral capacitance of the field effect tube capacitor. The higher the threshold voltage, the smaller the integral capacitance. The purpose of changing the capacitance is to adjust the time constant on the local oscillator path, and then adjust the phase of the local oscillator signal IQ, thereby achieving local oscillator signal IQ phase calibration.
[0061] The IQ phase imbalance of the local oscillator signal is calibrated mainly by changing the time constant τ = RC in the local oscillator path. The relationship between the time constant and the phase change is:
[0062]
[0063] Among them, f LO is the frequency of the local oscillator signal.
[0064] In this embodiment, the local oscillator phase calibration unit can be calibrated by coarse adjustment and fine adjustment through the design of coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 and fine adjustment capacitor Cap2. Among them, COMP<6:0> is connected to Cap<6:0>, that is, the phase of the local oscillator signal IQ is automatically adjusted by detecting the RF signal through the analog-to-digital converter, so as to achieve coarse adjustment of the phase of the local oscillator signal IQ; and the control signal Vctrl changes the threshold voltage of the third field effect transistor NMm and then changes the size of the integral capacitor, so as to achieve fine adjustment of the phase of the local oscillator signal IQ.
[0065] exist Figure 5 In the circuit, since the capacitors are all MOS capacitors, it is necessary to set the MOS capacitor value first. The local oscillator signal IQ jumps at the voltage of 0~AVDD, so the MOS integral capacitor is used as the capacitance value:
[0066]
[0067] The seven-bit control word generated by the analog-to-digital converter ADC is output in the form of 0000000, 0000001, 0000011…1111111, so eight gear adjustments can be achieved, such as Figure 7 The following table shows the relationship between the control word and the phase adjustment.
[0068] Control Word Relative delay (ps) Relative delay step (ps) Relative phase delay (°) 0000000 0 --- 0 0000001 0.43 0.43 0.46 0000011 0.84 0.41 0.91 0000111 1.24 0.4 1.34 0001111 1.64 0.4 1.77 0011111 2.03 0.39 2.19 0111111 2.42 0.39 2.61 1111111 2.81 0.39 3.03
[0069] In addition to the above-mentioned automatic coarse calibration, the phase of the local oscillator signal can also be changed by fine calibration.
[0070] According to the influence of body effect on threshold voltage, the formula is as follows:
[0071]
[0072] The threshold voltage of the field effect tube increases with V SB increases with the increase of. Figure 8 As shown by the red line, when Vt increases, the interval with smaller capacitance value increases, the interval with larger capacitance value decreases, and the overall equivalent capacitance decreases. Figure 5 The control signal Vctrl in the third field effect tube NMm is reduced, and the local oscillator path delay can be changed, thereby fine-tuning the local oscillator phase. Therefore, the present invention uses a current steering array based on a digital-to-analog converter and a resistor to control the IQ two-phase current, and then converts the current into a voltage through a resistor to change Vctrl. Figure 5 and Fig. 9 As shown, after the preset analog adjustment signal ADJ is input to the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2, it outputs two current signals, and the two current signals are converted to obtain two control signals, namely Vctrl_I and Vctrl_Q. Vctrl_I and Vctrl_Q are used to control the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2_1 and the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2_2 respectively. Among them, the preset analog adjustment signal ADJ is output from the register of the FPGA, and its preset is stored in the register.
[0073] The above is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention. It should be pointed out that for those skilled in the art, several modifications and improvements can be made without departing from the structure of the present invention, which will not affect the effect of the implementation of the present invention and the practicality of the patent.< / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> < / n>
Claims
1. A transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase, comprising an internal loopback circuit, a transmitting RF front-end circuit and a register or baseband signal unit; the transmitting RF front-end circuit comprises a transmitting network ANT1, an up-mixer RF2, a second local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first digital-to-analog converter DAC1; the first digital-to-analog converter DAC1 performs digital-to-analog conversion on a second baseband signal received from the register or the baseband signal unit and inputs the result to the up-mixer RF2, and mixes the result with the local oscillator signal IQ processed by the second local oscillator phase calibration unit to output a radio frequency signal RF; The internal loop circuit includes an attenuator ATT1, a down-mixer RF1, a first local oscillator phase calibration unit and a first analog-to-digital converter ADC1; the radio frequency signal RF and the external local oscillator signal LO after passing through the first local oscillator phase calibration unit are simultaneously input into the down-mixer RF1 to form a first baseband signal; it is characterized in that The internal loop circuit further includes a second analog-to-digital converter ADC2; the first baseband signal and a reference voltage Vref are simultaneously input into the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 for analog-to-digital conversion to output a control word COMP <n:0>The second local oscillator phase calibration unit includes an inverter group consisting of a plurality of inverters INVk connected in series, wherein a coarse tuning capacitor Cap1 and a fine tuning capacitor Cap2 are arranged between the inverters INVk of the inverter group, and the coarse tuning capacitor Cap1 is provided with a switch signal receiving terminal Cap <n:0>, the switch signal receiving terminal Cap <n:0>Used to receive the control word COMP <n:0> ;< / n:0> The transmitting RF front-end circuit also includes a second digital-to-analog converter DAC2; the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 is used to receive a preset analog adjustment signal ADJ transmitted from a register or a baseband signal unit, and convert the preset analog adjustment signal ADJ into a control signal Vctrl; the control signal Vctrl is input into the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2, and is used to change the capacitance product of the fine-tuning capacitor Cap2; wherein N is a natural number, and k is a natural number greater than 1.
2. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 1, characterized in that: The coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 includes N analog capacitors 1 and N analog capacitors 2 connected in parallel.
3. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 2, characterized in that: The analog capacitor is composed of a first field effect transistor PMn and a control switch Cap_P <n>The control switch Cap_P <n>Receive control word COMP <n:0>The gate of the first field effect transistor PMn is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, and the source and drain of the first field effect transistor PMn are connected to the control switch Cap_P <n>A switch end of the control switch Cap_P <n> The other switch end is grounded, and the substrate of the first field effect transistor PMn is connected to the common end.< / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> 4. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 2, characterized in that: The analog capacitor 2 is composed of a second field effect transistor NMn and a control switch Cap_N <n>The control switch Cap_N <n>Receive control word COMP <n:0>The gate of the second field effect transistor NMn is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, and the source and drain of the second field effect transistor NMn are connected to the control switch Cap_N <n>A switch end of the control switch Cap_N is connected, and the control switch Cap_N <n> The other switch terminal is grounded, and the substrate of the second field effect transistor NMn is connected to the reference terminal.< / n> < / n> < / n> < / n> 5. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 1, characterized in that: The fine-tuning capacitor Cap2 includes a third field effect transistor NMm, a gate of the third field effect transistor NMm is connected to the output end of the corresponding inverter INVk, a source and a drain of the third field effect transistor NMm are simultaneously connected to the control signal Vctrl, and a substrate of the third field effect transistor NMm is connected to the reference end, wherein m is a natural number.
6. A transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 1 or 5, characterized in that: The second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 outputs a current signal according to a preset analog adjustment signal ADJ, and a signal output terminal of the second digital-to-analog converter DAC2 is grounded through a resistor to convert the current signal into a voltage signal through the resistor, and the voltage signal is used as the control signal Vctrl.
7. A transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to any one of claims 1 to 5, characterized in that: The inverter group consists of five inverters INVk connected in series in sequence. A coarse adjustment capacitor Cap1 is provided between the three inverters INVk close to the signal input terminal LO_IN of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit, and a fine adjustment capacitor Cap2 is provided between the three inverters INVk close to the signal output terminal LO_OUT of the second local oscillator phase calibration unit.
8. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 1, characterized in that: The radio frequency signal RF is input to one input terminal of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 after passing through the synchronous control switch 1 SB1, and the reference voltage Vref is input to the other input terminal of the second analog-to-digital converter ADC2 after passing through the synchronous control switch 2 SB2. The control terminals of the synchronous control switch 1 SB1 and the synchronous control switch 2 SB2 simultaneously receive the clock signal CLK sample .
9. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 1, characterized in that: The first digital-to-analog converter DAC1 is connected to the up-mixer RF2 via a second low-pass filter LPF2.
10. The transmitter with adjustable local oscillator signal phase according to claim 1, characterized in that: The down-mixer RF1 is connected to the first analog-to-digital converter ADC1 via a low-pass filter LPF1.
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