931 results about "Low-noise amplifier" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a radio frequency low-noise amplifier which comprises an input matching module, a power amplification module, an output matching module, an RC attenuation module and an RC feedback module, the first end of the first inductor serves as the input end of the output matching module, the first end of the first inductor is connected with the output end of the power amplification module, the control end of the switch and the first end of the first adjustable resistor, and the second end of the first inductor is connected with the first end of the second inductor and the first end of the third capacitor. The output end of the switch is connected with the first end of the first capacitor and the first end of the second capacitor. The second end of the second capacitor is connected with the second end of the first adjustable resistor and the second end of the second inductor and used for being connected with a power supply. The second end of the first capacitor is connected with the second end of the third capacitor and serves as the output end of the output matching circuit. The radio frequency low-noise amplifier is adjustable in gain, low in noise and good in linearity performance.

The invention discloses a noise elimination circuit structure, a low noise amplifier, a chip and electronic equipment. The noise elimination circuit structure comprises an input matching network; a common source stage amplification path connected with the first differential output end of the input matching network, comprising a first common source stage differential amplifier, and outputting an amplified first signal inverted from the radio frequency input signal to the ground; the common-gate amplification path is connected with the second differential output end of the input matching network, comprises a first common-gate differential amplifier and outputs an amplified second signal which is opposite to the radio frequency input signal to the ground; and the output end of the common-source amplification path and the output end of the common-gate amplification path are connected in parallel to form the output end of the noise elimination circuit structure. The common-source amplification path and the common-gate amplification path required by the noise elimination structure are realized by using one amplifier path, the utilization rate of the layout area is improved, the compactness of the layout is realized, and the amplifier can be widely applied to the field of communication or radar.

The invention discloses a C / X wave band ultra-wideband GaAs MMIC low-noise amplifier, and mainly relates to the technical field of radio frequency front ends. Comprising an input matching network used for receiving a radio frequency signal and performing impedance matching so as to effectively transmit the signal to a subsequent active amplification part; and the active amplification part adopts an improved cascode-cascode cascade amplification structure and is used for amplifying the radio frequency signal transmitted by the input matching network. The amplifier has the advantages that an improved cascode-cascode cascade amplification structure is adopted, the gain is improved through an improved Cascode structure, the noise coefficient of the circuit is reduced, and the performance indexes of ultra wide band, low noise and high gain are achieved. The design of the structure not only improves the overall performance of the amplifier, but also enables the amplifier to keep stable gain output in a broadband range, and effectively solves the problems of low gain and high noise of a traditional low-noise amplifier in broadband application.

Methods and devices to improve nonlinearity performance of low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are disclosed. The described methods and devices reduce the capacitive loading of the LNA amplifying devices on the bypass path of the LNAs when operating in the bypass mode. This is performed by decoupling the active devices from ground to put the amplifying devices in a floating state, thus minimizing the impact of the gate-source capacitances of the amplifying devices on the overall linear performance of the LNA operating in the bypass mode.

The invention relates to a folded cascode low noise amplifier. The disclosed low noise amplifiers (LNAs) include a common emitter amplifier (CE-A), a common gate amplifier (CG-A), and various passive devices located in CE-A and CG-A. The CE-A includes an NPN type bipolar junction transistor (BJT) having emitter and collector (E / C) regions, and a base region located between the E / C regions and connected to an input node. The CG-A includes a P-channel field effect transistor (PFET) having source and drain (S / D) regions, a channel region between the S / D regions, and a gate adjacent to the channel region. A drain region of the PFET is connected to the output node. Further, the common inductor, the collector region of the BJT, and the source region of the PFET are connected at an intermediate node. The LNA is implemented on a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) in which the BJT and the FET are located on different chips and the passive device is located in a back-end-of-line region between the BJT and the FET.

Disclosed is a technology related to a low noise amplifier applied between an RF receiver and an RF switch. A phase difference matching circuit having the same phase difference as a positive gain amplifier is added to an output terminal of an attenuator of a low noise amplifier having a variable gain switching structure. In addition, a variable impedance circuit connected to an output terminal of the positive gain amplifier and an output terminal of a phase difference matching unit to finely adjust the phase difference of each output terminal may be further included.

The invention relates to the field of radar detection methods, and discloses a microwave photon multiband radar detection method, which comprises the following steps: generating detection signals of multiple bands based on a microwave photon method, transmitting the detection signals to a target, and then carrying out dechirp processing and digital signal processing on target reflection signals to obtain a target detection result. The method specifically comprises the following steps: generating a fundamental frequency signal through a user-defined bit sequence generator, a pulse generator and an electric frequency modulator, adjusting the central wavelength and bandwidth of a signal waveform by the electric frequency modulator, amplifying the power of the fundamental frequency signal by a certain multiple through an electric power amplifier, and modulating by a distributed feedback semiconductor laser, a plurality of sidebands with equivalent power are generated by the spectrum of the optical fiber, a modulated fundamental frequency signal is input into the photoelectric detector through the optical fiber, and then the modulated fundamental frequency signal is amplified by the electric low noise amplifier to generate a multi-band frequency modulation signal. And the multifunctional detection capability of the radar system can be realized.

A disclosed low noise amplifier (LNA) includes a common-emitter amplifier (CE-A), a common-gate amplifier (CG-A) and various passive devices in CE-A and CG-A. CE-A includes an NPN-type bipolar junction transistor (BJT) with emitter and collector (E / C) regions and a base region between the E / C regions and connected to an input node. CG-A includes P-channel field effect transistor (PFET) with source and drain (S / D) regions, a channel region between the S / D region, and a gate adjacent to the channel region. The drain region of the PFET is connected to an output node. Additionally, a common inductor, collector region of the BJT, and source region of the PFET are connected at an intermediate node. The LNA is implemented on a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) with the BJT and FET on different chips and with passive devices in back end of the line regions between the BJT and FET.

The invention belongs to the technical field of cognitive radio, and particularly relates to an open set modulation identification method based on time-frequency domain feature learning and fusion. The method comprises the following steps of: receiving a signal by adopting a receiving antenna through electromagnetic spectrum monitoring equipment, capturing a space electromagnetic radiation signal, converting the space electromagnetic radiation signal into an electric signal, amplifying the signal through a low-noise amplifier, performing frequency conversion and filtering through an analog receiver, and converting the received signal into an intermediate-frequency signal. Then, the signal is digitalized through AD sampling, and the intermediate frequency signal is converted into a baseband complex signal through frequency mixing and digital filtering in a digital receiver. Then performing time domain characterization calculation and frequency domain characterization calculation on the signal sampling data to form a plurality of time domain characterization vectors and a plurality of frequency domain characterization vectors; and then the vectors are sent to a trained deep neural network model, reasoning is carried out by using the network model, a reasoning result is post-processed, and a signal modulation identification result is finally obtained. According to the invention, the recognition accuracy of unknown signals is improved.

The invention provides a low-noise amplification circuit, a radio frequency front-end module and an electronic terminal.The low-noise amplification circuit comprises an input matching adjustment circuit, a common-source amplification circuit, a first inductor, an inter-stage feedback circuit, a common-gate amplification circuit, an input and output feedback circuit, an output matching adjustment circuit and an output attenuation circuit; the common-source amplification circuit comprises at least two first signal amplification units; each first signal amplification unit comprises a first field effect transistor; the common-gate amplification circuit comprises at least two second signal amplification units; and each second signal amplification unit comprises a second field effect transistor. According to the low-noise amplification circuit, transconductance nonlinearity of devices under different bias signals can be mutually counteracted, so that the linearity fluctuation of the low-noise amplification circuit at different temperatures is optimized, and the linearity of the low-noise amplification circuit is kept basically not to change along with the temperature change.

Aspects of the present disclosure provide a circuit configured to adjust an input impedance of an amplifier such as a low-noise amplifier. In certain aspects, the circuit is coupled to a node, wherein the node is between a first transistor and a second transistor of the amplifier. The circuit may include an inductor and a capacitor coupled in series, wherein the inductor is coupled with one or more load inductors of the amplifier through negative magnetic coupling.

The invention provides a Q / V frequency band large-scale satellite communication load channel optimization method, which comprises a forward input link and a backward output link, and is characterized in that the forward input link comprises a V frequency band multi-beam antenna feed source array, a plurality of input preselectors, a V frequency band low noise amplifier input switch ring and a V / Ka integrated receiver assembly which are connected in sequence; the output end of the V-band multi-beam antenna feed source array is connected with the input end of the V / Ka integrated receiver assembly through a waveguide. The reverse output link comprises a Ka / Q frequency converter, a Q-band channel filter, a Q-band traveling wave tube amplifier, a change-over switch, a Q-band output duplexer or filter and a Q-band feed beam which are connected in sequence, and the output end of the Ka / Q frequency converter is connected to the input end of the Q-band channel filter through a waveguide; and the output end of the Q-band channel filter is directly connected to the input end of the Q-band traveling wave tube amplifier through the waveguide. Therefore, the method is low in link loss, high in space utilization rate and high in feasibility.

The invention provides a container supervision article verification method based on the radio frequency identification technology, and relates to the technical field of container supervision article verification based on the radio frequency identification technology, and the method comprises the steps: transmitting a wireless signal to a tag on the surface of an article through RFID equipment, and enhancing a received reflection signal through a low-noise amplifier, filtering environmental noise by using a band-pass filter, converting a filtered reflected signal into a time domain signal by using an analog-to-digital converter, and extracting frequency domain characteristics by using FFT (Fast Fourier Transform) so as to calculate a waveform characteristic index; establishing a historical fingerprint template library, storing a waveform characteristic index corresponding to each state, setting a dynamic similarity threshold value based on historical data distribution, screening out templates of which the Euclidean distance is smaller than the threshold value and which belong to the same state as candidates, and if the candidate templates are not empty, selecting the state corresponding to the template of which the Euclidean distance is minimum as a judgment result; and if the candidate template is empty, the state is judged to be abnormal, and container opening alarm is triggered.

Front-end architectures for simultaneous transmit and receive operation are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a front-end module includes a bandpass filter, an antenna terminal for connecting to an antenna, a power amplifier, a low noise amplifier, and a plurality of switches for controlling access of the power amplifier and the low noise amplifier to the antenna terminal. The switches are operable in a transmit mode in which the switches connect an input of the power amplifier to the bandpass filter and an output of the power amplifier to the antenna terminal, and a receive mode in which the switches connect the input of the low noise amplifier to the antenna terminal through the bandpass filter.

The invention provides a radio frequency power division unit, a radio frequency power division module and a radio frequency receiving system. The radio frequency power division unit comprises a first low noise amplifier, a first single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch, a second single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch, a third single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch, a power divider, a fourth single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch and a fifth single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch; the input impedance of the input end of the power divider, the impedance of the first output end of the power divider and the impedance of the second output end of the power divider are all the same. According to the radio frequency power dividing unit in the embodiment, the impedance of the two output ends of the power divider can be completely matched with the input impedance of the transceiver connected with the rear stage of the power divider, so that the transmitted radio frequency energy cannot be reflected, and the maximum transmission of the radio frequency energy is realized.

The invention provides a low-noise amplifier and a radio frequency front-end module, and the low-noise amplifier comprises an input matching circuit, a first-stage power amplification circuit, an inter-stage matching circuit, a second-stage power amplification circuit and an output matching circuit. The inter-stage matching circuit comprises a first inductor, a second inductor and a first capacitor; the second-stage power amplification circuit is of a cascode structure; and the output matching circuit comprises a third inductor and a fourth inductor which are coupled with each other. According to the low-noise amplifier, the high-frequency gain, the in-band gain flatness, the isolation degree, the stability and the output matching bandwidth of the low-noise amplifier can be improved.

The utility model provides a kind of electrostatic discharge protection circuit and low noise amplification module, the electrostatic discharge protection circuit is applied to low noise amplification circuit, the low noise amplification circuit includes input matching circuit and the low noise amplifier of the output end being connected to the input matching circuit;The electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes inductance and resistance;The first end of the inductance is used to connect to the signal input end of low noise amplifier;The first end of the resistance is connected to the second end of the inductance, and the second end of the resistance is grounded.The electrostatic discharge protection circuit in the utility model is connected to the input end of low noise amplifier, and the noise coefficient of low noise amplifier will not be deteriorated, and the performance of low noise amplifier will not be affected, and the input stability of low noise amplifier will not be affected simultaneously.

The utility model relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a low noise amplifier and a radio frequency chip, comprising an input matching circuit, a power amplification circuit and an output matching circuit which are electrically connected in sequence, the power amplification circuit comprises a first MOS tube and a second MOS tube, the grid electrode of the first MOS tube is used as the input end of the power amplification circuit and is connected to the output end of the input matching circuit, the source electrode of the first MOS tube is grounded, the drain electrode of the first MOS tube is connected with the source electrode of the second MOS tube, and the drain electrode of the second MOS tube is used as the output end of the power amplification circuit and is connected to the input end of the output matching circuit; the low-noise amplifier further comprises an inductance switching circuit capable of being combined into different inductance values, and the source electrode of the first MOS tube is connected with the inductance switching circuit in series and then is grounded. According to the low-noise amplifier, switching of various inductance values of the source electrode inductor can be achieved, and higher flexibility is brought to compromise of indexes of low-gain gears.

An integrated photonics millimeter wave (MMW) radar communication system based on analog phase modulation scheme includes an integrated photonics MMW radar communication signal transmitter, a radar receiver, and a communication receiver. The transmitter includes a radar communication signal analog phase modulation module, an optical frequency comb (OFC) module, an electro-optic modulator (EOM), an optical shaping filter, an optical power divider, a photoelectric detector, an electric power amplifier, and a transmitting antenna that are cascaded sequentially. The radar receiver includes a radar receiving antenna, an electric low-noise amplifier (LNA), an optical phase modulator, an optical bandpass filter (BPF), a low-speed photoelectric detector, an electric low-pass filter, and a low-speed oscilloscope that are cascaded sequentially. In the communication receiver, a communication receiving antenna is sequentially cascaded with an electric LNA, a frequency mixer, and an oscilloscope, and a voltage-controlled oscillator is cascaded with a frequency multiplier and then connected to the frequency mixer.

Circuits and methods for providing ESD protection, particularly for LNAs lacking a DC blocking input capacitor (“capless LNAs”). Novel circuitry provides both improved ESD protection and an improved Noise Figure compared to conventional designs. One embodiment includes an integrated circuit including a voltage source pin and a plurality of low-noise amplifiers lacking a respective DC blocking input capacitor, each of the plurality of low-noise amplifiers including: a voltage source terminal coupled to the voltage source pin, an input terminal configured to receive a signal to be amplified, an output terminal configured to output an amplified version of the received signal to be amplified, an ESD protection circuit coupled to the input terminal and to both the voltage source terminal and a reference potential, and a distributed ESD clamp coupled between the reference potential and a node located between the ESD protection circuit and the voltage source terminal.

The invention relates to the technical field of electronic circuits, in particular to a radio frequency front-end lightning protection circuit and lightning protection equipment. The circuit comprises a primary discharge module, a radio frequency signal protection branch and a direct current power supply protection branch, the input end of the primary discharge module is connected with an antenna port, and the primary discharge module is used for discharging high-energy pulses generated by lightning stroke; the radio frequency signal protection branch is connected between the output end of the primary discharge module and a low noise amplifier of the radio frequency receiving link, and is used for coupling a radio frequency signal to the low noise amplifier and carrying out isolation and voltage limiting on a lightning stroke residual pulse; the direct current power supply protection branch circuit is connected between the output end of the primary discharge module and a power supply voltage stabilizer of the direct current power supply link, and is used for transmitting a direct current power supply to the power supply voltage stabilizer and carrying out isolation and voltage limiting on the lightning stroke residual pulse. The circuit can be combined with a radio frequency front end and used for a navigation antenna, and the lightning stroke protection capability is improved.

Device structures and fabrication methods for MOSFETs having a novel multiple-conductive layer “T”-shaped gate (as viewed in cross-section). The novel “T-gate” significantly decreases the gate resistance RG of a MOSFET device and thus increases the figure-of-merit fMAX (the maximum device oscillation frequency, or the frequency at which the maximum power gain equals unity) and reduces the noise factor (NF) of the device. Fabrication of the novel MOSFET devices may be readily integrated into existing IC fabrication processes, and such MOSFETs may have gate lengths Lg scaled below the lithographic capabilities of the fabrication process. Some embodiments include conformal gate side-spacers. Some embodiments include non-conformal air-gapped gate side-spacers that result in reduced parasitic gate-to-source capacitance CGS and gate-to-drain capacitance CGD, with concomitant improved performance at high radio frequencies (RF). Embodiments of the novel MOSFET device enable RF circuits, such as low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), to exhibit a better noise figure parameter, NFmin.

Apparatus and methods for power amplifier signal limiting are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a front-end system includes a low noise amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency receive signal during a receive frame, a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency transmit signal during a transmit frame, and a signal limiter operable to limit a signal power of the power amplifier in an attenuating mode. The signal limiter includes a radio frequency detector configured to generate a detection signal based on detecting a power level of the radio frequency transmit signal, and a latch that locks the signal limiter in the attenuating mode in response to activation of the detection signal. The latch is reset by a bias signal of the power amplifier that is activated during the transmit frame and deactivated during the receive frame.

The present invention relates to the technical field of wireless communications. Disclosed in the present invention are a low-noise amplifier and a radio-frequency chip. The low-noise amplifier comprises a signal input end, a power amplifier circuit, an output matching circuit, an attenuation network and a signal output end, which are sequentially and electrically connected; and the low-noise amplifier further comprises a bypass circuit. The bypass circuit comprises a bypass switch circuit and a bypass matching circuit, wherein a first end of the bypass switch circuit serves as an input end of the bypass circuit, a first output end of the bypass switch circuit serves as a first output end of the bypass circuit, a second output end of the bypass switch circuit is connected to an input end of the bypass matching circuit, and an output end of the bypass matching circuit serves as a second output end of the bypass circuit; and the bypass switch circuit comprises a first bypass switch unit and a second bypass switch unit. The low-noise amplifier of the present invention has a simple structure, occupies a small area, and has high linearity.

The invention relates to a sweep frequency optical frequency comb generation system and a generation method. Fourier mode locking is realized through a Fourier mode locking photoelectric oscillator system. The sweep frequency optical frequency comb generation system is a closed Fourier mode-locked laser loop which is composed of a first optical amplifier, an optical fiber isolator, a broadband filter, a polarization controller, a thin film lithium niobate optical chip, a signal generator, a dispersion compensation optical fiber and a first optical coupler; and a photoelectric oscillator loop is formed by a second optical coupler, a single-mode delay optical fiber, a second optical amplifier, a photoelectric detector, a narrow-band filter, a low-noise amplifier and an electric power divider. Time domain active mode locking and Fourier mode locking are carried out on the laser resonant cavity at the same time, synchronous modulation of multiple optical frequency comb modes is achieved, sweep frequency optical frequency comb signals with high repetition frequency, high modulation speed, high coherence length and high output power are generated, and tunable optical frequency comb and high-quality high-frequency microwave signal output can be provided at the same time.

The invention provides a radio frequency front-end circuit, a radio frequency receiving device and electronic equipment. The radio frequency front-end circuit comprises a first integrated filter, a first discrete combiner, an integrated noise amplifier and an integrated receiving chip; the first integrated filter receives a first sub-signal of a first frequency band and a second sub-signal of a second frequency band in the original radio frequency signal through which the original radio frequency signal passes, and filters out signals of other frequency bands; the first discrete combiner receives the first sub-signal and the second sub-signal and combines the first sub-signal and the second sub-signal into a first combined signal; the integrated low-noise amplifier performs low-noise amplification on the first combined signal to obtain a second combined signal, wherein the second combined signal comprises a third sub-signal of the first frequency band and a fourth sub-signal of the second frequency band; the integrated receiving chip is provided with a first receiving pin and a second receiving pin, the first receiving pin is used for receiving the third sub-signal, and the second receiving pin is used for receiving the fourth sub-signal. According to the radio frequency front-end circuit, the number of integrated devices can be reduced, and the cost is reduced.

A 4 frequency-shift keying (4FSK) transceiver is provided. The 4FSK transceiver includes both a 4FSK transmitter and a 4FSK receiver. The 4FSK transmitter includes a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) and two data links coupled to the VCO for delivering two parallel streams of input data bits to the VCO. For each pair of parallel input data bits received from the two data links, the VCO outputs a modulated signal having one of four operating frequencies via 4FSK modulation. Separately, the 4FSK receiver includes a power divider, for dividing the multi-frequency modulated signal into two paths of two binary bit streams, and a pair of low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) separately coupled to the two paths and configured as a pair of band-pass filters for filtering two different subsets of the four operating frequencies from the two binary bit streams into two filtered binary bit streams.

An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver circuit, a front-end module, and an antenna. The front-end module may include amplifier circuitry such as a low noise amplifier for amplifying received radio-frequency signals. The amplifier circuitry may include non-linearity suppression circuitry that suppresses or reduces non-linear behavior of components such as a core amplification transistor and a degeneration inductor within the amplifier circuitry. The non-linearity suppression circuitry may include an intermodulation distortion suppression circuit having an auxiliary amplification transistor. The non-linearity suppression circuitry may include a frequency-selective filter coupled to the degeneration inductor.

A radio frequency module and a communication device capable of further suppressing a decrease in reception sensitivity are provided. A radio frequency module includes a switch (second switch), a reception filter (second reception filter), a low-noise amplifier (second low-noise amplifier), and a filter (second filter). The switch is configured to change over between a transmission path of a transmission signal and a reception path of a reception signal in communication based on a time division duplex system. The reception filter is provided at a subsequent stage of the switch and is configured to pass the reception signal in a predetermined frequency band. The low-noise amplifier is configured to amplify the reception signal that has passed through the reception filter. The filter is provided at a preceding stage of the switch in the reception path (second reception path).

An LNA with inductive source degeneration provided by a degeneration network is presented. The degeneration network includes an inductor in parallel with a stability compensation network for provision of unconditional stability with reduced effect on in-band performance of the LNA. The stability compensation network includes an RLC network comprising a resistor, an inductor and a capacitor in series connection. According to one aspect, a resonant frequency provided by the series-connected inductor and capacitor is selected based on a known frequency of instability. Values of the resistor, inductor and capacitor are iteratively derived based on an optimization routine with criteria that includes a magnitude of the μ-factor. The criteria further include an in-band RF performance of the LNA. According to another aspect, initial values of the inductor and capacitor are selected for an initial value of the resonant frequency to be equal to about 10× the in-band frequency.