1633 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 is suitable for the technical field of wireless communication, and particularly relates to a low-noise amplifier and a radio frequency chip. The low noise amplifier comprises an input matching circuit, a biasing circuit, an amplifying circuit, an output matching circuit, an attenuator and an anti-distortion gain suppression circuit. Compared with the prior art, the anti-distortion gain suppression circuit capable of preventing distortion caused by overlarge waveform amplitude is additionally arranged at the joint of the first MOS tube and the second MOS tube of the amplification circuit, and the problem of linearity deterioration caused by overlarge waveform amplitude of a chip amplification link can be effectively reduced through the anti-distortion gain suppression circuit; therefore, the low noise amplifier can output radio frequency signals with better linearity.

The invention provides a radio frequency front-end module. The radio frequency front-end module comprises a power amplifier, a single-pole double-throw radio frequency switch, a low-noise amplifier, a first single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch, a coupler, a double-pole double-throw radio frequency switch, a radio frequency amplifier, a second single-pole single-throw radio frequency switch, a detector and an operational amplifier. According to the radio frequency front-end module, when the processing capacity of the upper computer is weak or commands between the upper computer and the radio frequency front-end module are incompatible, the signal receiving capacity of the radio frequency front-end module can be improved, switching between a receiving bypass channel and a low-noise amplifier channel can be achieved in time, meanwhile, the complexity of transmitting power control is effectively reduced, radiation is reduced, and the reliability of transmitting power control is improved. The energy consumption is reduced, and the service life of the radio frequency front-end module is prolonged.

The invention relates to the technical field of mining dust concentration monitoring, in particular to a mining dust concentration monitoring system and method, and the system comprises a dust sensor module, a signal amplification and filtering module, an analog-to-digital conversion module and a data processing and monitoring module; the dust sensor module is used for detecting the dust concentration in an underground coal mine and adopts a multi-mode detection mode combining electrostatic induction and optics; the signal amplification and filtering module comprises a low-noise amplifier and a self-adaptive filtering circuit, the multi-mode sensor is combined with the automatic temperature compensation and self-adaptive filtering technology, the measurement precision and the signal stability of the concentration of tiny dust in a complex environment are greatly improved, meanwhile, the temperature compensation function is introduced, and the measurement precision is improved. And by combining a nonlinear compensation algorithm, a dynamic response adjustment mechanism and a multivariable compensation system, the stability and precision of signal amplification in a complex underground coal mine environment are remarkably improved.

The invention discloses a miniaturized four-frequency active navigation antenna with high phase center stability. The miniaturized four-frequency active navigation antenna is composed of a structure mounting platform, a feed network layer, a low noise amplifier circuit layer and a passive antenna. According to the miniaturized four-frequency active navigation antenna with the high phase center stability, the high phase center stability can be ensured on the premise of four-frequency working; the higher the stability of the antenna phase center is, the higher the positioning precision is; each working frequency band adopts double-feed to realize circular polarization, so that the problem of low stability of a phase center caused by multi-frequency design of the antenna is solved, and multi-frequency-band high-precision positioning is realized; the dielectric materials in charge of each working frequency band are selected from the same material, so that the cost is saved; miniaturization processing is adopted, and B3 frequency band miniaturization is realized by using an SRR structure and a T-shaped branch knot; the information receiving and transmitting system of the active navigation antenna is provided, and a laminated composite fixing mode which is high in integration level and does not affect radiation performance is achieved.

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 belongs to the technical field of integrated circuits, and particularly relates to a multichannel ultrasonic imaging special integrated circuit suitable for integrated packaging. The application-specific integrated circuit is formed by cascading a plurality of multi-channel single chips, the multi-channel single chips adopt four ultrasonic channel input architectures, and each channel comprises an ultrasonic analog front end, an analog-to-digital converter and an ultrasonic digital signal processing module; the ultrasonic analog front end comprises four sub-modules, namely a low-noise amplifier, a voltage control attenuator, a programmable gain amplifier and an anti-aliasing low-pass filter; the analog-to-digital converter adopts a three-stage successive approximation register pipeline cascade structure to realize 14-bit digital output; the ultrasonic digital signal processing module is used for processing the ultrasonic signals quantized by the ADC, including ADC data preprocessing, data demodulation, signal interpolation and extraction, beam forming, test signal generation and the like; the number of channels is expanded through SIP packaging, and the method can be used for ultrasonic imaging of medical ultrasonic diagnosis and has high flexibility and expandability.

Front end systems and related devices, integrated circuits, modules, and methods are disclosed. One such front end system includes a low noise amplifier in a receive path and a multi-mode power amplifier circuit in a transmit path. The low noise amplifier includes a first inductor, an amplification circuit, and a second inductor magnetically coupled to the first inductor to provide negative feedback to linearize the low noise amplifier. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit includes a stacked output stage including a transistor stack of two or more transistors. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit also includes a bias circuit configured to control a bias of at least one transistor of the transistor stack based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier circuit. Other embodiments of front end systems are disclosed, along with related devices, integrated circuits, modules, methods, and components thereof.

Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) with low noise figure are provided. In certain embodiments, an LNA includes a single-ended LNA stage including an input for receiving a single-ended input signal from an antenna and an output for providing a single-ended amplified signal, a balun for converting the single-ended amplified signal to a differential signal, and a variable gain differential amplification stage for amplifying the differential signal from the balun. Implementing the LNA in this manner provides low noise figure, high gain, flexibility in controlling gain, and less sensitivity to ground / supply impedance.

A matching circuit, a radio frequency front-end circuit, a radio transceiver apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The radio frequency front-end circuit includes a low noise amplifier and a power amplifier each coupled to an antenna through a matching circuit. The matching circuit includes a transformer, a capacitor, a first switch, and a first inductor element. The transformer is coupled to the power amplifier and the antenna. The capacitor is coupled to the transformer and to the low noise amplifier. The first switch is coupled to the capacitor and to the transformer and is grounded. The first inductor element is coupled to the capacitor and to the first switch and is grounded. A resonant network formed by the first inductor element and the first switch enables the radio frequency front-end circuit to in a wide frequency band.

The invention discloses an interference elimination method for a same-time and same-frequency time synchronization system, which is suitable for a microwave time synchronization networking system and is characterized in that radio frequency domain self-interference cancellation is carried out before a signal received by a receiving end of a time synchronization networking node from an antenna enters a low noise amplifier; the introduced offset signal is obtained by coupling a part of a transmitting signal before the transmitting end enters an antenna from the transmitting end of the node, and correcting amplitude, time delay and phase through radio frequency reconstruction. The invention further discloses a same-time and same-frequency time synchronization system, the time synchronization networking node comprises a transmitting end, and a receiving end is connected to a receiving and transmitting antenna through a circulator; and a radio frequency self-interference suppression module is arranged between a first port of the circulator connected with the output of the transmitting end and a third port of the circulator connected with the input of the receiving end to sample a radio frequency signal output by the transmitting end and then realize radio frequency reconstruction, so as to generate an offset signal to be coupled to the input of the receiving end.

The invention discloses a magnetic particle imaging signal processing link and method based on adjustable external compensation, and the link is characterized in that a signal generator is respectively connected with the input ends of a first power amplifier and a second power amplifier through a first output end and a second output end, the output end of the first power amplifier is connected with the input end of a first capacitor, and the output end of the second power amplifier is connected with the input end of a second capacitor; the output end of the first capacitor is connected with the input end of the receiving excitation module, the output end of the second power amplifier is connected with the input end of the second capacitor, the output end of the second capacitor is connected with the input end of the compensation excitation module, and the output ends of the receiving excitation module and the compensation excitation module are connected with the input end of the low-noise amplifier. The output end of the low-noise amplifier is connected with the input end of the acquisition card, the output end of the acquisition card is connected with the input end of the central processing unit, and the output end of the central processing unit is connected with the input end of the signal generator. According to the invention, the sensitivity and the imaging quality of the MPI equipment are obviously improved.

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.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to impedance matching for outputting wide-band signals in radio frequency applications. In an example, a circuit including a low-noise amplifier (LNA) sub-circuit and a tuning sub-circuit is provided. The LNA sub-circuit is configured to couple to an antenna and includes a transistor that includes a gate, a source, and a drain, a first inductor that includes a first terminal configured to couple to the antenna and includes a second terminal, a second inductor that includes a first terminal coupled to the first terminal of the first inductor and includes a second terminal coupled to the gate of the transistor, and a third inductor that includes a first terminal coupled to the source of the transistor and includes a second terminal. The tuning sub-circuit is coupled to the source of the transistor.

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 provides a millimeter wave low-noise amplifier which comprises a first-stage amplifying circuit, a second-stage amplifying circuit and a third-stage amplifying circuit, the signal output end of the first-stage amplifying circuit is connected with the signal input end of the second-stage amplifying circuit, and the signal output end of the third-stage amplifying circuit is connected with the signal output end of the third-stage amplifying circuit. The signal output end of the second-stage amplification circuit is connected with the signal input end of the third-stage amplification circuit; according to the low-noise amplifier, the transformer is matched with the transmission line inductor and the transmission line plate capacitor in a combined mode, loss of a passive matching circuit is reduced, and meanwhile large-bandwidth output of the low-noise amplifier is achieved; a cascode amplification structure is adopted, the transformer is combined with a transmission line plate capacitor and a transmission line inductor for impedance matching, and broadband, high-gain amplification and low-noise signal output can be achieved.

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.

The invention discloses a differential closed-loop negative feedback amplification circuit based on JFET geminate transistors, a low-noise amplifier is used for measuring weak voltage signals, discrete JFET field-effect transistors are used for forming an input stage of the low-noise amplifier, noise interference is reduced, meanwhile, extremely high input impedance can be provided by using the characteristic that the grid current of the JFET field-effect transistors is basically zero, and the differential closed-loop negative feedback amplification circuit based on the JFET geminate transistors is obtained. Mirror current is provided for a pair of JFET field effect transistors in the low-noise amplifier module through a current mirror of the low-noise amplifier, a closed-loop feedback structure of the low-noise amplifier can save one path of input for the JFET field effect transistors, so that the amplifying circuit can realize dual-channel input, and a dual-channel input structure can enable an accessed signal to be a differential signal, so that common-mode interference is effectively inhibited, and the reliability of the amplifying circuit is improved. Overall closed-loop negative feedback can achieve high gain stability, reduce nonlinear distortion, increase input impedance, reduce output impedance and improve the performance of the amplifier, and solves the problem of precise amplification and measurement of weak voltage signals in the aviation electromagnetic field.

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.

Front end systems and related devices, integrated circuits, modules, and methods are disclosed. One such front end system includes a low noise amplifier in a receive path and a multi-mode power amplifier circuit in a transmit path. The low noise amplifier includes a first inductor, an amplification circuit, and a second inductor magnetically coupled to the first inductor to provide negative feedback to linearize the low noise amplifier. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit includes a stacked output stage including a transistor stack of two or more transistors. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit also includes a bias circuit configured to control a bias of at least one transistor of the transistor stack based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier circuit. Other embodiments of front end systems are disclosed, along with related devices, integrated circuits, modules, methods, and components thereof.

A radio-frequency circuit includes first and second transfer circuits. The first transfer circuit supports reception of a cellular communication system and a satellite system. The second transfer circuit supports transmission and reception of the cellular communication system. The first transfer circuit includes a first filter circuit and a first low-noise amplifier circuit. The first filter circuit is connected to a first antenna connection terminal and has a pass band including a cellular receive band and a satellite receive band. The first low-noise amplifier circuit is connected to the first filter circuit. The second transfer circuit includes a second filter circuit, a power amplifier circuit, and a second low-noise amplifier circuit. The second filter circuit is connected to a second antenna connection terminal and has a pass band including the cellular receive band and a cellular transmit band corresponding to the cellular receive band.

Low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, an LNA includes an input balun configured to convert a single-ended radio frequency (RF) receive signal to a differential RF receive signal, an amplifier chain configured to amplify the differential RF receive signal to generate a differential amplified RF receive signal, and an output balun configured to convert the differential amplified RF receive signal into a single-ended amplified RF receive signal. The LNA's amplifier chain is operable in multiple gain modes, and includes a first differential amplification stage, a second differential amplification stage, and a third differential amplification stage.

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 discloses a low-power-consumption low-noise amplification circuit with temperature compensation, and belongs to the field of radio frequency amplifiers, the amplification circuit comprises a temperature compensation bias module and an amplifier main body unit, the temperature compensation bias module comprises first to third enhancement mode transistors and first to eighth resistors, the amplifier main body unit comprises an input matching circuit, a fourth enhanced transistor, an inter-stage matching circuit, a fifth enhanced transistor, a sixth enhanced transistor and an output matching circuit; the temperature compensation bias module outputs a first bias voltage applied to the grid electrode of the fourth enhancement mode transistor, outputs a second bias voltage applied to the grid electrode of the fifth enhancement mode transistor and outputs a third bias voltage applied to the grid electrode of the sixth enhancement mode transistor, and the input end of the input matching circuit receives a radio frequency signal. And the output end of the output matching circuit outputs the amplified radio frequency signal. The low-noise amplifier can solve the problem that the gain of the low-noise amplifier is greatly changed due to the influence of temperature under the condition of low power consumption.

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.

The present disclosure is directed to low noise amplifiers built as a monolithic millimeter or microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) that includes an amplification stage with two or more field effect transistors (FETS) connected in a parallel configuration. An amplifier may include two, three, or more amplification stages. Amplifiers consistent with the present disclosure may operate at frequencies in the range of 3 gigahertz (GHz) to 9 GHz. Each transistor or amplification stage may include their own series feedback element. A second amplification stage may include two parallel transistors, with one having a series feedback element and a feedback shunt spanning the second stage. A third stage may include a single transistor. Each of the transistors connected in a parallel configuration may be tuned to a different corner frequency in order to improve metrics of noise figure, gain, input return loss, and output return loss not possible with conventional amplifier designs.

The invention discloses a K-band amplitude-limiting low-noise amplifier, and belongs to the technical field of radio frequency microelectronics. The circuit comprises an input matching module, a diode amplitude limiting module, an inter-stage matching module, a low-noise amplification module and an output matching module which are cascaded in sequence, the input matching module is used for realizing impedance matching between a radio frequency signal input end and the diode amplitude limiting module and transmitting a radio frequency signal; the diode amplitude limiting module is used for limiting the amplitude of the radio frequency signal and transmitting the radio frequency signal; the inter-stage matching module is used for realizing impedance matching between the diode amplitude limiting module and the low-noise amplification module; the low-noise amplification module is used for carrying out amplification processing on the radio frequency signal after amplitude limiting and transmitting the radio frequency signal; and the output matching module is used for realizing impedance matching between the low-noise amplification module and the radio frequency signal output end and outputting the amplified radio frequency signal. According to the invention, the amplitude of the input signal can be limited, so that the amplitude is kept in a bearable range of the low-noise amplification circuit, and the stability and reliability of the whole system are ensured.

An apparatus, including: a receiver including a low noise amplifier (LNA) configured to amplify a received radio frequency (RF) signal based on a first protocol; a transmitter configured to generate a transmit RF signal based on a second protocol; and a first control circuit configured to control a gain of the LNA based on information regarding the transmit RF signal and the received RF signal.