Current-mirror and level-shifter OOK circuitry cuts gate-voltage swing to reduce jitter and ISI in isolation-barrier transmission.
Phase-delayed copies of a digital sequence are mixed to cut radar side-lobe power while preserving code capability and easing implementation.
Buffer-isolated mixer paths and shunt-capacitor filtering cut carrier aggregation interference and protect RF transceiver signal quality.
Separate LO+ and LO- timing calibration aligns data transitions with low LO states to suppress RF-DAC glitches and improve linearity.
By decimating before coarse mixing and reusing subfilter outputs for I/Q paths, this RF-sampling ADC DDC cuts multiplications, power, and circuit complexity.
A VLIF two-stage mixing scheme shifts LO leakage out of band, helping low-power transmitters meet in-band emission limits.
Selective switching between PWM and power-stage feedback cuts THD+N and background noise, especially for small audio signals.
A protection circuit detects PLL frequency unlock before amplification and shuts down the local oscillator or PA to prevent burnout.
A switchable coupling scheme lets one transconductor vary input capacitance to balance flicker noise reduction against wide-bandwidth operation.
A dual-output DDS with frequency multiplication and mixing preserves phase coherence while reducing spurs and phase noise at high tuning speed.
A phase adjustment module adds controlled delay to one LO source, enabling non-integer phase offsets for vector modulators and harmonic rejection mixers.
Gap-timed pulsed LO waveforms suppress target mixer harmonics in RF transceivers, reducing carrier aggregation interference with low gain loss.
Switchable transistor coupling changes input capacitance so one transconductor mode cuts flicker noise while another supports wider bandwidth.
A TDC-guided polar RF converter cuts ADC bit demand and oversampling while improving low-power QAM and APSK signal reception.
Frequency shifting compresses TX carrier spacing so PIM estimation can run at a lower sampling rate, cutting RF power use and design complexity.
Precomputed event packets let an LPWAN IoT sensor send accurate messages with counter states while cutting CPU use, complexity, and power.
Continuous LO leakage detection steers DAC-controlled IF bias to maintain mixer leakage cancellation under temperature and environmental changes.
Phase-guided ADC sampling cuts oversampling and ADC bit depth, enabling lower-power direct RF reception of QAM and APSK signals.
Complementary digital phase signals enable DAC mixing without local oscillators, cutting timing mismatch, silicon area, and power use.
A biasing circuit tracks LO amplitude to keep mixer DC current stable, preserving gain and linearity across broadband mm-wave operation.
Preset control words set the ring divider start phase in an N-path filter, enabling low-overhead phase correction and beam steering.
An analog carrier recovery circuit uses harmonic generation and injection locking to enable high-speed N-PSK demodulation with lower power.
A TDC-guided polar receiver cuts ADC bit demand and avoids oversampling while directly converting QAM and APSK RF signals.
Digitally variable coupling capacitors correct quadrature LO phase error while preserving high QVCO frequency and lowering phase noise.
Adjustable varactors and temperature-dependent biasing help offset RF amplifier gain slope changes across wide bandwidths and temperatures.
A feedback inductor offsets parasitic capacitance in a switched-capacitor LNA, keeping center frequency stable above 3 GHz.
Optical frequency conversion over multi-mode fiber carries RF signals with lower loss and less nonlinear distortion than coaxial links.
Programmable digital filters and predictive coders replace high-order passive RF filtering, improving selectivity, tunability, and dynamic range.
Fully digital MEMS gyroscope control replaces analog compensation and complex PLLs to cut power and area while improving error correction.
A fully digital MEMS gyroscope controller uses phase-shift filtering instead of a PLL to cut power, save silicon area, and keep detection precise.
Divided channel clocks and a shared tick scale let GNSS receivers process mixed signal spectra with lower power and synchronized phase control.
Heterogeneous III-V and silicon packaging cuts parasitic interconnects in linear RF samplers, improving linearity and reducing insertion loss.
Multiple transistors in Darlington and cascode super-cell layouts raise RF current gain, bandwidth, input impedance, and output power.
A shared digital mixer and software protocol stacks let one vehicle radio modem handle LTE and WLAN Car2X with fewer RF components.
Downconverted and filtered signal samples are used to estimate and cancel I/Q DC offsets in RF transmitters, improving transmit signal purity.
Quadrature LO sideband switching enables multi-band beamforming arrays to raise effective power while reducing RF complexity and power use.
Switching IF center frequency by environment thresholds cuts power use in normal modes while resisting jamming during SPS signal processing.
A multi-port tuner-based approach extracts mixer noise parameters for each harmonic sideband to handle impedance mismatch and improve receiver SNR.
Quadrature mixing and low-pass filtering narrow fingerprint signal bandwidth to raise SNR, improve sensitivity, and resist interference.
A single master oscillator injection-locks multiple channel lasers to cut receiver size, mass, and cost while preserving multichannel RF performance.
A passive-mixer downconverter uses phase differencing and summation filtering to reject odd harmonics without SAW filters or LNAs.
Using two-phase LO generation and anti-phase RF combining, this I/Q circuit improves LO-RF isolation while reducing DC offsets and mismatch.
Selective mixers and an external frequency splitter cut phase noise during precise high-frequency tuning while enabling rapid frequency changes.
Shared reversible RF chains and dual IF paths shrink TDD transceiver layout while preserving fast switching, low phase noise, and low spurs.