Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for mixing signals
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Application No.: US15568773Application Date: 2015-04-24
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Publication No.: US10686406B2Publication Date: 2020-06-16
- Inventor: Niall Duncan
- Applicant: u-blox AG
- Applicant Address: CH Thalwil
- Assignee: u-blox AG
- Current Assignee: u-blox AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Thalwil
- Agency: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
- International Application: PCT/EP2015/058991 WO 20150424
- International Announcement: WO2016/169626 WO 20161027
- Main IPC: H03D7/14
- IPC: H03D7/14 ; H03D7/16

Abstract:
A circuit comprising: a first passive mixer (21) having mixer inputs configured to receive in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) differential signals; and a first differential sub-circuit (31). The first passive mixer is configured to switch the in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) differential signals to the first differential sub-circuit at a mixing frequency. The first differential sub-circuit (31) has a pair of differential inputs configured to receive the switched in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) differential signals from the first passive mixer (21), each input having a capacitance capable of storing a charge that depends on the switched in-phase or quadrature-phase signals. The circuit further comprises a charge canceller configured to supply, to at least one of: the mixer inputs; and the pair of differential inputs, an opposite charge compared with a charge that has been stored on the pair of differential inputs by the operation of the first passive mixer.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180091098A1 METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MIXING SIGNALS Public/Granted day:2018-03-29
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