Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Semiconductor integrated circuit
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Application No.: US12365548Application Date: 2009-02-04
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Publication No.: US08385875B2Publication Date: 2013-02-26
- Inventor: Yasunobu Yoshizaki , Tetsuya Wakuda
- Applicant: Yasunobu Yoshizaki , Tetsuya Wakuda
- Applicant Address: JP Kanagawa
- Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Kanagawa
- Agency: Mattingly & Malur, PC
- Priority: JP2005-093840 20050329
- Main IPC: H04B1/28
- IPC: H04B1/28

Abstract:
In a communication semiconductor integrated circuit, a capacitance included in a filter on the output side of a mixer circuit is reduced without requiring the cutoff frequency of the filter to be changed. A Gilbert cell circuit is used as a mixer circuit which combines, for downconversion, a reception signal and a local oscillator signal. A low-pass filter for removing unwanted waves from output is composed of load resistors of upper stage differential transistors and a capacitive element provided between differential output terminals. The resistances of the load resistors are increased, and a current circuit for applying a current to emitters or collectors of the upper stage differential transistors is provided, so that a current to make up for a decrease in current amount attributable to the increase in load resistance can be applied from the current circuit to lower stage differential transistors.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090143043A1 SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT Public/Granted day:2009-06-04
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