Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Amplifier with integrated filter
- Patent Title (中): 带集成滤波器的放大器
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Application No.: US13543532Application Date: 2012-07-06
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Publication No.: US08665028B2Publication Date: 2014-03-04
- Inventor: Tae Wook Kim , Guy Klemens , Kenneth Charles Barnett , Susanta Sengupta , Gurkanwal Singh Sahota
- Applicant: Tae Wook Kim , Guy Klemens , Kenneth Charles Barnett , Susanta Sengupta , Gurkanwal Singh Sahota
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALOCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALOCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agent Ramin Mobarhan
- Main IPC: H03F3/04
- IPC: H03F3/04

Abstract:
An amplifier with integrated filter (e.g., an LNA) is described. In one design, the amplifier may include a gain stage, a filter stage, and a buffer stage. The gain stage may provide signal amplification for an input signal. The filter stage may provide filtering for the input signal. The buffer stage may buffer a filtered signal from the filter stage. The amplifier may further include a second filter stage and a second buffer stage. The second filter stage may provide additional filtering for the input signal. The second buffer stage may buffer a second filtered signal from the second filter stage. All of the stages may be stacked and coupled between a supply voltage and circuit ground. The filter stage(s) may implement an elliptical lowpass filter. Each filter stage may include an inductor and a capacitor coupled in parallel and forming a resonator tank to attenuate interfering signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120274403A1 AMPLIFIER WITH INTEGRATED FILTER Public/Granted day:2012-11-01
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