Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Transmitter diversity with a passive mixer network
- Patent Title (中): 无源混频器网络的发射机分集
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Application No.: US13897326Application Date: 2013-05-17
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Publication No.: US09054762B2Publication Date: 2015-06-09
- Inventor: Ahmad Mirzaei , Mohyee Salahelden Mikhemar , Meng-An Pan , Rahul Magoon
- Applicant: Broadcom Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee: Broadcom Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: McDermott Will & Emery LLP
- Main IPC: H04L27/00
- IPC: H04L27/00 ; H04B7/06

Abstract:
A transmitter circuit with a passive mixer network includes a first outbound signal path configured to carry a first outbound signal. The transmitter circuit includes a second outbound signal path configured to carry a second outbound signal. The transmitter circuit includes N passive mixers coupled to the first and second outbound signal paths and configured to up-convert the first and second outbound signals from a first frequency to a second frequency based on a clock cycle, where N is a positive even integer. The first and second outbound signals are passed through the N passive mixers during each phase of 2*N phases in the clock cycle. The transmitter circuit also includes N radio frequency signal paths coupled to an output of respective ones of the N passive mixers and configured to receive the first and second outbound signals in the second frequency during each phase of the clock cycle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140321576A1 TRANSMITTER DIVERSITY WITH A PASSIVE MIXER NETWORK Public/Granted day:2014-10-30
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