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7627291 Integrated circuit having a routing element selectively operable to function as an antenna  
An integrated circuit operable to wirelessly communicate with other devices by utilizing a radio transceiver and a routing element is disclosed. The routing element is operable to route a signal...
7623839 Semiconductor integrated circuit  
A semiconductor integrated circuit including: a mixer circuit which includes a first MOS transistor a second MOS transistor; a third MOS transistor whose drain is connected to a first potential,...
7623837 Receiver for an integrated heterodyne communication system including BAW-type resonators  
A heterodyne receiving circuit for a digital communication system including a first band pass filter receiving a signal from an antenna, an amplifying circuit and a second narrow band pass filter...
7620382 Frequency converter capable of preventing level of intermediate frequency signal from lowering due to rise in temperature  
There is provided a bias power supply for setting a collector bias current of a mixer transistor and a collector bias current of an oscillation transistor. When a control voltage is equal to or...
7616937 Subharmonic mixer capable of reducing noise and enhancing gain and linearlty  
A subharmonic mixer, including an amplification unit for amplifying an input signal using at least one pair of amplification devices connected in parallel and a mixing unit for mixing the amplified...
7616934 Switched impedance transformer for semiconductor circuits  
A method of providing an impedance match for an integrated semiconductor circuit to other microwave elements is provided by allowing the selection of one of a plurality of impedance matching ratios...
7613442 Switch circuit and method of switching radio frequency signals  
A novel RF switch circuit and method for switching RF signals is described. The RF switch circuit is fabricated in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The RF switch includes pairs of switching...
7609792 Multiple-input multiple-output multichip transceiver with correlated clock signals  
A multichip transceiver operates as part of a multiple-input multiple-output communication system. First receiver circuitry on a first integrated circuit processes radio-frequency (RF) signals...
7606546 Variable frequency clock generator for synchronizing data rates between clock domains in radio frequency wireless communication systems  
A system, method and system are disclosed for using a variable frequency clock generator to synchronize an average data rate over intervals of time in a variable clock domain to make it equal to a...
7606323 Carrier leak reduction transmitter circuit  
A transmitter circuit has two mixers that modulate a carrier wave according to an input signal, outputs a signal having information in a phase and an amplitude, detects a DC offset in each of the...
7599677 Charge pump circuit having switches  
A charge pump circuit that supplies current to an offset current of an output signal for an oscillating circuit is disclosed. The charge pump circuit includes a first switch and a second switch....
7593708 Methods of operating electronic devices, and methods of providing electronic devices  
Some embodiments include a method disposing an integrated circuit die within a housing, the integrated circuit die having integrated circuitry formed thereon, the integrated circuitry including...
7593700 Controllable radio frequency stage with variable gain/attenuation, in particular incorporated into the transmission chain of a cellular mobile telephone, and corresponding control method  
A radio frequency stage comprises an analog multiplier cell, and an analog current routing cell coupled thereto. The analog multiplier cell includes an input for receiving an input current having a...
7587187 Ultra wide band, differential input/output, high frequency active mixer in an integrated circuit  
A wideband mixer includes a core mixer having input terminals and output terminals for, respectively, receiving differential input signals and providing amplified differential output signals. A...
7583946 Wireless communication system and method using clock swapping during image rejection calibration  
A wireless communication receiver is disclosed that operates in a test mode to determine image correction information that is used to suppress undesired image signals when the receiver switches to...
7583212 Reduced noise radio frequency integrated circuit  
A radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) includes a digital to analog converter, an analog to digital converter, and a low noise amplifier. The digital to analog converter (DAC) is operably...
7580694 Contactless integrated circuit with high-efficiency electrical power supply circuit  
A circuit and method for supplying an electronic circuit with a direct supply voltage using high frequency antenna signals. The method includes producing a primary direct voltage equal to a...
7580693 Passive reflection mixer  
In one aspect, a mixer that provides improved isolation between an input oscillator and a mixing cell. In another aspect, a mixer that includes circuitry operative to shape an input signal provided...
7570936 Sub-harmonically pumped mixer  
A mixing circuit is described in connection with various embodiments.
7567818 Mobile device with wide-angle optics and a radiation sensor  
The invention comprises a mobile device controlled by moving it, for example, by tilting. The mobile device is equipped with wide-angle optics and with a radiation sensor detecting either visible...
7567784 Tuner, broadcast signal processing apparatus comprising the same, and broadcast signal processing method  
A tuner, a broadcast signal processing apparatus and method, which satisfy reception sensitivity of both terrestrial and cable televisions, when selecting a broadcast signal through a single...
7565128 High performance low noise amplifier  
A signal processing circuit is proposed, which is intended to receive a pair of input signals Sp and Sn in phase opposition on two input terminals and to provide two pairs of output currents SIp...
7565116 High frequency module  
A high frequency module comprises a layered substrate. Inside the layered substrate, a reception diplexer for processing reception signals and a transmission diplexer for processing transmission...
7564801 Router reachability verification in IPv6 networks  
A method of router reachability verification for hosts in computer networks such as IPv6 networks is presented where hosts transmit router solicitations including information identifying a current...
7561866 RFID tags with power rectifiers that have bias  
A system and method for generating a rectified signal in a RFID tag. An alternating signal is received by the RFID tag, and a first phase of the alternating signal is coupled to a gate and to a...
7555263 Adaptive radio transceiver  
An exemplary embodiment of the present invention described and shown in the specification and drawings is a transceiver with a receiver, a transmitter, a local oscillator (LO) generator, a...
7551909 CMOS transceiver with dual current path VCO  
A dual current path voltage controlled oscillator exhibits both the seamless frequency acquisition and uniform VCO gain reduction while preserving an original operating range and phase locked loop...
7551901 Linear high powered integrated circuit amplifier  
A linear high powered integrated circuit amplifier includes a plurality of power amplifiers, balanced integrated circuit coupling, and a combining circuit. The balanced integrated circuit coupling...
7548734 Multi-band RF receiver  
A multi-band receiver is disclosed. The multi-band receiver includes a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a mixer. The LNA includes a switched receiving circuit, a loading circuit, and a switching...
7539471 Method and apparatus to provide variable gain in a radio receiver front end  
An RF receiver front end includes a variable gain low noise amplifier and/or a variable gain mixer to provide gain variability in the receiver. This gain variability may be used during, for...
7538741 Impedance matched passive radio frequency transmit/receive switch  
A Radio Frequency (RF) structure services an antenna having a characteristic impedance and includes a differential Power Amplifier (PA), a differential Low Noise Amplifier (LNA), and a balun...
7536166 Monolithically integrated circuit  
A monolithically integrated circuit, particularly an integrated circuit for radio frequency power applications, has a transistor ( 11; 51 ), preferably a power LDMOS transistor, and a spiral...
7536165 Offset correction for down-conversion mixers  
A direct conversion receiver includes a detector that provides a measure of bias offset that is caused by component mismatches in the direct conversion mixer, and a corrective network that reduces...
7532055 CMOS-based receiver for communications applications  
A receiver and receiver front end having multiple independent differential inputs, multiple independent differential low-noise amplifiers, and two sets of double-balanced IQ mixers. The...
7529532 ***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Switch circuit and method of switching radio frequency signals
 
A novel RF switch circuit and method for switching RF signals is described. The RF switch circuit is fabricated in a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. The RF switch includes pairs of switching...
7529529 Low noise, high-linearity RF front end receiver  
An architecture for a receiver of a wireless device having a Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) transconductor to receive a signal from an antenna, a mixer meshed with the LNA transconductor, and an...
7526245 Method and system for single chip satellite set-top box system  
Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in an single chip satellite set-top box solution that comprises demodulation, decoding and audio/video display functions integrated within a single...
7522902 Adaptive DC offset compensation apparatus and method thereof  
Provided are a direct current (DC) offset compensation apparatus and a method thereof. A DC offset compensation apparatus comprises an offset detection block detecting a DC offset, an offset...
7521981 Mixer with carrier leakage calibration  
A mixer circuit. The mixer circuit comprises a double-balanced mixer and a carrier-leakage calibration cell. The double-balanced mixer has first and second input pairs whereby the first input pair...
7519387 Apparatus and method for wireless coupling of integrated circuit chips  
In order to overcome the limitation of the integrated circuit chip inter-connectability resulting from the physical dimensions of the leads, a radio frequency transmitter and/or a radio frequency...
7519335 Digital modulation signal mixer  
The present invention includes a mixer circuit integrating a voltage-to-currrent conversion in the same stage. A mixer device 20 of a transmission system comprises a pair of transistors 41 and ...
7519334 ***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Multi-mode I/O circuitry supporting low interference signaling schemes for high speed digital interfaces
 
A multi-mode I/O circuit or cell ( 10 ) is provided for transmitting and receiving data between ICs, where each IC contains at least one of the I/O circuits. Each data link includes transmitter...
7515891 Programmable gain amplifier (PGA) with AGC in receiver section  
A method and apparatus for dynamically controlling a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) to provide a plurality of gain steps thereby providing automatic gain control (AGC) in a receiver intermediate...
7515879 Radio frequency circuit module  
An RF circuit module, in which a power amplifier and a transceiver are united, with reduced interference between its electronic circuit blocks, downsized and still having high performance, and with...
7514981 Mixer circuit  
A mixer in a smaller signal differential model includes a load circuit, a switch quad, and a transconductor. The switch quad further including a first current path and a second current path is...
7512395 Receiver and integrated AM-FM/IQ demodulators for gigabit-rate data detection  
This disclosure addresses providing gigabit-rate data transmission over wireless radio links, using carrier frequencies in the millimeter-wave range (>30 GHz). More specifically, a circuit for...
7512394 Wideband up-conversion mixer  
An up-conversion mixer includes a first and a second hybrid couplers and a first and a second traveling-wave mixers is disclosed. The first hybrid coupler receives an input intermediate frequency...
7511557 Quadrature mixer circuit and RF communication semiconductor integrated circuit  
A quadrature mixer circuit and an RF communication semiconductor integrated circuit capable of suppressing variations in secondary distortion while reducing the current consumption are provided. In...
7509112 Wideband image rejection mixer  
An image rejection mixer including a first and a second hybrid couplers and a first and a second traveling-wave mixers is disclosed. The first hybrid coupler divides an input radio frequency (RF)...
7509111 Integrated circuit having a mixer circuit  
Integrated circuit including a mixer circuit, which has a first circuit section, a second circuit section, and a transformer. The first circuit section has two radiofrequency terminals. The second...