Telecommunications – Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter – Frequency modifying or conversion
Patent
1984-06-21
1986-04-01
Ng, Jin F.
Telecommunications
Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter
Frequency modifying or conversion
455197, 455266, 455340, 455260, 331 31, H04B 126
Patent
active
045802890
ABSTRACT:
A radio receiver from antenna to detector designed to be realized substantially on an integrated-circuit chip comprises a single tunable oscillator and a plurality of mixers. An input signal from an antenna is connected as an input to a first mixer and mixed with a signal derived from the oscillator. The signal may be taken directly, may be multiplied to a desired level or may be divided to a desired level. A particular output from the first mixer is selected by a first tunable filter. The output of the first tunable filter is taken as an input to a second mixer where it is mixed with a second signal derived from the oscillator. The process of mixing and application of the mixed signal to a tunable filter to select a desired frequency is continued as needed until the signal is reduced to a desired intermediate frequency range where it is amplified as needed to a level sufficient to drive a discriminator. Successive mixers receive, as inputs, signals that are derived by multiplication from the oscillator and that are in ratios to each other of integers of the order of two to eight. The center frequency of each of the tunable filters changes as different crystals or synthesized base frequencies are selected. This variation continues through the last intermediate frequency.
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Downey Joseph T.
McKinley Martin J.
Motorola Inc.
Ng Jin F.
Roney Edward M.
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