Telecommunications – Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter – Frequency modifying or conversion
Patent
1992-12-03
1994-08-16
Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
Telecommunications
Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter
Frequency modifying or conversion
455313, 455318, 307353, H04B 128, H03K 5159
Patent
active
053394593
ABSTRACT:
A sample and hold circuit is formed within an integrated circuit and has a small, substantially linear hold capacitance. The circuit includes a sampling switch, a hold capacitor, and a buffer amplifier. The buffer amplifier includes a common drain FET and a constant current source FET. The common drain FET provides an input which couples to the hold capacitor. The constant current FET isolates the source of the common drain FET from ground. The sample and hold circuit may be used as a wide bandwidth mixer. In a radio application, a pulse generator provides a stream of pulses in which the sampling rate times an integer number equals the RF frequency minus the IF frequency. The width of the sampling pulse is less than the period of an RF signal. In an oscillator application, the sample and hold circuit operates as a mixer in a frequency multiplying phase locked loop.
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Nuckolls Carl R.
Schiltz Thomas E.
Eisenzopf Reinhard J.
Fliegel Frederick M.
Handy Robert M.
Motorola Inc.
Vo Nguyen
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