Telecommunications – Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter – Frequency modifying or conversion
Patent
1994-11-14
1997-07-15
Eisenzopf, Reinhard J.
Telecommunications
Receiver or analog modulated signal frequency converter
Frequency modifying or conversion
455343, H04B 128
Patent
active
056493126
ABSTRACT:
A monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) downconverter for a direct broadcast satellite low noise block downconverter is comprised of a mixer that produces sum and difference frequency signals from an oscillator signal and a radio frequency (RF) signal. An intermediate frequency (IF) signal is obtained by selecting the difference signal of the sum and difference frequency signals using a low pass filter. An active load and amplifier circuit coupled to the low pass filter both provides a DC bias voltage to the mixer that is substantially insensitive to DC current and amplifies the IF signal from the low pass filter. The combined active load and amplifier circuit conserves DC power and reduces the MMiC circuit size, thus reducing the Gallium Arsenide area and therefore, the component cost.
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Eisenzopf Reinhard J.
Fujitsu Limited
Vo Nguyen
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