Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices – circuits – and – External effect – Temperature
Reexamination Certificate
1999-11-12
2003-01-07
Le, Dinh T. (Department: 2816)
Miscellaneous active electrical nonlinear devices, circuits, and
External effect
Temperature
C327S552000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06504420
ABSTRACT:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION
This application relates generally to receiver circuits and, in particular to a CATV tuner with a frequency plan and architecture that allows the entire receiver, including the filters, to be integrated onto a single integrated circuit.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
Radio receivers, or tuners, are widely used in applications requiring the reception of electromagnetic energy. Applications can include broadcast receivers such as radio and television, set top boxes for cable television, receivers in local area networks, test and measurement equipment, radar receivers, air traffic control receivers, and microwave communication links among others. Transmission of the electromagnetic energy may be over a transmission line or by electromagnetic radio waves.
The design of a receiver is one of the most complex design tasks in electrical engineering. In the current state of the art, there are many design criteria that must be considered to produce a working radio receiver. Tradeoffs in the design's performance are often utilized to achieve a given objective. There are a multitude of performance characteristics that must be considered in designing the receiver. However, certain performance characteristics are common to all receivers. Distortion and noise are two such parameters. The process of capturing the signal creates distortion that must be accounted for in the design of the radio receiver. Once a radio signal is captured, the noise surrounding the received signal in the receiver must be considered. Radio signals are often extremely weak and if noise is present in the circuit, the signal, even though satisfactorily received, can be easily lost in this noise floor. The current state of the art in receiver design is often directed to overcoming these receiver limitations in a cost effective manner.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
There is therefore provided in a present embodiment of the invention an inductor Q compensation circuit that maintains a constant Q over temperature variations.
An embodiment of the invention utilizes a transistor having a resistance that is made to decrease over temperature cascaded in series with a spiral inductor that has a resistance that increases over temperature associated with it. The resistance tends to be maintained at a constant value thus maintaining a constant Q. A control circuit provides a control signal controlling the drain to source resistance of the transistor such that its resistance is caused to decrease with increasing temperature.
Many of the attendant features of this invention will be more readily appreciated as the same becomes better understood by reference to the following detailed description considered in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which like reference symbols designate like parts throughout.
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Bult Klaas
Carr Frank
Vorenkamp Pieter
Broadcom Corporation
Le Dinh T.
Sterne Kessler Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
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