Up/down conversion circuitry for radio transceiver

Details Up/down conversion circuitry for radio transceiver Up/down conversion circuitry for radio transceiver

2008-07-01

2008-07-01

Ha, Dac V. (Department: 2611)

Pulse or digital communications

Receivers

Angle modulation

C375S261000, C375S340000, C455S154100, C455S165100, C455S189100, C455S190100, C455S323000, C329S308000, C329S324000, C329S359000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07394874

ABSTRACT:
A multi-channel RF receiver uses an image rejection mixer (e.g. double quadrature mixer) in the IF down conversion stage for image side band rejection (whereby use of an IF narrow band filter for image rejection may be omitted if desired) and comprises a simplified frequency synthesizer which generates both a “wandering” IF oscillator frequency and an RF oscillator frequency for the up/down conversion stages (being, for down conversion, from RF to IF and from IF to base band. The IF used for a particular RF carrier (channel) is selected so as to be both an integer (N) sub-harmonic of that RF carrier and within the operating frequency band of the image rejection mixer. Advantageously, the synthesizer comprises only one loop and one VCO, wherein the IF oscillator signal is produced from the RF oscillator signal by means of a frequency divider.

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