Marvell International Limited

Marvellworld Trade Ltd.

Marco Sosio

Rinaldo Castello

Antonio Liscidini

Gabriele Gandolfi

Vittorio Colonna

Daniele Ottini

Paolo Rossi

Ivan Fabiano

Alberto Pirola

Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a receiver comprising a class AB common-gate transformer-based low noise transconductance amplifier (LNT) configured to receive an electromagnetic signal, a passive resonant mixer electrically connected to (i) an output port of the class AB common-gate transformer-based LNT and (ii) a local oscillator. The passive resonant mixer can be configured to reject at least one harmonic of the local oscillator. The receiver also comprises a base-band module electrically connected to an output port of the passive resonant mixer.

Analog front end receivers with resonant mixer configured to reject local oscillator harmonics

An analog to digital converter including a low pass filter element, a quantizer, and a digital to analog converter provide in a feedback path. The low pass filter element is configured to filter an analog input signal. The quantizer is configured to receive an analog output signal that is based on the filtered analog input signal and convert the analog output signal to a digital output signal. The digital to analog converter is configured to generate an analog feedback signal based on the digital output signal and selectively inject or absorb current associated with the feedback path to reduce noise associated with the digital to analog converter. The analog feedback signal is combined with the analog input signal at an input of the low pass filter element.

Analog to digital converter with noise reducing feedback path

Devices and methods capable of correcting for distortion are disclosed. For example, a method for compensating for non-idealities in a frequency-conversion circuit having a high-frequency input side separated from a baseband side by a passive mixer is presented. The method includes injecting a plurality of calibration signals in the baseband side to determine cross-talk between an In-phase (I) portion of the baseband side and a Quadrature (Q) portion of the baseband side to produce a first measurement &#x393;and a second measurement &#x393;, synthesizing a crosstalk compensation filter g(&#x3c9;) based on the first measurement &#x393;and the second measurement &#x393;, and applying the crosstalk compensation filter g(&#x3c9;) to an output of the frequency-conversion circuit.

Baseband filter calibration methods and systems

A filtering analog to digital converter (ADC) includes an integrator receiving at its input an analog input signal. A filtering capacitor at the input of the integrator filters out a large portion of out-of-band interferers in the analog input signal. The integrator produces an output that is quantized to produce a digital output. A feedback path between the quantizer output and the integrator input includes a digital to analog converter (DAC).

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