Motorola Corporation

Pineabrim McCullough, Jr

Hugh Robert Malone

A digital adjustable phase modulator and method includes a first circuit path and a second circuit path for a signal. A fixed bias voltage is coupled to the first circuit path and to the second circuit path which respectively include first and second active variable reactance components such as varactor diodes. The first circuit path and the second circuit path further include chip capacitors to provide a DC block for first and second MMIC single pole double throw switches, and transmission lines for the signal have a length of one-fourth of a wavelength of the signal to provide an RF short. A control voltage is coupled to the first and second varactor diodes such that the capacitances across the first and second varactor diodes changes, resulting in a phase difference between the signal traversing the first circuit path relative to the signal traversing the second circuit path.

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Tempe, AZ, United States of America

Pineabrim McCullough, Jr