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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2016
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Venumadhav Bhagavatula, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Siuchuang Ivan Lu, San Jose, CA (US);
Sang Won Son, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, , KR;
Abstract
An apparatus and a method. The apparatus includes passive mixers, wherein each of the passive mixers includes a first input for receiving BB, a second input for receiving, a third input for receiving BB, a fourth input for receiving, a fifth input for receiving a first clock signal with a unique phase shift within one of the passive mixers, a sixth input for receiving a second clock signal with a unique phase shift within one of the passive mixers, a seventh input for receiving a third clock signal with a unique phase shift within one of the passive mixers, an eighth input for receiving a fourth clock signal with a unique phase shift within one of the passive mixers, and at least one output; and a voltage-domain vector summation array connected to the output of each of the passive mixers.