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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 20, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 20, 2017
Avago Technologies General Ip (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SG;
Andrew Robert Adams, Stanmore, AU;
Ali Afsahi, San Diego, CA (US);
Arya Reza Behzad, Los Altos, CA (US);
Keith Andrews Carter, Poway, CA (US);
Hooman Darabi, Laguna Niguel, CA (US);
Rohit V. Gaikwad, San Diego, CA (US);
Dandan Li, San Diego, CA (US);
Jianping Peng, Cupertino, CA (US);
Jacob Jude Rael, Lake Forest, CA (US);
Tirdad Sowlati, Irvine, CA (US);
Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) PTE. LTD., Singapore, SG;
Abstract
A wireless communication device includes a first circuit including a baseband circuit and a radio circuit, and at least one frontend module (FEM) remote from the first circuit and placed in close proximity to and coupled to at least one radio-frequency (RF) antenna. The FEM is coupled to the first circuit via interface circuitry. An FEM comprises a frontend (FE) circuit including one or more low-noise amplifiers (LNAs), one or more power amplifiers (PAs), and at least one of a multi-pole switch and a multiplexer. The multi-pole switch and the multiplexer being implemented on a first side of the FEM coupled to the interface circuitry. The interface circuitry includes at least some of filters, splitters, multi-pole switches, and multiplexers to reduce a count of interconnect routes to the at least one FEM.