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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 26, 1997
Filed:
Jan. 27, 1993
Douglas D Tang, Chelmsford, MA (US);
GTE Laboratories Incorporated, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A frequency hopping synthesizer is constructed from two FET-based multiplier circuits each responsive to a carrier input signal and a modulation signal to produce respective output signals which are in-phase combined to provide a frequency-shifted signal. The multiplier circuits each comprise two dual-gate field effect transistor (FET) amplifiers which are electrically balanced to suppress unmodulated carrier components so that only the modulated carrier signal appears. The respective carrier input signals and modulation signals are in quadrature phase relationship. A direct digital synthesizer controllably generates signal components which serve as the modulation signals for the multiplier circuits.