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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 23, 2004
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Nortel Networks Limited, St. Laurent, CA;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/68 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/68 ;
Abstract
A low noise amplifier (LNA) in a LNA arrangement is selectively bypassed, without detracting from the performance of the LNA arrangement when it is not bypassed, by selecting components of an input signal which are reflected at the input of the LNA. These reflected signal components can be increased, when the LNA is bypassed, by interrupting a supply voltage to the LNA and/or shunting the input of the LNA to ground. The arrangement can be a balanced LNA arrangement, using two LNAs and two quadrature couplers, or it can be an unbalanced LNA arrangement.