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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 12, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 09, 2001
Abolfazl Khosrowbeygi, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Petrus M. Stroet, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
A power mixer architecture for a transmitter chip is disclosed. The power mixer architecture is a mixing stage including one or more upper trees, and one or more lower trees. Each lower tree is selectively activated to receive current biasing signals, and current intermediate frequency signals. Upon receipt, the activated lower tree activates a corresponding upper tree to receive one or more amplified current intermediate frequency signals from the lower tree. In conjunction with a reception of voltage local oscillating signals, the upper tree provides voltage radio frequency signals. The gain of the lower tree is designed to be constant over any variance in a temperature, supply voltage or processing performance of the transmitter chip.