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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 19, 2008
Filed:
Mar. 31, 2005
Applicants:
Ray Rosik, San Diego, CA (US);
Mark Santini, San Diego, CA (US);
Weinan Gao, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
Conexant Systems, Inc., Newport Beach, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/26 (2006.01); H03K 17/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A mixer for use in a transceiver comprises an LO switching pair and a folded transconductor. The mixer can be used as an upconversion or down conversion mixer and provides increased headroom and linearity, while still reducing current consumption. The mixer can be configured for differential inputs and outputs and the folded transconductor can comprises a MOSFET differential pair.