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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2008
Chad E. Wilson, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey K. Hunter, Olathe, KS (US);
Palaniappan Meiyappan, Bellevue, WA (US);
E. F. Charles Laberge, Towson, MD (US);
Chad E. Wilson, Sammamish, WA (US);
Jeffrey K. Hunter, Olathe, KS (US);
Palaniappan Meiyappan, Bellevue, WA (US);
E. F. Charles LaBerge, Towson, MD (US);
Honeywell International Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
A transceiver apparatus comprising a software-definable-radio-transceiver architecture. The transceiver apparatus comprises at least one up-conversion path including at least one configurable micro-electro-mechanical-system (MEMS) transmit filter communicatively coupled to transmit output from a digital-to-analog converter to an antenna, and at least one down-conversion path including at least one configurable-MEMS-receive filter communicatively coupled to transmit signals received from the antenna to an analog-to-digital converter. The at least one configurable-MEMS-transmit filter prevents interference on the up-conversion path from signals transmitted from the antenna. The at least one configurable-MEMS-receive filter prevents interference on the down-conversion path from signals transmitted to the antenna. A plurality of upconversion and downconversion paths can operate simultaneously and on different channel frequencies.