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Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018

Filed:

May. 15, 2017
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Tzung-I Lee, San Jose, CA (US);

Omar Fawazhashim Zakaria, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Cheol Su Kim, San Jose, CA (US);

Varadarajan Gopalakrishnan, Cupertino, CA (US);

In Chul Hyun, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H04W 52/52 (2009.01); H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/0475 (2013.01); H04B 1/0092 (2013.01); H04W 52/52 (2013.01); H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technology for a bi-directional radio frequency front-end (RFFE) architecture with high selectivity performance is described. One RFFE has a first mixer that receives a LO signal from the LO circuit and a transmit (TX) signal, having a first frequency, from a transmitter and produces a down-converted TX signal for channel bandwidth filtering, the TX signal having a second frequency that is lower than the first frequency. A programmable filter circuit, in response to a selection signal, filters the down-converted TX signal according to a selected channel bandwidth. The second mixer receives the LO signal from the LO circuit and a channel-filtered TX signal from the programmable filter circuit and produces an up-converted TX signal having the first frequency. The power amplifier amplifies the up-converted TX signal to produce an output TX signal to cause an antenna to radiate electromagnetic energy in the selected channel bandwidth.


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