Stacked double balanced mixer circuit

WJ Grandfield - US Patent 5,448,772, 1995 - Google Patents
Accordingly, in a first aspect of the present invention, a stacked double balanced mixer
includes a double bal anced mixer and a first cross coupled differential mixer. The double …

Balanced mixer circuit with improved linearity

JP Heck - US Patent 5,548,840, 1996 - Google Patents
A balanced mixer circuit includes a first balanced input (RF (+) and RF (-)), a second
balanced input (LO (+) and LO (-), and a balanced output (OUT+ and OUT-). The balanced …

Doubly balanced mixer with optimized dynamic range

DH Steinbrecher - US Patent 4,230,956, 1980 - Google Patents
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention generally relates to the art of
controlling diode switches by an rf signal and, more speci? cally, to circuits, such as mixers …

Low-noise mixer and method

SA Tiller - US Patent 6,529,721, 2003 - Google Patents
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION A low noise double-balanced mixer circuit is provided that,
in its downconversion embodiment, receives a single ended RF signal and differentially …

Double balance differential active ring mixer with current shared active input balun

PR Andrys, PH Thompson - US Patent 6,057,714, 2000 - Google Patents
[57] ABSTRACT A frequency conversion or synthesis circuit including a double balance
differential active ring mixer With a current shared active radio frequency (RF) input balun …

Active commutated double balanced mixer

RD Wyse - US Patent 6,230,001, 2001 - Google Patents
A transistor commuted double balanced mixer that uses a Gilbert cell mixer quad transistor
core. The RF input differential pair is deleted from the standard Gilbert cell mixer …

Mixer structure and method for using same

K Lee, DK Jeong - US Patent 6,512,408, 2003 - Google Patents
A mixer structure and method for using same in accordance with the present invention
includes a multi-phase mixer. A VCO includes a plurality of differential delay cells to output a …

Double balanced RF mixer with predetermined input impedance

B Gilbert - US Patent 5,826,182, 1998 - Google Patents
57 ABSTRACT A mixer includes a doubly-balanced mixer core, an RF input Section coupled
to the mixer core, and a biasing circuit coupled to the RF input section. The RF input section …

Mixer circuit with output stage for implementation on integrated circuit

YH Kuo - US Patent 6,510,314, 2003 - Google Patents
An output stage of a double balanced mixer having a first intermediate port and a second
intermediate port includes an operational amplifier, an impedance and first and second …

Monolithic double balanced mixer with high third order intercept point employing an active distributed balun

RM Waugh, M Kumar - US Patent 5,060,298, 1991 - Google Patents
A monolithic double balanced mixer with a high third order intercept point employs a local
oscillator signal which is applied to the input port of a first active distributed element balun …