US Patent:
20160308551, Oct 20, 2016
Inventors:
- Detroit MI, US
CYNTHIA D. BARINGER - MALIBU CA, US
ANDREW J. MACDONALD - GROSSE POINTE PARK MI, US
MOHIUDDIN AHMED - MOORPARK CA, US
ALBERT E. COSAND - AGOURA HILLS CA, US
JAMES CHINGWEI LI - SIMI VALLEY CA, US
PETER PETRE - OAK PARK CA, US
ZHIWEI A. XU - DAVIS CA, US
YEN-CHENG KUAN - LOS ANGELES CA, US
HSUANYU PAN - LOS ANGELES CA, US
EMILIO A. SOVERO - THOUSAND OAKS CA, US
International Classification:
H03M 1/66
H04B 1/3822
H04B 1/40
H04B 1/04
H04L 1/00
Abstract:
A cellular radio architecture that includes a programmable bandpass sampling radio frequency front-end and an optimized digital baseband. The architecture includes a multiplexer having signal paths that include a bandpass filter that passes a different frequency band than the other bandpass filters and a circulator that provides signal isolation between the transmit signals and the receive signals. The architecture also includes a receiver module having a separate signal channel for each of the signal paths in the multiplexer, where each signal channel in the receiver module includes a receiver delta-sigma modulator that converts analog receive signals to a representative digital signal. The architecture further includes a transmitter module having a transmitter delta-sigma modulator for converting digital data bits to analog transmit signals, where the transmitter module includes a power amplifier and a switch for directing the transmit signals to one of the signal paths in the multiplexer.