Wireless communication device and mobile phone terminal using the same

• US 20070021080A1
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Published: 01/25/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 07/08/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Renesas Electronics Corporation
• Original Assignee: Renesas Technology Corporation (Renesas Electronics Corporation)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Satoshi, Kuriyama, Akira, Ido, Tatemi
• Application Number:
  US11/480,371
• Publication Number:
  US 20070021080A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/132
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0057 using diplexing or multiplexing filters for selecting the desired band
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/006 using switches for selecting the desired band H04B1/0057 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0064 with separate antennas for the more than one band H04B1/0053 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/0842 Weighted combining

Abstract

A multi-band multi-mode wireless communication device comprises a first antenna, a second antenna, a first transmitter circuit corresponding to the FDD system, a first receiver circuit and a second receiver circuit, a first transmitter circuit and a third receiver circuit corresponding to the TDD system, a duplexer, an SP3T switch, and a base-band signal processor. The second transmitter circuit, third receiver circuit and duplexer are connected with each other via the first antenna and the SP3T switch, the duplexer is connected to the first transmitter circuit and the first receiver circuit, and the second antenna is connected to the second receiver circuit. The received signals corresponding to the FDD system received by the first and second antennas are inputted to the base-band signal processor via the first and second receiver circuits and are then synthesized therein.

Claims

1. A wireless communication device comprising:

a first receiver circuit for inputting a received signal received by a first antenna, corresponding to the frequency division duplex (FDD) system;

a second receiver circuit for inputting a received signal received by a second antenna, corresponding to the FDD system; and

a local oscillator for supplying in common the local oscillated frequency to the first and the second receiver circuits,

wherein the received signals received by the first antenna and the second antenna are synthesized with each other to be obtained as the received signal, and

wherein the first and the second receiver circuits and the local oscillator are formed in the same semiconductor device.

2. The wireless communication device according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of the first receiver circuit and the second receiver circuit uses the direct down-conversion system.

3. The wireless communication device according to claim 1,

wherein at least one of the first receiver circuit and the second receiver circuit uses the low IF down-conversion system.

4. The wireless communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the wireless communication device corresponds to the W-CDMA.

5. The wireless communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the wireless communication device corresponds to the HSDPA system.

6. The wireless communication device according to claim 1,

wherein the wireless communication device corresponds to EV-DO system.

7. A wireless communication device by utilizing not three but two antennas for realizing a multi-band multi-mode wireless communication, the wireless communication device comprising:

a first receiver circuit applicable to a frequency division duplex communication system;

a second receiver circuit applicable to the frequency division duplex communication system; and

a third receiver circuit applicable to a wireless communication system being different from the frequency division duplex communication system.

8. The wireless communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the wireless communication system different from the wireless communication system is the time division duplex (TDD) system.

9. The wireless communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the wireless communication device includes local oscillators for supplying local frequency to the first and the second receiver circuits, and

wherein the first receiver circuit, the second receiver circuit, the third receiver circuit, and the local oscillator are formed in the same semiconductor device.

10. The wireless communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the wireless communication device is a multi-band multi-mode wireless communication device corresponding to the single-band GSM and single-band W-CDMA.

11. The wireless communication device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a first antenna;

a second antenna;

a first transmitter circuit and a first receiver circuit corresponding to the FDD system;

a second transmitter circuit and a third receiver circuit corresponding to the TDD system;

a duplexer;

one SP3T switch; and

a base-band signal processor,

wherein the first antenna, the first transmitter circuit, and the first receiver circuit are connected via the duplexer,

wherein the second antenna, the second transmitter circuit, the second receiver circuit, and the third receiver circuit are connected via the SP3T switch, and

wherein the received signals corresponding to the FDD system received by the first and second antennas are input to the base-band signal processor via the first and second receiver circuits to synthesize these signals in the base-band signal processor.

12. The wireless communication device according to claim 7, further comprising:

a second antenna;

a third antenna;

a first transmitter circuit and a first receiver circuit corresponding to the FDD system;

a second receiver circuit corresponding to the FDD system;

a second transmitter circuit and a third receiver circuit corresponding to the TDD system;

a duplexer;

an SP3T switch; and

a base-band signal processor,

wherein the second antenna and the second receiver circuit are connected,

wherein the second transmitter circuit, the third receiver circuit and the duplexer are connected via the third antenna and the SP3T switch,

wherein the duplexer is connected to the first transmitter circuit and the first receiver circuit, and

wherein the received signals corresponding to the FDD system received by the first and second antennas are input to the base-band signal processor via the first and second receiver circuits to synthesize these signals in the base-band signal processor.

13. The wireless communication device according to claim 7,

wherein the wireless communication device uses both frequency bands of a first frequency band and a second frequency band being different from the first frequency band each as at least one of a transmission frequency band and a reception frequency band,

wherein one of a plurality of receiver circuit blocks each including a variable gain amplifier and a modulator is applicable to both W-CDMA and GSM, said W-CDMA using the second frequency band and belonging to the frequency division duplex communication system, and said GSM using the second frequency hand and belonging to the wireless communication system being different from the frequency division duplex communication system, and

wherein another receiver circuit block including a variable gain amplifier and a modulator than the plurality of receiver circuit blocks is applicable to both W-CDMAs using the first frequency band and using the second frequency band, respectively.

14. The wireless communication device according to claim 13,

wherein a filter and the variable gain amplifier is used in common for GSM and W-CDMA in the second frequency band and individual demodulators are used for the GSM and W-CDMA as the demodulators.

15. The wireless communication device according to claim 13,

wherein the D/A converter and A/D converter are used in common for the W-CDMA using the first frequency band and the W-CDMA using the second frequency band.

16. The wireless communication device according to claim 13, further comprising:

a wireless communication device having the diversity receiving function comprising a pair of transmitter/receiver circuit block and receiver circuit block for the W-CDMA using the first frequency band;

a wireless communication device having the diversity receiving function comprising a pair of transmitter/receiver circuit block and receiver circuit block for the W-CDMA using the second frequency band;

a transmitter circuit block for the GSM using the second frequency band and a third frequency band being different from each of the first and second frequency bands;

a receiver circuit block for the GSM using the second frequency band; and

another receiver circuit block for the GSM using the third frequency band than the receiver circuit block for the GSM using the second frequency band.

17. A cellular phone terminal comprising:

two antennas;

a first receiver circuit and a second receiver circuit corresponding to the FDD system;

a third receiver circuit for wireless communication system different from the FDD system;

a switch for changing over the connecting state between the two antennas and the receiver circuit; and

a base-band signal processor,

wherein the base-band signal processor has the function to control switching of the switch in accordance with the communication system.

18. A cellular phone terminal according to claim 17, further comprising:

a front-end unit;

a demodulator; and

a base-band signal processor,

wherein the front-end unit includes a passive component module mainly comprising a filter and a duplexer, and a power amplifier module mainly constituted with power amplifier,

wherein the modulator/demodulator unit includes a modulator/demodulator module mainly comprising a modulator, a demodulator, and a local oscillator, and

wherein the front-end unit and the modulator/demodulator unit are formed on an integrated module.

19. The cellular phone terminal according to claim 17,

wherein the base-band signal processor has the function to synthesize the received signals corresponding to the FDD system received by the two antennas.

20. The cellular phone terminal according to claim 17, further comprising:

a passive component module;

a power amplifier module;

a modulator module;

a demodulator module; and

a base-band signal processor,

wherein the passive component module, the power amplifier module, the modulator module, the demodulator module, and the base-band signal processor are formed on the integrated module.