RF receiving apparatus and method for removing leakage component of received signal using local signal

• US 20070117511A1
• Filed: 05/01/2006
• Published: 05/24/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 11/18/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Heung, Kwon, Ick
• Granted Patent: US 7,689,170 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/63.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver

Abstract

A radio frequency (RF) receiver and receiving method are provided which can remove a leakage component from a received signal by using a local signal. In the RF receiver, a noise removing unit controls a gain and a phase of a local signal LOI according to a phase THETA and a gain AMPTD detected in a MODEM, estimates a signal V_cal corresponding to a noise component introduced into a received RF signal RXIN, and removes the estimated signal V_cal from the received RF signal RXIN. In this manner, a clean RF signal RXO, which does not include a noise component, is frequency-down converted in a receiving unit.

Claims

1. A radio frequency (RF) receiver comprising:

a noise removing unit that estimates a noise signal that is introduced into a received signal by controlling a gain and a phase of a local signal according to a phase signal and a gain signal, said noise removing unit removing the noise signal that is estimated, from the received signal; and

a receiving unit that performs a frequency-down conversion of the received signal in which the noise signal that is estimated is removed using at least one of the local signal and a Q signal of the local signal,

wherein the phase signal and the gain signal are generated from a phase value and an amplitude value of the received signal that is down-converted in the receiving unit respectively and fed back to the noise removing unit.

2. The RF receiver of claim 1, wherein the noise removing unit comprises:

a phase correction circuit that generates a phase controlled local signal in which the phase of the local signal is controlled according to the phase signal; and

an amplitude correction circuit that generates the estimated noise signal, which is a signal in which a gain of the phase controlled local signal is controlled, according to the gain signal and the phase controlled local signal, and

the estimated noise signal is removed from the received signal by a current difference between the received signal and the noise signal that is estimated.

3. The RF receiver of claim 2, wherein the phase correction circuit controls the phase of the local signal by controlling transconductance of a transistor according to the phase signal that is generated.

4. The RF receiver of claim 3, wherein the phase signal is a digital value.

5. The RF receiver of claim 2, wherein the amplitude correction circuit controls an amplitude of the phase controlled local signal by controlling transconductance of a transistor according to the gain signal and the phase controlled local signal which are generated.

6. The RF receiver of claim 5, wherein the gain signal is a digital value.

7. The RF receiver of claim 1, wherein the noise removing unit estimates a first set of differential signals of the noise signal, from a second set of differential signals of the received signal and a third set of differential signals of the local signal.

8. The RF receiver of claim 2, wherein:

the phase correction circuit comprises a first metal-oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), a second MOSFET and a third MOSFET, which are connected in series between a first power terminal and a second power terminal of a power source, and a capacitor that is connected between a source and a drain of the first MOSFET,

a gate of the first MOSFET is connected to the first power terminal,

a gate of the second MOSFET receives the local signal,

a gate of the third MOSFET receives the phase signal, and

the phase controlled local signal is output to a node that connects the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET.

9. The RF receiver of claim 8, wherein the first MOSFET is a different channel type relative to a channel type of the second MOSFET and the third MOSFET.

10. The RF receiver of claim 2, wherein:

the amplitude correction circuit comprises a first MOSFET and a second MOSFET which are connected in series between a power terminal of a power source and a node that connects one electrode of a load circuit and one electrode of a transistor that receives the received signal,

a gate of the first MOSFET receives the phase controlled local signal,

a gate of the second MOSFET receives the gain signal, and

a signal in which the estimated noise signal is removed from the received signal is output to a node that connects the load circuit and the first MOSFET.

11. A radio frequency (RF) receiving method comprising:

estimating a noise signal that is introduced into a received signal by controlling a gain and a phase of a local signal according to a phase signal and a gain signal;

removing the noise signal that is estimated from the received signal;

frequency-down converting the received signal in which the noise signal that is estimated is removed using at least one of the local signal and a Q signal of the local signal; and

generating and feeding back the phase signal and the gain signal from a phase value and an amplitude value of the down converted signal respectively.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the noise signal that is estimated is removed from the received signal by a current difference between the received signal and the noise signal that is estimated.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the phase of the local signal is controlled by controlling transconductance of a transistor according to the phase signal.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the phase signal is a digital value.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein a phase controlled local signal is generated in which the phase of the local signal is controlled according to the phase signal, and a gain of the phase controlled local signal is controlled by controlling transconductance of a transistor according to the gain signal and the phase controlled local signal.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the gain signal is a digital value.

17. The method of claim 11, wherein a first set of differential signals of the noise signal is estimated from a second set of differential signals of the received signal and a third set of differential signals of the local signal.

18. The method of claim 11, wherein the RF receiving method is utilized in a transceiver in which a noise component of a signal that is transmitted is introduced into the received signal by a directional coupler for transmitting and receiving RF signals.

19. A computer readable recording medium storing a program for implementing a radio frequency (RF) receiving method, the method comprising:

estimating a noise signal that is introduced into a received signal by controlling a gain and a phase of a local signal according to a phase signal and a gain signal;

removing the noise signal that is estimated from the received signal;

frequency-down converting the received signal in which the noise signal that is estimated is removed using at least one of the local signal and a Q signal of the local signal; and

generating and feeding back the phase signal and the gain signal from a phase value and an amplitude value of the frequency-down converted signal respectively.

20. A transceiver comprising:

a directional coupler that couples transmission and reception of radio frequency (RF) signal to an antenna; and

an RF receiver comprising a noise removing unit that estimates a noise signal that is introduced into a received signal by controlling a gain and a phase of a local signal according to a phase signal and a gain signal, said noise removing unit removing the noise signal that is estimated from the received signal, a receiving unit that performs a frequency-down conversion of the received signal in which the noise signal that is estimated is removed using at least one of the local signal and a Q signal of the local signal,

wherein a noise signal of a transmitting signal is introduced into the received signal from the directional coupler,

wherein the phase signal and the gain signal are generated from a phase value and an amplitude value of the received signal that is down converted respectively in the receiving unit and fed back to the noise removing unit.