Poly-phase network with resonant circuit bandpass shaping

• US 6,836,180 B1
• Filed: 06/23/2003
• Issued: 12/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cufer Asset Ltd LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC), Sanyo Semiconductor Company Limited (ON Semiconductor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: M2 Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Kwok, Sai
• Primary Examiner(s): Lee, Dinh T.
• Application Number:
  US10/602,364
• Publication Number:
  US 20040257152A1
• Time in Patent Office: 554 Days
• Field of Search: 327/552-559
• US Class Current: 327/552
• CPC Class Codes: H03B 27/00 Generation of oscillations providing a plurality of outputs of the same frequency but differing in phase, other than merely two anti-phase outputs
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 11/22 providing two or more phase shifted output signals, e.g. n-phase output

Abstract

An R-C polyphase network that provides bandpass shaping and amplification to maintain the quadrature phase output is provided. In one implementation, a polyphase device comprises two transistors each having a collector, a base and an emitter. Positive and negative components of an input signal are coupled to a respective base of the transistors, the transistors adapted to drive the R-C polyphase network. Inputs of the R-C polyphase network are coupled to the collectors of the transistors. The R-C polyphase network includes an inductor and has first output and a second output offset in phase. The inductor is adapted to provide bandpass filtering of the first output and the second output to reduce harmonics and spurious content in the output, as well as provide amplification of the outputs relative to the input signal.

Claims

1. A polyphase device comprising:

a first transistor having a first collector, a first base and a first emitter, the first base adapted to receive a positive portion of an input signal;

a second transistor having a second collector, a second base and a second emitter, the second base adapted to receive a negative portion of the input signal, the first transistor and the second transistor adapted to drive the R-C polyphase network;

an R-C polyphase network having a first input coupled to the first collector and a second input coupled to the second collector;

the R-C polyphase network including an inductor;

the R-C polyphase network having first output and a second output, the first output and the second output offset in phase; and

the R-C polyphase network including the inductor adapted to provide bandpass filtering of the first output and the second output;

wherein the first output and the second output are offset in phase by approximately 90 degrees.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the inductor is coupled to an input of the R-C polyphase network.

3. The device of claim 1 wherein the inductor is in resonance with a capacitive reactance of the R-C polyphase network.

4. The device of claim 1 wherein the inductor is adapted to reduce unwanted harmonics and spurious content in the first output and the second output.

5. The device of claim 1 wherein the inductor comprises:

a first inductor coupled to the first input of the R-C polyphase network; and

a second inductor coupled to the second input of the R-C polyphase network.

6. The device of claim 1 wherein the first output and the second output are amplified relative to the input signal.

7. The device of claim 1 wherein the R-C polyphase network comprise a two-stage R-C polyphase network.

8. A polyphase device comprising:

a transistor having a collector, a base and an emitter;

an R-C polyphase network having an input coupled to the collector, the transistor adapted to drive the R-C polyphase network; and

the R-C polyphase network including an inductor, such that the R-C polyphase network and the inductor are adapted to provide bandpass filtering of a first output and a second output of the R-C polyphase network;

wherein the first output and the second output are offset in phase by approximately 90 degrees.

9. The device of claim 8 wherein the inductor is coupled to the input of the R-C polyphase network.

10. The device of claim 8 wherein the inductor is in resonance with a capacitive reactance of the R-C polyphase network.

11. The device of claim 8 wherein the inductor is adapted to reduce unwanted harmonies and spurious content in the output.

12. The device of claim 9 wherein the output is amplified relative to an input signal coupled to the base and driving the R-C polyphase network.

13. A method of generating phase offset signals comprising the steps of:

inputting a positive portion of an input signal into a first base of a first transistor;

inputting a negative portion of the input signal into a second base of a second transistor;

causing each of the first transistor and the second transistor to become a current source;

driving an R-C polyphase network having a first input coupled to a first collector of the first transistor and a second input coupled to a second collector of a second transistor, wherein the R-C polyphase network includes an inductor; and

outputting a first output and a second output, the first output and the second output offset in phase, the R-C polyphase network including the inductor causing a bandpass filtering of the first output and the second output;

wherein the outputting step comprises outputting the first output and the second output offset in phase by approximately 90 degrees.

14. The method of claim 13 wherein the inductor is coupled to an input of the R-C polyphase network.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the inductor is in resonance with a capacitive reactance of the R-C polyphase network.

16. The method of claim 13 further comprising reducing unwanted harmonics and spurious content in the first output and the second output.

17. The method of claim 13 wherein the inductor comprises:

a first inductor coupled to the first input of the R-C polyphase network; and

a second inductor coupled to the second input of the R-C polyphase network.

18. The method of claim 13 further comprising amplifying the first output and the second output relative to the input signal.