Digital architecture for radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods
First Claim
1. A radio-frequency (RF) apparatus, comprising:
- a first circuit partition, comprising;
an amplifier that receives an RF signal, and provides an amplified RF signal;
a down-converter that mixes the amplified RF signal to generate a down-converted signal; and
an analog-to-digital converter that converts the down-converter signal to a digital signal; and
a second circuit partition, comprising;
a digital down-converter that converts the digital signal to generate a baseband signal;
a digital channelization filter that filters the baseband signal to generate a filtered baseband signal; and
a digital programmable-gain amplifier that amplifies the filtered baseband signal, using a prescribed gain.
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Abstract
A radio-frequency (RF) receiver includes a receiver analog circuitry and a receiver digital circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry resides within a first integrated circuit and the receiver digital circuitry resides within a second integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit couples to the first integrated circuit via a one-bit digital interface. The receiver analog circuitry receives an RF signal and processes the received RF signal to generate a digital signal. The receiver analog circuitry provides the digital signal to the receiver digital circuitry. The receiver digital circuitry includes a digital down-converter circuitry that mixes the digital signal with an intermediate frequency (IF) local oscillator (LO) signal to generate a digital down-converted signal. The receiver digital circuitry also includes a digital filter circuitry that filters the digital down-converted signal to generate a filtered digital signal.
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20 Claims
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1. A radio-frequency (RF) apparatus, comprising:
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a first circuit partition, comprising; an amplifier that receives an RF signal, and provides an amplified RF signal; a down-converter that mixes the amplified RF signal to generate a down-converted signal; and an analog-to-digital converter that converts the down-converter signal to a digital signal; and a second circuit partition, comprising; a digital down-converter that converts the digital signal to generate a baseband signal; a digital channelization filter that filters the baseband signal to generate a filtered baseband signal; and a digital programmable-gain amplifier that amplifies the filtered baseband signal, using a prescribed gain. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A digital receive-path circuit in a radio-frequency (RF) apparatus, the digital receive-path circuit comprising:
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an interface circuit that receives a complex one-bit digital signal; a digital down-converter that mixes the complex one-bit digital signal with a complex digital intermediate frequency (IF) local oscillator signal to generate a complex digital down-converted signal; a cascaded integrator/comb (CIC) filter that filters the complex digital down-converted signal to generate a first filtered complex digital signal; an infinite-impulse-response (JIR) filter that filters the first filtered complex digital signal to generate a second filtered complex digital signal; and a notch filter that removes a residual direct-current (DC) offset from the second filtered complex digital signal. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A method of processing a radio-frequency (RF) signal, the method comprising:
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amplifying the RF signal within a first circuit partition to generate an amplified RF signal; mixing the amplified RF signal within the first circuit partition to generate a down-converted signal; converting, within the first circuit partition, the down-converted signal to a digital signal; supplying the digital signal to a second circuit partition; converting the digital signal to a baseband signal within a second circuit partition; digital channelization filtering the baseband signal within the second circuit partition; and digitally amplifying the filtered baseband signal within the second circuit partition, using a programmable gain. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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