Homodyne RFID receiver and method
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1. An Radio Frequency (RF) device, comprising:
- an RF antenna operable to receive a backscattered signal;
a signal source operable to generate an in-phase and a quadrature-phase component of an RF carrier signal;
a first mixer coupled to the signal source and operable to multiply the in-phase component of the RF carrier signal and the received backscattered signal to generate a first baseband signal;
a second mixer coupled to the signal source and operable to multiply the quadrature-phase component with the received backscattered signal to generate a second baseband signal; and
a multiplexer operable to pass one of the first baseband signal or the second baseband signal as a demodulated RF output signal based, at least in part, on an amplitude of the first baseband signal or an amplitude of the second baseband signal.
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Abstract
An RFID circuit comprises an RF carrier signal source, a hybrid coupled to the RF carrier signal source operable to generate an in-phase and a quadrature phase component of the RF carrier signal, a switch coupled to the hybrid operable to pass one of the in-phase and quadrature phase components of the RF carrier signal to its output, and a mixer coupled to the output of the switch operable to multiply one of the in-phase and quadrature phase component of the carrier signal and a received modulated carrier signal and generate a baseband signal.
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1. An Radio Frequency (RF) device, comprising:
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an RF antenna operable to receive a backscattered signal; a signal source operable to generate an in-phase and a quadrature-phase component of an RF carrier signal; a first mixer coupled to the signal source and operable to multiply the in-phase component of the RF carrier signal and the received backscattered signal to generate a first baseband signal; a second mixer coupled to the signal source and operable to multiply the quadrature-phase component with the received backscattered signal to generate a second baseband signal; and a multiplexer operable to pass one of the first baseband signal or the second baseband signal as a demodulated RF output signal based, at least in part, on an amplitude of the first baseband signal or an amplitude of the second baseband signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 18)
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12. A method comprising:
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generating an in-phase component of a RF carrier signal and a quadrature-phase component of the RF carrier signal; receiving a backscattered signal; splitting the backscattered signal into a first backscattered component and a second backscattered component; multiplying the first backscatter component and the in-phase component of the RF carrier signal to generate a first baseband signal; multiplying the second backscatter component and the quadrature-phase component of the RF carrier signal to generate a second baseband signal; and passing the first baseband signal or the second baseband signal as a demodulated RF output signal based, at least in part, on an amplitude of the first baseband signal or the second baseband signal. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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