Systems for analog phase shifting

• US 9,521,023 B2
• Filed: 10/19/2015
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kumu Networks, Inc.
• Inventors: Martinez, Ricardo, Shalizi, Joseph, Landi, Ernie, Jain, Mayank, Choi, Jung-Il
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Duc M
• Application Number:
  US14/887,198
• Publication Number:
  US 20160112226A1
• Time in Patent Office: 421 Days
• Field of Search: 455/120, 455/121, 455/122, 455/123, 455/124, 455/125, 455/296
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H01Q 3/36 with variable phase-shifters
• CPC Class Codes: H03C 3/12 by means of a variable reactive element
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/10 Means associated with receiver for limiting or suppressing noise or interference
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/15585 by interference cancellation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 27/2003 for continuous phase modulation frequency shift keying H04L27/10

Abstract

A system for phase shifting that produces an output signal by modifying a phase of an input signal, including a primary phase shifting stage that modifies the input signal phase in increments set by a first tuning resolution; a secondary phase shifting stage that modifies the input signal phase in increments set by a second tuning resolution; and, a tuning circuit that controls the primary phase shifting stage and the secondary phase shifting stage according to control input.

Claims

1. A system for phase shifting comprising:

a first switch that couples a first switch input to a common rail only when the first switch is closed;

a first sub-circuit, comprising a first capacitor and a first inductor;

wherein the first inductor couples a signal input of the system to the first switch;

wherein the first capacitor couples the first switch input and the first inductor to the common rail;

wherein the first sub-circuit includes only a single inductor and a single capacitor;

a second switch that couples a second switch input to the common rail only when the second switch is closed;

a second sub-circuit, comprising a second capacitor and a second inductor;

wherein the second capacitor couples the signal input of the system to the second switch;

wherein the second inductor couples the second switch input and the second capacitor to the common rail;

wherein the second sub-circuit includes only a single inductor and a single capacitor; and

a third switch that couples a signal output of the system to the first sub-circuit when in a first switch state and couples the output of the system to the second sub-circuit when in a second switch state;

wherein the system phase shifts the signal output relative to the signal input.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the first switch is open, the second switch is closed, the third switch is in the first switch state, and the system shifts the signal output by positive ninety degrees relative to the signal input.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the signal input is coupled to a local oscillator of a self-interference canceller;

wherein the signal output is coupled to a mixer of the self-interference canceller;

wherein the system produces a phase-shifted version of a signal of the local oscillator for use by the mixer.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the first switch is closed, the second switch is open, the third switch is in the second switch state, and the system shifts the signal output by negative ninety degrees relative to the signal input.

5. A system for phase shifting that produces an output signal by modifying a phase of an input signal, the system comprising:

a primary phase shifting stage that modifies the input signal phase in increments set by a first tuning resolution;

a secondary phase shifting stage that modifies the input signal phase in increments set by a second tuning resolution, wherein the secondary phase shifting stage comprises;

a first secondary sub-circuit comprising a first impedance transformer, a first phase shifting element and a second phase shifting element;

a second secondary sub-circuit comprising a second impedance transformer, a third phase shifting element and a fourth phase shifting element; and

a hybrid coupler, wherein an input port of the hybrid coupler is coupled to an input of the secondary phase shifting stage, wherein an isolated port of the hybrid coupler is coupled to an output of the secondary phase shifting stage, wherein a coupled port of the hybrid coupler is coupled to the first secondary sub-circuit;

wherein an output port of the hybrid coupler is coupled to the second secondary sub-circuit; and

a tuning circuit that controls the primary phase shifting stage and the secondary phase shifting stage according to control input;

wherein the second tuning resolution is higher than the first tuning resolution.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the primary phase shifting stage comprises an LC ladder network;

wherein the ladder network comprises CLC Pi circuits coupled by shunt digitally tunable capacitors.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein the primary phase shifting stage comprises an LC ladder network;

wherein the ladder network comprises CLC Pi circuits coupled by shunt varactors.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein the primary phase shifting stage comprises an impedance matching network;

wherein the secondary phase shifting stage comprises an impedance matching network.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the first phase shifting element, the second phase shifting element, the third phase shifting element, and the fourth phase shifting element comprise a varactor.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein each of the first phase shifting element, the second phase shifting element, the third phase shifting element, and the fourth phase shifting element comprise a digitally tunable capacitor.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the first and third phase shifting elements each comprise a capacitor that reduces change in contribution of the first and third phase shifting elements to overall system phase shifting relative to change in contribution of the second and fourth phase shifting elements in response to an identical change in digitally tunable capacitance settings.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the primary phase shifting stage comprises a first primary sub-circuit, a second primary sub-circuit, a third primary sub-circuit, and a set of switches that selectively couples an input of the primary phase shifting stage to an output of the primary phase shifting stage via the first primary sub-circuit, the second primary sub-circuit, the third primary sub-circuit, or a sub-circuit bypass according to a switch state of the set of switches;

wherein the first primary sub-circuit provides a positive ninety degree phase shift;

wherein the second primary sub-circuit provides a one hundred eighty degree phase shift;

wherein the third primary sub-circuit provides a negative ninety degree phase shift;

wherein the sub-circuit bypass provides zero degrees of phase shift.

13. The system of claim 5, wherein the primary phase shifting stage comprises a first primary sub-circuit, a second primary sub-circuit, a third primary sub-circuit, and a set of switches that selectively couples an input of the primary phase shifting stage to an output of the primary phase shifting stage via the first primary sub-circuit, the second primary sub-circuit, the third primary sub-circuit, or a sub-circuit bypass according to a switch state of the set of switches;

wherein the first primary sub-circuit provides a positive ninety degree phase shift;

wherein the second primary sub-circuit provides a one hundred eighty degree phase shift;

wherein the third primary sub-circuit provides a negative ninety degree phase shift;

wherein the sub-circuit bypass provides zero degrees of phase shift.

14. A system for self-interference cancellation comprising:

a transmit coupler, communicatively coupled to an RF transmit signal of a wireless communication system, that samples the RF transmit signal to create a sampled RF transmit signal having a first RF carrier frequency;

a frequency downconverter that converts the sampled RF transmit signal to an IF transmit signal having an IF carrier frequency, wherein the IF carrier frequency is less than the first RF carrier frequency;

an IF self-interference canceller that transforms the IF transmit signal to an IF self-interference cancellation signal;

a frequency upconverter, comprising a first mixer, a first local oscillator, and a first phase shifter, that converts the IF self-interference cancellation signal to a phase-shifted IF-sourced RF self-interference cancellation signal by phase shifting a signal of the first local oscillator and mixing the phase shifted local oscillator signal with the IF self-interference cancellation signal;

an RF self-interference canceller that transforms the sampled RF transmit signal to an RF self-interference cancellation signal; and

a receive coupler, communicatively coupled to an RF receive signal of the wireless communication system, that combines the RF self-interference cancellation signal and the phase-shifted IF-sourced RF self-interference cancellation signal with the RF receive signal.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the phase shifter comprises a primary phase shifting stage that modifies the input signal phase in increments set by a first tuning resolution, and a secondary phase shifting stage that modifies the input signal phase in increments set by a second tuning resolution;

wherein the second tuning resolution is higher than the first tuning resolution.

16. The system of claim 15, further comprising a digital self-interference canceller that transforms a digital transmit signal of the wireless communication system to a digital self-interference cancellation signal, and a digital-to-analog converter;

wherein the digital-to-analog converter converts the digital self-interference cancellation signal to a digitally-sourced RF self-interference cancellation signal;

wherein the receiver combines the RF self-interference cancellation signal, the IF-sourced RF self-interference cancellation signal, and the digitally-sourced RF self-interference cancellation signal with the RF receive signal.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the digital-to-analog converter comprises a second mixer, a second local oscillator, and a second phase shifter, and converts the digital self-interference cancellation signal to a phase-shifted digitally-sourced RF self-interference cancellation signal by phase shifting a signal of the second local oscillator and mixing the phase shifted local oscillator signal with the digital self-interference cancellation signal.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the first phase shifter comprises a digitally tuned capacitor;

wherein parameters of the digitally tuned capacitor are controlled by a tuning circuit in response to received complex weights.