RF circuitry having simplified acoustic RF resonator parallel capacitance compensation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11025224-B2
Application number	US-201916283044-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2019
Priority date	Dec 24, 2014
Publication date	Jun 1, 2021
Grant date	Jun 1, 2021

Abstract

RF circuitry, which includes a first acoustic RF resonator (ARFR) and a first compensating ARFR, is disclosed. A first inductive element is coupled between the first compensating ARFR and a first end of the first ARFR. A second inductive element is coupled between the first compensating ARFR and a second end of the first ARFR. The first compensating ARFR, the first inductive element, and the second inductive element at least partially compensate for a parallel capacitance of the first ARFR.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. Radio frequency (RF) circuitry, comprising:
a first RF antenna;
RF receive (RX) circuitry;
RF transmit (TX) circuitry; and
an RF TX/RX multiplexer coupled between the first RF antenna and the RF RX circuitry, and coupled between the first RF antenna and the RF TX circuitry, comprising:
a first RF RX bandpass filter configured to receive and filter a first RF RX signal and comprising:
a first acoustic RF resonator (ARFR); and
a first parallel capacitance compensation circuit comprising:
a first inductive element coupled to a first end of the first ARFR;
a second inductive element coupled to a second end of the first ARFR and negatively coupled to the first inductive element; and
a first compensating ARFR coupled to the first inductive element;
wherein the first parallel capacitance compensation circuit is configured to at least partially compensate for a parallel capacitance of the first ARFR and thereby improve out of band rejection of the first RF RX bandpass filter; and

a first RF TX bandpass filter configured to receive and filter a first RF TX signal.

2. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first RF TX bandpass filter comprises:
a second ARFR; and
a second parallel capacitance compensation circuit coupled across the second ARFR and configured to at least partially compensate for a parallel capacitance of the second ARFR and thereby improve out of band rejection of the first RF TX bandpass filter.

3. The RF circuitry of claim 2 , wherein the second parallel capacitance compensation circuit comprises:
a third inductive element coupled to a first end of the second ARFR;
a fourth inductive element coupled to a second end of the second ARFR and negatively coupled to the third inductive element; and
a second compensating ARFR coupled to the third inductive element.

4. The RF circuitry of claim 2 , further comprising:
a first plurality of ARFRs coupled in series between the first ARFR and the first RF antenna; and
a second plurality of ARFRs coupled in series between the second ARFR and the first RF antenna.

5. The RF circuitry of claim 2 , wherein:
the first RF RX bandpass filter is configured to receive and filter the first RF RX signal from the first RF antenna to provide a first antenna, first upstream RF RX signal; and
the first RF TX bandpass filter is configured to receive and filter the first RF TX signal from the RF TX circuitry to provide a first antenna, first RF TX signal to the first RF antenna.

6. The RF circuitry of claim 5 , wherein:
the RF RX circuitry is configured to receive and process the first antenna, first upstream RF RX signal; and
the RF TX circuitry processes and forwards the first RF TX signal to the RF TX/RX multiplexer.

7. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , further comprising:
a second RF RX bandpass filter configured to receive and filter a second RF RX signal; and
a second RF TX bandpass filter configured to receive and filter a second RF TX signal.

8. The RF circuitry of claim 7 , wherein the second RF RX bandpass filter comprises:
a second ARFR; and
a second parallel capacitance compensation circuit coupled across the second ARFR and configured to at least partially compensate for a parallel capacitance of the second ARFR and thereby improve out of band rejection of the second RF RX bandpass filter.

9. The RF circuitry of claim 8 , wherein the second parallel capacitance compensation circuit comprises:
a third inductive element coupled to a first end of the second ARFR;
a fourth inductive element coupled to a second end of the second ARFR and negatively coupled to the third inductive element; and
a second compensating ARFR coupled to the third inductive element.

10. The RF circuitry of claim 8 , further comprising:
a first plurality of ARFRs coupled in series between the first ARFR and the first RF antenna; and
a second plurality of ARFRs coupled in series between the second ARFR and a second RF antenna coupled to the RF TX/RX multiplexer.

11. The RF circuitry of claim 8 , wherein:
the first RF RX bandpass filter is configured to receive and filter the first RF RX signal from the first RF antenna to provide a first antenna, first upstream RF RX signal; and
the second RF RX bandpass filter is configured to receive and filter the second RF RX signal from a second RF antenna to provide a second antenna, first upstream RF RX signal.

12. The RF circuitry of claim 11 , wherein the RF RX circuitry is configured to simultaneously receive and process the first antenna, first upstream RF RX signal and the second antenna, first upstream RF RX signal.

13. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first compensating ARFR is coupled between the first inductive element and the first end of the first ARFR.

14. The RF circuitry of claim 13 , further comprising a second compensating ARFR coupled between the second inductive element and the second end of the first ARFR.

15. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein the first compensating ARFR is coupled between the first inductive element and ground, and the first compensating ARFR is further coupled between the second inductive element and the ground.

16. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein an absolute value of a coefficient of coupling between the first inductive element and the second inductive element is greater than zero and less than 0.7.

17. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein an inductance of the first inductive element is not equal to an inductance of the second inductive element.

18. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein each of the first ARFR and the first compensating ARFR is a surface acoustic wave (SAW) RF resonator.

19. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , wherein each of the first ARFR and the first compensating ARFR is a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) RF resonator.

20. The RF circuitry of claim 1 , further comprising an acoustic substrate, which comprises the first ARFR and the first compensating ARFR.

Assignees

• Qorvo Us Inc

Inventors

• Khlat Nadim
• Chiron Jean-Frederic
• Granger-Jones Marcus
• Folkmann Andrew F
• Aigner Robert

Classifications

• H03H9/605

  consisting of a ladder configuration · CPC title

• H03H9/542 Primary

  including passive elements (H03H9/545 takes precedence) · CPC title

• H04B1/10

  Means associated with receiver for limiting or suppressing noise or interference · CPC title

• H03H9/64

  using surface acoustic waves · CPC title

• H03H9/568

  consisting of a ladder configuration · CPC title