Signal generation device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9264076-B2
Application number	US-201414177371-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 11, 2014
Priority date	Feb 15, 2013
Publication date	Feb 16, 2016
Grant date	Feb 16, 2016

Abstract

A device for generating a signal, including: a balun; and a circuit capable of summing up, on a first access terminal of the balun, currents representative of signals received on first input terminals of the device, and on a second access terminal of the balun, currents representative of signals received on second input terminals of the device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A device for generating a signal, comprising:
a balun; and
a circuit configured to sum up, on a first access terminal of the balun, currents representative of signals received on first input terminals of the device, and on a second access terminal of the balun, currents representative of signals received on second input terminals of the device;
the first input terminals are configured to receive first periodic analog signals having different frequencies, and the second input terminals are configured to receive second periodic analog signals having different frequencies, with the second periodic analog signals having phases opposite phases of the first periodic analog signals;
with said circuit configured to perform a weighted sum of each of the first and second periodic analog signals based on assigned weighting coefficients.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein said circuit comprises a plurality of parallel branches, each comprising a controllable current source and a pair of switches, connecting said current source respectively to the first and second access terminals of the balun.

3. The device of claim 2 , further comprising a selection circuit configured so that two switches of a same pair are not simultaneously controlled.

4. The device of claim 3 , wherein the switches of each pair are respectively connected, via the selection circuit, to one of the first input terminals of the device, and to one of the second input terminals of the device.

5. The device of claim 2 , comprising a plurality of third input terminals respectively connected to the control terminals of said controllable current sources.

6. The device of claim 5 , wherein said third input terminals are intended to receive voltages representative of the assigned weighting coefficients to be applied to said currents representative of the signals received on the first and second input terminals.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the balun comprises a first winding between the first and second access terminals, an intermediate point of the first winding being connected to a reference voltage terminal.

8. The device of claim 7 , wherein the balun further comprises a second winding between an output terminal of the device and a reference voltage terminal.

9. The device of claim 1 , capable of generating a radio frequency signal.

Assignees

• St Microelectronics Sa
• Inst Polytechnique Bordeaux
• Centre Nat Rech Scient
• Univ Bordeaux

Inventors

• Belot Didier
• Deval Yann
• Rivet Francois

Classifications

• H04B1/0014 Primary

  using DSP [Digital Signal Processor] quadrature modulation and demodulation · CPC title

• H04B1/406 Primary

  with more than one transmission mode, e.g. analog and digital modes · CPC title

• H04B2001/0491

  with frequency synthesizers, frequency converters or modulators · CPC title