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Semiconductor devices with inductors

US7642618B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateJul 19, 2005
Grant dateJan 5, 2010
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Expiry dateOct 12, 2025

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH01L2924/3011
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Semiconductor devices are provided with high performance high-frequency circuits in which interference caused by inductors is reduced. In a semiconductor device including a modulator circuit to modulate a carrier wave by a base band signal to output an RF signal and a demodulator circuit to demodulate the RF signal by use of the carrier wave to gain the base band signal and a local oscillator to generate the carrier wave, inductors respectively having a closed loop wire are adopted. Interference caused by mutual inductance is reduced by the closed loop wire. For example, where inductors are adopted in the modulator circuit, a closed loop wire is disposed around the outer periphery of the inductors.

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