Digital architecture for radio-frequency apparatus and associated methods

US8224259B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Silicon Laboratories Inc. · US

Inventors

• Richard T. Behrens · Louisville, US
• Tod Paulus · New York, US
• Mark S. Spurbeck · Superior, US
• Vishnu Srinivasan · Austin, US
• Donald A. Kerth · Austin, US
• Jeffrey W. Scott · Austin, US
• G. Tyson Tuttle · Austin, US
• G. Diwakar Vishakhadatta · Austin, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 1, 2010
• Grant date: Jul 17, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 1, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC H): Electricity
• CPC primary: H04B2215/064
• WIPO field: Telecommunications
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A radio-frequency (RF) receiver includes a receiver analog circuitry and a receiver digital circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry resides within a first integrated circuit and the receiver digital circuitry resides within a second integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit couples to the first integrated circuit via a one-bit digital interface. The receiver analog circuitry receives an RF signal and processes the received RF signal to generate a digital signal. The receiver analog circuitry provides the digital signal to the receiver digital circuitry. The receiver digital circuitry includes a digital down-converter circuitry that mixes the digital signal with an intermediate frequency (IF) local oscillator (LO) signal to generate a digital down-converted signal. The receiver digital circuitry also includes a digital filter circuitry that filters the digital down-converted signal to generate a filtered digital signal.