Patents Assigned to Signia Technologies
  • Patent number: 6489816
    Abstract: A frequency converter circuit and method is disclosed. The circuit may comprise: two pairs of differential amplifying transistors; two current mirrors, wherein each of the two current mirrors is operable to feed a respective one of the two pairs of differential amplifying transistors; a further pair of differential amplifying transistors, wherein each transistor of the further pair of differential amplifying transistors is operable to feed a repective one of the two current mirrors; and a pair of bypass transistors connected in parallel with a controlling side of the two current mirrors, wherein the bypass transistors reduce a direct current component of a current being mirrored.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2002
    Assignee: Signia Technologies
    Inventor: Ssu-Pin Ma