Abstract: A method for determining an image rejection characteristic of a receiver within a transceiver is provided. The transceiver uses a common local oscillator. The method includes generating a test signal having a spectral peak and generating a local oscillator signal comprising a frequency with an offset from a center frequency of the spectral peak. Further, the method includes down-mixing the test signal in the receiver using the local oscillator signal to generate a down-mixed signal. The method further includes calculating a first value of a signal characteristic of the down-mixed signal in a first frequency range corresponding to a desired signal component of the down-mixed signal and calculating a second value of the signal characteristic of the down-mixed signal in a second frequency range corresponding to an undesired signal component of the down-mixed signal. Further, the method includes comparing the first value and the second value to generate the image rejection characteristic.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit, comprises a first amplifier stage contributing to a power of an amplified signal and a second amplifier stage contributing to the power of the amplified signal. The first amplifier stage and the second amplifier stage share a transistor.

Abstract: An amplifier operates to provide a high output impedance at an output through a push stage having a first transistor of a first transistor type and a pull stage having a second transistor of a second transistor type that is different from the first transistor type. The first transistor and the second transistor are coupled in a common-gate configuration. The first transistor and the second transistor are shorted together via a capacitor coupled to an input and share a common current path as a push-pull current-reusing common-gate low noise amplifier with a broadband input matching.

Abstract: A method for determining an image rejection characteristic of a receiver within a transceiver is provided. The transceiver uses a common local oscillator. The method includes generating a test signal having a spectral peak and generating a local oscillator signal comprising a frequency with an offset from a center frequency of the spectral peak. Further, the method includes down-mixing the test signal in the receiver using the local oscillator signal to generate a down-mixed signal. The method further includes calculating a first value of a signal characteristic of the down-mixed signal in a first frequency range corresponding to a desired signal component of the down-mixed signal and calculating a second value of the signal characteristic of the down-mixed signal in a second frequency range corresponding to an undesired signal component of the down-mixed signal. Further, the method includes comparing the first value and the second value to generate the image rejection characteristic.

Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a built-in self-test for a RF communication device. The communication device self-generates a test signal and processes the test signal through the communication device to determine an operational state of the communication device.

Abstract: An amplifier operates to provide a high output impedance at an output through a push stage having a first transistor of a first transistor type and a pull stage having a second transistor of a second transistor type that is different from the first transistor type. The first transistor and the second transistor are coupled in a common-gate configuration. The first transistor and the second transistor are shorted together via a capacitor coupled to an input and share a common current path as a push-pull current-reusing common-gate low noise amplifier with a broadband input matching.

Abstract: An amplifier circuit, comprises a first amplifier stage contributing to a power of an amplified signal and a second amplifier stage contributing to the power of the amplified signal. The first amplifier stage and the second amplifier stage share a transistor.

Abstract: Representative implementations of devices and techniques provide a built-in self-test for a RF communication device. The communication device self-generates a test signal and processes the test signal through the communication device to determine an operational state of the communication device.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for regulating a parameter (e.g., duty cycle) of an electrical signal, generated by a circuit component. The regulating device includes a first integrator, which is supplied with the output signal from the circuit component, and a second integrator, which is supplied with the output signal from the first integrator. The second integrator has an operational amplifier having an inverting input, a noninverting input and an output, and the output is fed back to the inverting input via a feedback path. The inverting input receives the output signal from the first integrator. The noninverting input receives a reference signal. The output of the operational amplifier is fed back to the inverting input via a series circuit including a capacitor and a resistor. The output of the second operational amplifier provides an output signal from the regulating device, which is supplied to the circuit component as a controlled variable.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for regulating the duty cycle of an electrical signal including a first input differential amplifier, to which an input signal is applied; a first current source for controlling the current through the first input differential amplifier; a second input differential amplifier, to which the same input signal is applied; a second current source for controlling the current through the second input differential amplifier; a device which generates a fluctuating voltage signal from output signals of the two input differential amplifiers; a buffer device, which converts the fluctuating voltage signal into a digital output signal; a capacitance and a device for charging and discharging the capacitance in time with the digital output signal. The voltage present at the capacitance is fed to the first and second current sources as control voltage and effects regulation of the two current sources in opposite senses.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for regulating a parameter (e.g., duty cycle) of an electrical signal, generated by a circuit component. The regulating device includes a first integrator, which is supplied with the output signal from the circuit component, and a second integrator, which is supplied with the output signal from the first integrator. The second integrator has an operational amplifier having an inverting input, a noninverting input and an output, and the output is fed back to the inverting input via a feedback path. The inverting input receives the output signal from the first integrator. The noninverting input receives a reference signal. The output of the operational amplifier is fed back to the inverting input via a series circuit including a capacitor and a resistor. The output of the second operational amplifier provides an output signal from the regulating device, which is supplied to the circuit component as a controlled variable.

Abstract: Optical receiver circuit having a first, illuminable reception device for converting an optical signal into an analog electrical signal; a first preamplifier for amplifying the output signal of the first reception device; a postamplifier having a first input and a second input, the first input being supplied with the signal of the first reception device (said signal having been amplified in the first preamplifier) and the second input being supplied with a reference signal; an offset compensation circuit, which regulates the difference between the mean value of the electrical signal at the first input of the postamplifier and the reference signal at the second input of the postamplifier to a constant value; and having a signal detection device, which detects a control signal of the offset compensation circuit and carries out signal detection in a manner dependent on this signal. The invention provides signal detection in an optical receiver circuit, which manages with few additional components.

Abstract: A circuit arrangement for regulating the duty cycle of an electrical signal including a first input differential amplifier, to which an input signal is applied; a first current source for controlling the current through the first input differential amplifier; a second input differential amplifier, to which the same input signal is applied; a second current source for controlling the current through the second input differential amplifier; a device which generates a fluctuating voltage signal from output signals of the two input differential amplifiers; a buffer device, which converts the fluctuating voltage signal into a digital output signal; a capacitance and a device for charging and discharging the capacitance in time with the digital output signal. The voltage present at the capacitance is fed to the first and second current sources as control voltage and effects regulation of the two current sources in opposite senses.

Abstract: Optical receiver circuit having a first, illuminable reception device for converting an optical signal into an analog electrical signal; a first preamplifier for amplifying the output signal of the first reception device; a postamplifier having a first input and a second input, the first input being supplied with the signal of the first reception device (said signal having been amplified in the first preamplifier) and the second input being supplied with a reference signal; an offset compensation circuit, which regulates the difference between the mean value of the electrical signal at the first input of the postamplifier and the reference signal at the second input of the postamplifier to a constant value; and having a signal detection device, which detects a control signal of the offset compensation circuit and carries out signal detection in a manner dependent on this signal. The invention provides signal detection in an optical receiver circuit, which manages with few additional components.