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| 20080238624 | RFID READER WITH ACTIVE BLOCKING REJECTION IN RECEIVER - An RFID reader is operable to receive an inbound RF signal from an RFID tag during transmission of an outbound RF signal. The inbound RF signal from the RFID tag is a modulated, backscattered signal that includes a desired RF signal component and a blocking RF signal component. The receiver section of the RFID reader includes a preprocessing module operable to process the inbound RF signal. The preprocessing module includes an adjustable attenuation module operable to attenuate the inbound RF signal to produce an attenuated inbound RF signal and an active blocking rejection module operable to increase a ratio of the desired RF signal component to blocking RF signal component in the attenuated inbound RF signal. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080299935 | IC with saw-less RF front-end - An IC includes an RF front end, a down conversion module, an up conversion module, and a local oscillation generating module. The RF front end includes a receive section, a transmit section, and an interference reduction module. The receive section receives an inbound RF signal within a receive frequency band and the transmit section transmits an outbound RF signal within a transmit frequency band. The interference reduction module is coupled to at least one of the receive section and the transmit section and facilitates at least one of: attenuating energy of the outbound RF signal within the receive frequency band based on a transmit local oscillation or a receive local oscillation; and attenuating energy of the inbound RF signal within the transmit frequency band based on the transmit local oscillation or the receive local oscillation. | 12-04-2008 |
| 20090075613 | DISTRIBUTED RF FRONT-END FOR UWB RECEIVERS - Described herein are ultra wide-band distributed RF (UWB-DRF) front-end receivers comprising composite cells distributed along transmission lines, where each composite cell comprises a low-noise amplifier (LNA) merged with a mixer. By merging the LNA and the mixer in each composite cell, the power consumption and chip area of the RF front-end is reduced. Further, the distributed architecture of the RF front-end allows it to operate over a wide bandwidth by absorbing the parasitic capacitances of the composite cells into the transmission lines of the RF-front end. Embodiments of the RF front-end provide wideband flat gain, low noise figure (NF), wideband linearity, and wideband matching at the inputs of the RF front-end. In an embodiment, a programmable resistance at the termination of the RF transmission line allows the RF front-end to trade off a few decibels of mismatch at the RF input for higher gain and lower NF. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20110051670 | INTEGRATED BLOCKER FILTERING RF FRONT END - A receiver architecture for canceling blocking signals in the receive path includes a low noise amplifier for receiving and amplifying an inbound RF signal to produce an amplified inbound signal, in which the inbound RF signal includes a modulated RF signal and a blocking signal, and a cancellation module for substantially canceling the blocking signal from the amplified inbound RF signal and substantially passing the modulated RF signal. The cancellation module cancels the blocking signal by generating an injection signal representative of the blocking signal, combining the blocking signal with the injection signal to produce an error signal, updating the injection signal based on the error signal and using the injection signal to cancel the blocking signal from the amplified inbound RF signal. | 03-03-2011 |
| 20110111695 | Near field RFID system with multiple reader coils - A near field RFID system includes an RFID reader and an RFID tag. The RFID reader includes a transmit path and a receive path, wherein the transmit path includes: an encoding section coupled to convert data into encoded data; a digital to analog conversion module coupled to convert the encoded data into an analog encoded signal; a power amplifier coupled to amplify the analog encoded signal; and a plurality of coils coupled to generate a plurality of electromagnetic fields from the analog encoded signal. The RFID tag that includes: a coil coupled to generate a current and a recovered signal from at least one of the plurality of electromagnetic fields; a power recovery circuit coupled to generate a voltage from the current; and a data processing section coupled to process the recovered signal, wherein the data processing section is powered via the voltage. | 05-12-2011 |
