CA1117189A - Balanced active mixer circuit - Google Patents
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Abstract
BALANCED ACTIVE MIXER CIRCUIT
Abstract A singly-balanced active mixer circuit is disclosed for developing an IF signal by combining an RF signal and a local oscillator (LO) signal. The RF and LO signals are applied to a strip transmission line ring which provides balanced components of the LO signal to a pair of active devices arranged in an singly-balanced active mixer. The active devices are coupled directly, or via a balanced PI-network to the primary winding of an output transformer for application to the following IF stage of the radio receiver.
The singly balanced active mixer circuit may be advanta-geously utilized in a radio having a receiver with broadband front-end RF selectivity.
Abstract A singly-balanced active mixer circuit is disclosed for developing an IF signal by combining an RF signal and a local oscillator (LO) signal. The RF and LO signals are applied to a strip transmission line ring which provides balanced components of the LO signal to a pair of active devices arranged in an singly-balanced active mixer. The active devices are coupled directly, or via a balanced PI-network to the primary winding of an output transformer for application to the following IF stage of the radio receiver.
The singly balanced active mixer circuit may be advanta-geously utilized in a radio having a receiver with broadband front-end RF selectivity.
Description
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BALANCED ACTIVE MIXER CIRCUIT
Technical Field The present invention relates to radio mixer circuits, and more particularly, to a balanced active mixer circuit for use in radios having receivers with broadband front-end selectivity.
Back~round Art Singly-balanced passive mixers have been used in prior art microwave systems where a pair of mixer diodes has been symmetrically fed by balanced components of a local oscil-lator signal. The coupling of the microwave signal and the local oscillator signal to the mixer diodes has been accom-plished by a hybrid circuit ring. Such a microwave system is described in U.S. patent 3,659,206. However, since balanced passive mixers have a 6 to 8 dB conversion loss, the balanced passive mixer must be preceded by an expensive ~ RF amplifier.
i~ 15 The RF amplifier may be eliminated by utilizing active devices such as field effect transistors or bipolar tran ;~ sistors in place of the passive devices. Singly balanced ~ active mixers are described in U.S. patent 3,831,097 and in ; application note AN72-1 by Ed Oxner, published by Siliconix Inc., 1976. However, prior art singly balanced active mixers have typically utilized toroidal transformers for coupling the LO signal to the active devices and an `' :~ :
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r~3 output transEormer that is grounded at the center of the primary windin~. The groundiny of the output transformer is thought to be a critical factor in establishing good mixer balance, which is necessary for rejection of spurious signals. Therefore, in order to be highly immune to IF
related spurius signals, prior art balanced active mixers would be costly and complex due to critical design con-siderations in the desiyn of the circuitry coupliny the local oscillator signal to the active devices and in main-taining balance in the output transformer to the followingintermediate frequency stage, Summary of the Invention Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved and inexpensive singly-balanced active mixer circuit for use in radios having a receiver with broadband front-end RF selectivity.
It is another object of the present invention to pro-vide an improved singly-balanced active mixer circuit for use in broadband radios that are operative at a transmitter frequency which is substantially the same as the local-oscillator frequency.
It is a further object of the present invention to pro-vide an improved singly-balanced active mixer circuit for use in broadband radios where it is necessary to highly attenuates mixer spurious products due to the one-half IF
spurious frequency.
In practicing the invention, an singly-balanced active mixer circuit is provided for a radio transceiver for developing an intermediate frequency (IF) signal by com-bining the radio frequency (RF) signal with a local oscil-lator (LO) signal. The radio receiver may have broadbandfront-end RF selectivity, for example, the receiver band-width may be approximately equal to one-half of the inter-mediate frequency. The LO signal may be substantially the ' ,~1'7:~S~
same Erequency as the frequency oE the radio transmitter. The balancecl active mixer circuit includes a strip transmission line ring and a balanced ac-tive mixer. The strip transmission line ring is coupled to the ~' signal and the LO signal and provides first and second output slgnals to the balanced active mixer.
The first and second output signals are comprised of substan-tially equal components of the LO and RF signals. The equal components of the LO signal are phase shifted by 180 with respect to one another. The equal components of the RF signal are in phase with one another.
The first and second output signals from the strip trans-mission line ring are coupled to a pair of active devices in the balanced active mixer. The active devices provide first and second mixer signals which are coupled to opposite ends of the primary winding of an output transformer. The output transformer has a tap at a predetermined location on the primary winding for application of a predetermined bias voltage from a DC biasing network to the active devices. The desired IF
components of the first and second mixer signals add in phase in the primary winding of the output transformer, and the com-posite IF signal is provided across the secondary winding of the output transformer.
More particularly, there is provided:
A singly-balanced mixer circuit for developing an inter-mediate frequency (IF~ signal for a radio transceiver operativeon a plurality of radio channels, the radio transceiver having a receiving bandwidth approaching one-half of the IF frequency, said balanced mixer circuit combining a received radio fre-quency (RF) signal with a local oscillator (LO) signal to pro-vide the IF signal, said mixer circuit comprising:
(a) a strip transmission line ring having a first inputcoupled to the RF signal and a second input coupled to the LO
signal for providing first and second output signals, the first and second output signals comprised of substantially equal com-ponents of the LO signal and RF signal, the equal componentsof the LO signal phase shifted by 180 ~ith respect to one another and the equal components of the RF signal in phase with each other; and (b~ an active singly-balanced mixer including:
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~171~9 -3a-(i) first and second active devices coupled to the first an~ second output s~gnals o~ the transmission line ring Eor provid;ng first and second mixer signals, respectively;
S (ii) an output trans~ormer having a tap at a predetermined location on the primary ~inding that is not bypassed at the RF and IF frequencies, the first and second mixer signals from the first and second active devices coupled to opposite ends of the primary winding, IF
components of the first and second mixer signals adding in phase in the primary ~inding, and the composite IF signal provided across the secondary winding; and (iii) a DC biasing network coupled to the tap of the primary winding of the output transformer for apply-ing a predetermined bias voltage to the first and second active devices.
Brief Description of the Drawings Fig. 1 illustrates a circuit diagram of a balanced active 20 mixer circuit embodying the present invention.
Fig. 2 illustrates an embodiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 1 adapted for use in a mobile radio.
Fig. 3 illustrates another em~odiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 1, ~where the bipolar transistors 25 are connected in a common-base configuration.
~; Fig. 4 illustrates s-till another embodiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. l, where the hipolar transistors are replaced with FET devices in a common-source configuration.
Fig. 5 illustrates yet another embodiment of the balanced 30 active mixer circuit of Fig. 1, where the bipolar transistors are replaced with FET devices in a common-gate configuration.
Detailed Description of the Invent~on In Fig. 1, there is illustrated a singly-balanced active mixer circuit advantageously adapted for use in an FM
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~L~17~19 radio operativ~ on a pll~rality of radio channels at rela-tively high ~req~lencies~ ~or example, frequencies in the 800 MHz range. The radio receiver has a broadband front-end RF
selectivity. The receiver bandwidth may approach one-half of the IF, where normally receiver bandwidths are very narrow, being less than one-fourth of the IF. For example, a radio operative at freq~encies in the 800 MH~ range may have an IF of 45 MHz and a 3 ds RF front-end receiver band-width of 20 MHz. Thus the receiver bandwidth oE 20 MHz is approximately one--half of the IF, or 22.5 MHz. The one-half IF spurious signal will be a serious problem when operating on receiver channels located near the top end of the receiver RF bandwidth in this application unless the receiver mixer is highly immune to IF related spurious signals. The balanced active mixer circuit oE the present invention provides for over 70dB of attenuation to the one-half IF spurious signal referred to 20dB quieting sensi-tivity.
The balanced active mixer circuit includes a strip transmission line ring 100 and a balanced active mixer 101.
The strip transmission line ring 100 consists of four one-quarter wavelength segments 102-105 and one one-half wave-length segment 106. The received RF signal is applied via a matching segment 107 to the common junction of segments 103 and 104. The LO signal is applied via matching segment 108 to the common junction of segments 105 and 106. The RF
signal splits equally at the junction of segments 103 and 104 and travels around the transmission line ring 100 a total of one-half wavelength via segments 104 and 105, and a total of one wavelength via segments 103, 102 and 106 to the - input junction of the LO signal, where the equal portions of the RF signal cancel since they are 180 out ~f phase. In a similar manner, the LO signal divides into equal portions at the junction of segments 105 and 106, which cancel at the input junction of the RF signal for the same reasons.
~17~}9 ~, Ill ad~lition, the equal portions of the ~l~ siynal are applied in phase with one anot~er to transistors 120 a~d 121 via segments 103 and 10~ and matching segments 109 and 110, respectively. ~lowever, equal portions of the LO signal are applied 180 out of phase with respect to one another to the transistors 120 and 121.
The bipolar transistors 120 and 121 may be any s~itable commercially available transistor, such as the Motorola MRF901. The bipolar transistors 120 and 121 are connected in a common-emitter configuration, although any other suitable configuration such as common-base may be used(see Fig 3). The emitters of bipolar transistors 120 and 121 are connected to biasing resistors 121 and 122 and capacitors 123 and 124, respectively, for bypassing the RF signal and LO signal.
The collectors of bipolar transistors 120 and 121 are con-nected via series ferrite chokes 125 and 126 to capacitors 127 and 128 and to the output reference transformer 132.
The ferrite chokes 125 and 126 may be one-half turn beads which are provided in series with the collectors of the bipolar transistors 120 and 121 to prevent spurious oscil-lations, or they may be omitted. I
A four-to-one ratio ferrite transformer may be used as the output transformer 132. The transformer 13~ transforms a balanced input to an unbalanced output, and may have two turns in the secondary winding. The secondary winding may I be connected to the first IF stage of the radio receiver. A
DC voltage +V is coupled to the primary of the transformer 132 for providing the proper collector bias for transistors 120 and 121. The DC voltage +V is connected via resistor 138 to capacitor 142 and resistor 139. The collector bias - voltage to transistors 120 and 121 is provided ~ia choke 134 and resistor 133 to the center tap of the primary winding of transformer 132. By applying the bias voltage through an R~
isolating choke at the center tap of transformer 132, instead of RF bypassing the center tap as in the prior art, the precise location of the center tap of transformer 132 .
is not highly critical to the operation of the balanced active mixer. Since the specifications of the transformer l32 may be relaxed, a much less expensive transformer may now be used. Furthermore, the tap on the primary ~inding of transformer may be located at any suitable location on the primary winding since the tap is floating at the inter-mediate frequency instead of being bypassed to ground.
The bias voltage for the bases of transistors 120 and 121 is provided by a resistor divider Eormed by resistors 139 and 140. The base bias voltage is applied via resistor 141 to the junction of segments 104, 105 and 110 and by way of the continuity provided by segment 110 to the base of transistor 121 and by segments 104, 103 and 109 to the base of transistor 120. This bias may be applied at any segment junction since its placement is not critical.
The singly-balanced active mixer circuit is advanta-geously adapted for use in any radio having a receiver with broadband front-end RF selectivity. In particular, when such radios have a receiver bandwidth that approaches one-half of the intermediate frequency, interference due toIF-related spurious frequencies may be encountered. How-ever, interference due to the one-half IF spurious signal will be greatly attenuated by utilizing a balanced active mixer circuit embodying the present invention. Lhe theoret-ical basis for the cancellation of the one-half IF spurious signal can be explained by the following equations by con-sidering the collector currents of transistors 120 and 121.
The equations are modelled after the FET drain current equations in U.S. Patent No. 3,716,730.
~ 30 The forward transfer characteristic of a bipolar tran-; sistor may be expressed by the admittance or y-parameters of the device. This forward transfer admittance may be repre-sented by a Taylor's series since the device is not linear over large input voltage variations. Let ic = Yo + Yl Vb + Y2 Vb + Y3 Vb + ...... + Yn Vb (1) 1~71~39 wherein:
ic ~ instantaneous collector current Vb = instantaneous base-to-emitter voltage Once a quiescent operating point is chosen for the transistor by applying a forward d.c. bias voltage, the Taylor's series may be expanded about this bias point.
c Yo Vdc + Yl Vb + Y2 Vb 2 ~ y3 vb ~ + ... + y vb'n
BALANCED ACTIVE MIXER CIRCUIT
Technical Field The present invention relates to radio mixer circuits, and more particularly, to a balanced active mixer circuit for use in radios having receivers with broadband front-end selectivity.
Back~round Art Singly-balanced passive mixers have been used in prior art microwave systems where a pair of mixer diodes has been symmetrically fed by balanced components of a local oscil-lator signal. The coupling of the microwave signal and the local oscillator signal to the mixer diodes has been accom-plished by a hybrid circuit ring. Such a microwave system is described in U.S. patent 3,659,206. However, since balanced passive mixers have a 6 to 8 dB conversion loss, the balanced passive mixer must be preceded by an expensive ~ RF amplifier.
i~ 15 The RF amplifier may be eliminated by utilizing active devices such as field effect transistors or bipolar tran ;~ sistors in place of the passive devices. Singly balanced ~ active mixers are described in U.S. patent 3,831,097 and in ; application note AN72-1 by Ed Oxner, published by Siliconix Inc., 1976. However, prior art singly balanced active mixers have typically utilized toroidal transformers for coupling the LO signal to the active devices and an `' :~ :
::
, :
r~3 output transEormer that is grounded at the center of the primary windin~. The groundiny of the output transformer is thought to be a critical factor in establishing good mixer balance, which is necessary for rejection of spurious signals. Therefore, in order to be highly immune to IF
related spurius signals, prior art balanced active mixers would be costly and complex due to critical design con-siderations in the desiyn of the circuitry coupliny the local oscillator signal to the active devices and in main-taining balance in the output transformer to the followingintermediate frequency stage, Summary of the Invention Accordingly, it is a general object of the present invention to provide an improved and inexpensive singly-balanced active mixer circuit for use in radios having a receiver with broadband front-end RF selectivity.
It is another object of the present invention to pro-vide an improved singly-balanced active mixer circuit for use in broadband radios that are operative at a transmitter frequency which is substantially the same as the local-oscillator frequency.
It is a further object of the present invention to pro-vide an improved singly-balanced active mixer circuit for use in broadband radios where it is necessary to highly attenuates mixer spurious products due to the one-half IF
spurious frequency.
In practicing the invention, an singly-balanced active mixer circuit is provided for a radio transceiver for developing an intermediate frequency (IF) signal by com-bining the radio frequency (RF) signal with a local oscil-lator (LO) signal. The radio receiver may have broadbandfront-end RF selectivity, for example, the receiver band-width may be approximately equal to one-half of the inter-mediate frequency. The LO signal may be substantially the ' ,~1'7:~S~
same Erequency as the frequency oE the radio transmitter. The balancecl active mixer circuit includes a strip transmission line ring and a balanced ac-tive mixer. The strip transmission line ring is coupled to the ~' signal and the LO signal and provides first and second output slgnals to the balanced active mixer.
The first and second output signals are comprised of substan-tially equal components of the LO and RF signals. The equal components of the LO signal are phase shifted by 180 with respect to one another. The equal components of the RF signal are in phase with one another.
The first and second output signals from the strip trans-mission line ring are coupled to a pair of active devices in the balanced active mixer. The active devices provide first and second mixer signals which are coupled to opposite ends of the primary winding of an output transformer. The output transformer has a tap at a predetermined location on the primary winding for application of a predetermined bias voltage from a DC biasing network to the active devices. The desired IF
components of the first and second mixer signals add in phase in the primary winding of the output transformer, and the com-posite IF signal is provided across the secondary winding of the output transformer.
More particularly, there is provided:
A singly-balanced mixer circuit for developing an inter-mediate frequency (IF~ signal for a radio transceiver operativeon a plurality of radio channels, the radio transceiver having a receiving bandwidth approaching one-half of the IF frequency, said balanced mixer circuit combining a received radio fre-quency (RF) signal with a local oscillator (LO) signal to pro-vide the IF signal, said mixer circuit comprising:
(a) a strip transmission line ring having a first inputcoupled to the RF signal and a second input coupled to the LO
signal for providing first and second output signals, the first and second output signals comprised of substantially equal com-ponents of the LO signal and RF signal, the equal componentsof the LO signal phase shifted by 180 ~ith respect to one another and the equal components of the RF signal in phase with each other; and (b~ an active singly-balanced mixer including:
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~171~9 -3a-(i) first and second active devices coupled to the first an~ second output s~gnals o~ the transmission line ring Eor provid;ng first and second mixer signals, respectively;
S (ii) an output trans~ormer having a tap at a predetermined location on the primary ~inding that is not bypassed at the RF and IF frequencies, the first and second mixer signals from the first and second active devices coupled to opposite ends of the primary winding, IF
components of the first and second mixer signals adding in phase in the primary ~inding, and the composite IF signal provided across the secondary winding; and (iii) a DC biasing network coupled to the tap of the primary winding of the output transformer for apply-ing a predetermined bias voltage to the first and second active devices.
Brief Description of the Drawings Fig. 1 illustrates a circuit diagram of a balanced active 20 mixer circuit embodying the present invention.
Fig. 2 illustrates an embodiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 1 adapted for use in a mobile radio.
Fig. 3 illustrates another em~odiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 1, ~where the bipolar transistors 25 are connected in a common-base configuration.
~; Fig. 4 illustrates s-till another embodiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. l, where the hipolar transistors are replaced with FET devices in a common-source configuration.
Fig. 5 illustrates yet another embodiment of the balanced 30 active mixer circuit of Fig. 1, where the bipolar transistors are replaced with FET devices in a common-gate configuration.
Detailed Description of the Invent~on In Fig. 1, there is illustrated a singly-balanced active mixer circuit advantageously adapted for use in an FM
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~L~17~19 radio operativ~ on a pll~rality of radio channels at rela-tively high ~req~lencies~ ~or example, frequencies in the 800 MHz range. The radio receiver has a broadband front-end RF
selectivity. The receiver bandwidth may approach one-half of the IF, where normally receiver bandwidths are very narrow, being less than one-fourth of the IF. For example, a radio operative at freq~encies in the 800 MH~ range may have an IF of 45 MHz and a 3 ds RF front-end receiver band-width of 20 MHz. Thus the receiver bandwidth oE 20 MHz is approximately one--half of the IF, or 22.5 MHz. The one-half IF spurious signal will be a serious problem when operating on receiver channels located near the top end of the receiver RF bandwidth in this application unless the receiver mixer is highly immune to IF related spurious signals. The balanced active mixer circuit oE the present invention provides for over 70dB of attenuation to the one-half IF spurious signal referred to 20dB quieting sensi-tivity.
The balanced active mixer circuit includes a strip transmission line ring 100 and a balanced active mixer 101.
The strip transmission line ring 100 consists of four one-quarter wavelength segments 102-105 and one one-half wave-length segment 106. The received RF signal is applied via a matching segment 107 to the common junction of segments 103 and 104. The LO signal is applied via matching segment 108 to the common junction of segments 105 and 106. The RF
signal splits equally at the junction of segments 103 and 104 and travels around the transmission line ring 100 a total of one-half wavelength via segments 104 and 105, and a total of one wavelength via segments 103, 102 and 106 to the - input junction of the LO signal, where the equal portions of the RF signal cancel since they are 180 out ~f phase. In a similar manner, the LO signal divides into equal portions at the junction of segments 105 and 106, which cancel at the input junction of the RF signal for the same reasons.
~17~}9 ~, Ill ad~lition, the equal portions of the ~l~ siynal are applied in phase with one anot~er to transistors 120 a~d 121 via segments 103 and 10~ and matching segments 109 and 110, respectively. ~lowever, equal portions of the LO signal are applied 180 out of phase with respect to one another to the transistors 120 and 121.
The bipolar transistors 120 and 121 may be any s~itable commercially available transistor, such as the Motorola MRF901. The bipolar transistors 120 and 121 are connected in a common-emitter configuration, although any other suitable configuration such as common-base may be used(see Fig 3). The emitters of bipolar transistors 120 and 121 are connected to biasing resistors 121 and 122 and capacitors 123 and 124, respectively, for bypassing the RF signal and LO signal.
The collectors of bipolar transistors 120 and 121 are con-nected via series ferrite chokes 125 and 126 to capacitors 127 and 128 and to the output reference transformer 132.
The ferrite chokes 125 and 126 may be one-half turn beads which are provided in series with the collectors of the bipolar transistors 120 and 121 to prevent spurious oscil-lations, or they may be omitted. I
A four-to-one ratio ferrite transformer may be used as the output transformer 132. The transformer 13~ transforms a balanced input to an unbalanced output, and may have two turns in the secondary winding. The secondary winding may I be connected to the first IF stage of the radio receiver. A
DC voltage +V is coupled to the primary of the transformer 132 for providing the proper collector bias for transistors 120 and 121. The DC voltage +V is connected via resistor 138 to capacitor 142 and resistor 139. The collector bias - voltage to transistors 120 and 121 is provided ~ia choke 134 and resistor 133 to the center tap of the primary winding of transformer 132. By applying the bias voltage through an R~
isolating choke at the center tap of transformer 132, instead of RF bypassing the center tap as in the prior art, the precise location of the center tap of transformer 132 .
is not highly critical to the operation of the balanced active mixer. Since the specifications of the transformer l32 may be relaxed, a much less expensive transformer may now be used. Furthermore, the tap on the primary ~inding of transformer may be located at any suitable location on the primary winding since the tap is floating at the inter-mediate frequency instead of being bypassed to ground.
The bias voltage for the bases of transistors 120 and 121 is provided by a resistor divider Eormed by resistors 139 and 140. The base bias voltage is applied via resistor 141 to the junction of segments 104, 105 and 110 and by way of the continuity provided by segment 110 to the base of transistor 121 and by segments 104, 103 and 109 to the base of transistor 120. This bias may be applied at any segment junction since its placement is not critical.
The singly-balanced active mixer circuit is advanta-geously adapted for use in any radio having a receiver with broadband front-end RF selectivity. In particular, when such radios have a receiver bandwidth that approaches one-half of the intermediate frequency, interference due toIF-related spurious frequencies may be encountered. How-ever, interference due to the one-half IF spurious signal will be greatly attenuated by utilizing a balanced active mixer circuit embodying the present invention. Lhe theoret-ical basis for the cancellation of the one-half IF spurious signal can be explained by the following equations by con-sidering the collector currents of transistors 120 and 121.
The equations are modelled after the FET drain current equations in U.S. Patent No. 3,716,730.
~ 30 The forward transfer characteristic of a bipolar tran-; sistor may be expressed by the admittance or y-parameters of the device. This forward transfer admittance may be repre-sented by a Taylor's series since the device is not linear over large input voltage variations. Let ic = Yo + Yl Vb + Y2 Vb + Y3 Vb + ...... + Yn Vb (1) 1~71~39 wherein:
ic ~ instantaneous collector current Vb = instantaneous base-to-emitter voltage Once a quiescent operating point is chosen for the transistor by applying a forward d.c. bias voltage, the Taylor's series may be expanded about this bias point.
c Yo Vdc + Yl Vb + Y2 Vb 2 ~ y3 vb ~ + ... + y vb'n
(2) wherein:
Vb VS ~ vo VS = Vs cos wst = desired input voltage at WS
vO = VO cos wot = local oscillator voltage at wO
vdc = the d.c. base forward biasing voltage.
In equation 2 above~ YO, Y2~ Y2~--- are th Taylor's series coefficients for the forward transfer admittance expanded about the quiescent bias point. The ''yOvdc'' term is the quiescent d.c. collector current without local oscillator injection. All other even y coefficients will contribute to the operating d.c. current.
The IF frequency, wIF, is expressed as WIF = jWs Wot The desired output of each mixer device, iCl and iC2, in response to an on-channel desired signal, VS is:
cl = Y2 (Vs + vo~2 + y4 tVs + Vo)4 + -c2 = Y2 (Vs ~ vo)2 ~ y4 (VS ~ Vo)4 + --^
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since the local oscillator signal is 180 out of phase at the seco~d mixer.
The ~ent,iO, in the secondary of the output transformer 132 will be proportional to the difference of the above ~, collector currents:
io icl ~ ic2 = Y2 [(Vs + vo)2 - (VS ~ Vo)2J ~ (4) y4 [(Vs ~ vO~ - (v5 - vO) ] ~ --Equation 4 may be simplified to:
io = 2 Vs VO [Y2 ~ 3/2 y4 (Vs2 ~ Vo2) + .. ~] (5) cos lWs - Wol t This equation provides the desired output product at the intermediate frequency to a desired input signal at fre-quency ws.
The undesired "IF spurious responses" such as the half-IF spur are produced by the higher even orders of the transfer function coefficients, Yn. The fourth-order coefficient , y4, is the term primarily responsible for the half-IF spur. Such a spurious response will occur at a ~- frequency of wr when . , ; 0 2 wr 2 wO Ws ~ wO. (6) :~ Since : WIF = lWs Wo ~ ' :
equation 6 may be reduced to ¦Wr - Wo¦ = WIFj2, .
: (7) and the spurious half-lF response will occur at a frequency midway between the frequency of the desired signal and the frequency of the local oscillator.
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The uncles:ired output of each mixer device in response to a spurious siynal at a frequency oE wr is given by:
cl = Y4 (Vr ~ vO) + Y6 (Vr +Vo)6 + -- (8) c2 = Y4 (Vr ~ vO) + Y6 (Vr vO) + ..~ .
These two equations may be simplifiecl to the following equations by retaining only the relevant terms:
cl [3/4 Y4 -~ l5/8 Y6 (Vr + Vo2) + ...] Vr2 Vo2 (10) cos 12wr ~ 2Wo¦ t c2 = [3/4 Y4 - lS/8 Y6 (Vr2 + Vo2) -~ ...] Vr2 Vo2 (ll~
cos ¦2wr - 2Wol t The current in the secondary of the output transformer 132 will be proportional to the difference of the above collector currents:
~' , io = icl ~ ic2 = [15/4 Y6 (Vr2 + Vo2) + ...] Vr2 Vo2(l2) cos ¦2wr - 2wo¦ t.
By using the singly-balanced mixer configuration the terms ~i produced by the fourth-order nonlinearity of the transfer ~ function completely cancel, but secondary products produced ;~ by higher order~nonlinearities such as Y6 and Ylo still remain. Since these higher order coefficients are much smaller, the response to a signal near a frequency of Wr will be greatly reduced by using the singly-balanced configuration as shown hereinabove.
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],o For example, a particular radio channel may have a transmitter re~uency of 835 ~lllz anc1 a receiver frequency of 880 ~3z. The LO signal for this duplex radio channel may be 835 MHz and the IF frequency may be 45 ~lHz. Due to fourth order mixing products between the LO signal of 835 MHz and a spurious signal of 857.5 ~IHz, a signal will be produced at the IF frequency of 45 MHz. However, since the two mixer collector currents are phased by 180~ with respect to one another, the fourth order mixing products essentially cancel at the primary of the transformer 132, as demonstrated here inabove. Thus, the one-half IF spurious signal is greatly attenuated by the balanced active mixer circuit of the pre-sent invention. If the transformer 132 is bypassed to ground at the center tap of the primary winding as in the prior art, the placement of the center tap of the primary winding is very critical to the balance of the balanced active mixer. Thus, imprecise positioning of the tap on the winding of the transformer 132 will degrade the spurious signal rejection of the prior art balanced mixers. However, the position of the tap on the primary winding of the trans-former 132 is not critical in the balanced active mixer cir-cuit of the present invention, since the tap of the primary winding is not bypassed to ground for the IF signal cur-rents.
In Fig. 2 there is illustrated another embodiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of the present invention.
Components of Fig. 2 corresponding to those of Fig. 1 are designated by the same reference number. The balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 2 is essentially the same as the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 1 except for - inclusion of a balanced PI network 129-131 between the chokes 125 and 126 and the output transformer 132, and addi-tional circuit elements 135, 136 and 137 in the DC biasing network. The PI network proYides impedance matching between the transistors and the following IF stage, and filtering centered about the intermediate frequency. The connection L7~19 -- ],1 of the IF signal to the following IF stage also provides for connection to a DC voltage source +V for the DC biasing net-work. The DC voltage +V is present across capacitor 135 and is coupled to resistor 138 via choke 136 and capacitor 137.
Thus, only one cable is necessary to connect both the IF
signal and the DC voltage +V.
The improved balancing feature of the transformer coupling to the following IF stage may be advantageously utilized in any suitable singly-balanced active mixer cir-cuit. Furthermore, the active devices of the balancedactive mixer circuit of the present invention may be FET
devices or any other suitable active devices (see Figs. 4 and 5).
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Vb VS ~ vo VS = Vs cos wst = desired input voltage at WS
vO = VO cos wot = local oscillator voltage at wO
vdc = the d.c. base forward biasing voltage.
In equation 2 above~ YO, Y2~ Y2~--- are th Taylor's series coefficients for the forward transfer admittance expanded about the quiescent bias point. The ''yOvdc'' term is the quiescent d.c. collector current without local oscillator injection. All other even y coefficients will contribute to the operating d.c. current.
The IF frequency, wIF, is expressed as WIF = jWs Wot The desired output of each mixer device, iCl and iC2, in response to an on-channel desired signal, VS is:
cl = Y2 (Vs + vo~2 + y4 tVs + Vo)4 + -c2 = Y2 (Vs ~ vo)2 ~ y4 (VS ~ Vo)4 + --^
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since the local oscillator signal is 180 out of phase at the seco~d mixer.
The ~ent,iO, in the secondary of the output transformer 132 will be proportional to the difference of the above ~, collector currents:
io icl ~ ic2 = Y2 [(Vs + vo)2 - (VS ~ Vo)2J ~ (4) y4 [(Vs ~ vO~ - (v5 - vO) ] ~ --Equation 4 may be simplified to:
io = 2 Vs VO [Y2 ~ 3/2 y4 (Vs2 ~ Vo2) + .. ~] (5) cos lWs - Wol t This equation provides the desired output product at the intermediate frequency to a desired input signal at fre-quency ws.
The undesired "IF spurious responses" such as the half-IF spur are produced by the higher even orders of the transfer function coefficients, Yn. The fourth-order coefficient , y4, is the term primarily responsible for the half-IF spur. Such a spurious response will occur at a ~- frequency of wr when . , ; 0 2 wr 2 wO Ws ~ wO. (6) :~ Since : WIF = lWs Wo ~ ' :
equation 6 may be reduced to ¦Wr - Wo¦ = WIFj2, .
: (7) and the spurious half-lF response will occur at a frequency midway between the frequency of the desired signal and the frequency of the local oscillator.
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The uncles:ired output of each mixer device in response to a spurious siynal at a frequency oE wr is given by:
cl = Y4 (Vr ~ vO) + Y6 (Vr +Vo)6 + -- (8) c2 = Y4 (Vr ~ vO) + Y6 (Vr vO) + ..~ .
These two equations may be simplifiecl to the following equations by retaining only the relevant terms:
cl [3/4 Y4 -~ l5/8 Y6 (Vr + Vo2) + ...] Vr2 Vo2 (10) cos 12wr ~ 2Wo¦ t c2 = [3/4 Y4 - lS/8 Y6 (Vr2 + Vo2) -~ ...] Vr2 Vo2 (ll~
cos ¦2wr - 2Wol t The current in the secondary of the output transformer 132 will be proportional to the difference of the above collector currents:
~' , io = icl ~ ic2 = [15/4 Y6 (Vr2 + Vo2) + ...] Vr2 Vo2(l2) cos ¦2wr - 2wo¦ t.
By using the singly-balanced mixer configuration the terms ~i produced by the fourth-order nonlinearity of the transfer ~ function completely cancel, but secondary products produced ;~ by higher order~nonlinearities such as Y6 and Ylo still remain. Since these higher order coefficients are much smaller, the response to a signal near a frequency of Wr will be greatly reduced by using the singly-balanced configuration as shown hereinabove.
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],o For example, a particular radio channel may have a transmitter re~uency of 835 ~lllz anc1 a receiver frequency of 880 ~3z. The LO signal for this duplex radio channel may be 835 MHz and the IF frequency may be 45 ~lHz. Due to fourth order mixing products between the LO signal of 835 MHz and a spurious signal of 857.5 ~IHz, a signal will be produced at the IF frequency of 45 MHz. However, since the two mixer collector currents are phased by 180~ with respect to one another, the fourth order mixing products essentially cancel at the primary of the transformer 132, as demonstrated here inabove. Thus, the one-half IF spurious signal is greatly attenuated by the balanced active mixer circuit of the pre-sent invention. If the transformer 132 is bypassed to ground at the center tap of the primary winding as in the prior art, the placement of the center tap of the primary winding is very critical to the balance of the balanced active mixer. Thus, imprecise positioning of the tap on the winding of the transformer 132 will degrade the spurious signal rejection of the prior art balanced mixers. However, the position of the tap on the primary winding of the trans-former 132 is not critical in the balanced active mixer cir-cuit of the present invention, since the tap of the primary winding is not bypassed to ground for the IF signal cur-rents.
In Fig. 2 there is illustrated another embodiment of the balanced active mixer circuit of the present invention.
Components of Fig. 2 corresponding to those of Fig. 1 are designated by the same reference number. The balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 2 is essentially the same as the balanced active mixer circuit of Fig. 1 except for - inclusion of a balanced PI network 129-131 between the chokes 125 and 126 and the output transformer 132, and addi-tional circuit elements 135, 136 and 137 in the DC biasing network. The PI network proYides impedance matching between the transistors and the following IF stage, and filtering centered about the intermediate frequency. The connection L7~19 -- ],1 of the IF signal to the following IF stage also provides for connection to a DC voltage source +V for the DC biasing net-work. The DC voltage +V is present across capacitor 135 and is coupled to resistor 138 via choke 136 and capacitor 137.
Thus, only one cable is necessary to connect both the IF
signal and the DC voltage +V.
The improved balancing feature of the transformer coupling to the following IF stage may be advantageously utilized in any suitable singly-balanced active mixer cir-cuit. Furthermore, the active devices of the balancedactive mixer circuit of the present invention may be FET
devices or any other suitable active devices (see Figs. 4 and 5).
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Claims (18)
1. A singly-balanced mixer circuit for developing an intermediate frequency (IF) signal for a radio transceiver operative on a plurality of radio channels, the radio transceiver having a receiving bandwidth approaching one-half of the IF
frequency, said balanced mixer circuit combining a received radio frequency (RF) signal with a local oscillator (LO) signal to provide the IF signal, said mixer circuit comprising:
(a) a strip transmission line ring having a first input coupled to the RF signal and a second input coupled to the LO signal for providing first and second output signals, the first and second output signals comprised of substantially equal components of the LO signal and RF
signal, the equal components of the LO signal phase shifted by 180° with respect to one another and the equal components of the RF signal in phase with each other; and (b) an active singly-balanced mixer including:
(i) first and second active devices coupled to the first and second output signals of the trans-mission line ring for providing first and second mixer signals, respectively;
(ii) an output transformer having a tap at a pre-determined location on the primary winding that is not bypassed at the RF and IF fre-quencies, the first and second mixer signals from the first and second active devices coupled to opposite ends of the primary wind-ing, IF components of the first and second mixer signals adding in phase in the primary winding, and the composite IF signal provided across the secondary winding; and (iii) a DC biasing network coupled to the tap of the primary winding of the output transformer for applying a predetermined bias voltage to the first and second active devices.
frequency, said balanced mixer circuit combining a received radio frequency (RF) signal with a local oscillator (LO) signal to provide the IF signal, said mixer circuit comprising:
(a) a strip transmission line ring having a first input coupled to the RF signal and a second input coupled to the LO signal for providing first and second output signals, the first and second output signals comprised of substantially equal components of the LO signal and RF
signal, the equal components of the LO signal phase shifted by 180° with respect to one another and the equal components of the RF signal in phase with each other; and (b) an active singly-balanced mixer including:
(i) first and second active devices coupled to the first and second output signals of the trans-mission line ring for providing first and second mixer signals, respectively;
(ii) an output transformer having a tap at a pre-determined location on the primary winding that is not bypassed at the RF and IF fre-quencies, the first and second mixer signals from the first and second active devices coupled to opposite ends of the primary wind-ing, IF components of the first and second mixer signals adding in phase in the primary winding, and the composite IF signal provided across the secondary winding; and (iii) a DC biasing network coupled to the tap of the primary winding of the output transformer for applying a predetermined bias voltage to the first and second active devices.
2. The mixer circuit according to claim 1, wherein the first and second active devices are bipolar transistors.
3. The mixer circuit according to claim 2, wherein the first and second bipolar transistors are arranged in a common-emitter configuration, the first and second output signals of the transmission line ring being applied to the bases of the first and second bipolar devices, respectively, and the DC biasing network being further coupled to the collectors, emitters and bases of the first and second bipolar devices.
4. The mixer circuit according to claim 3 wherein a choke is interposed between the DC biasing network and the tap of the output transformer for isolating the output transformer from the DC biasing network.
5. The mixer circuit according to claim 4, further including a balanced PI network interposed between the first and second devices and the output transformer, the balanced PI network selectively tuned to pass the IF signal.
6. The mixer circuit according to claim 2, wherein the first and second bipolar transistors are arranged in a common-base configuration, the first and second output signals being applied to the emitters of the first and second bipolar devices, respectively, and the DC biasing network being further coupled to the collectors, emitters and bases of the first and second bipolar devices.
7. The balanced mixer ciruit according to claim 6, wherein a choke is interposed between the DC biasing network and the center tap of the output transformer for isolating the output transformer from the DC biasing network.
8. The active mixer circuit according to claim 7, further including a balanced PI network interposed between the first and second devices and the output transformer, the balanced PI network selectively tuned to pass the IF signal.
9. The mixer circuit according to claim 5 or 8, wherein the LO signal is substantially the same frequency as the transmitting frequency of the radio transceiver, the transmission line ring providing a predetermined attenuation between the second input and the first input thereof for substantially preventing the LO signal from radiating via the first input.
10. The mixer circuit according to claims 5 or 8, wherein the output transformer is a center-tapped ferrite transformer having a four to one, primary to secondary winding, turns ratio.
11. The mixer circuit according to claim 5 or 8 further including first and second chokes interposed between the first and second active devices and the output transformer, respectively, for preventing spurious oscillations in the first and second active devices.
12. The mixer circuit according to claim 1, wherein the first and second active devices are field effect transistors.
13. The mixer circuit according to claim 12, wherein the first and second field effect transistors are arranged in a common-source configuration.
14. The balanced mixer circuit according to claim 12, wherein the first and second field effect transistors are arranged in a common-gate configuration.
15. The mixer ciruit according to claim 13 or 14 wherein a choke is interposed between the DC biasing network and the tap of the output transformer for isolating the output transformer from the DC biasing network.
16. A singly-balanced mixer circuit for developing an intermediate (requency (IF) signal for a radio transceiver operative on a plurality of radio channels, the radio transceiver having a receiving bandwidth approaching one-half the IF frequency, said balanced mixer circuit combining a received radio frequency (RF) signal with a local oscillator (LO) signal tuned to the same frequency as the transmitting frequency of the radio transceiver, to provide the IF signal, said balanced mixer circuit comprising:
(a) a strip transmission line ring having a first input coupled to the RF signal and a second input coupled to the LO signal for providing first and second output signals, the first and second output signals comprised of substan-tially equal components of the LO signal and RF signal, the equal components of the LO signal phase shifted by 180° with respect to one another, and the equal comonents of the RF
signal in phase with one another; and (b) an active balanced mixer including:
(i) first and second active devices coupled to the first and second output signals of the trans-mission line ring for providing first and second mixer signals, respectively;
(ii) first and second chokes coupled to the first and second active devices for filtering the first and second mixer signals, respectively;
(iii) a balanced PI network coupled to the first and second chokes for selectively passing IF com-ponents of the first and second mixer signals;
(iv) an output transformer having a center-tapped primary winding that is not bypassed at the RF
and IF frequencies, the balanced PI network coupling the IF signal from the first and second mixer signals to opposite ends of the primary winding, the IF components of the first and second mixer signals adding in phase in the primary winding, and the composite IF
signal provided across the secondary winding;
and (v) a DC biasing network including a third choke coupled to the center tap of the primary wind-ing of the output transformer for applying a predetermined bias voltage to the first and second active devices.
(a) a strip transmission line ring having a first input coupled to the RF signal and a second input coupled to the LO signal for providing first and second output signals, the first and second output signals comprised of substan-tially equal components of the LO signal and RF signal, the equal components of the LO signal phase shifted by 180° with respect to one another, and the equal comonents of the RF
signal in phase with one another; and (b) an active balanced mixer including:
(i) first and second active devices coupled to the first and second output signals of the trans-mission line ring for providing first and second mixer signals, respectively;
(ii) first and second chokes coupled to the first and second active devices for filtering the first and second mixer signals, respectively;
(iii) a balanced PI network coupled to the first and second chokes for selectively passing IF com-ponents of the first and second mixer signals;
(iv) an output transformer having a center-tapped primary winding that is not bypassed at the RF
and IF frequencies, the balanced PI network coupling the IF signal from the first and second mixer signals to opposite ends of the primary winding, the IF components of the first and second mixer signals adding in phase in the primary winding, and the composite IF
signal provided across the secondary winding;
and (v) a DC biasing network including a third choke coupled to the center tap of the primary wind-ing of the output transformer for applying a predetermined bias voltage to the first and second active devices.
17. The mixer circuit according to claim 16, wherein the first and second active devices are bipolar transistors arranged in a common-emitter configuration, the first and second output signals being applied to the bases of the first and second bipolar devices, respectively, the col-lectors of the first and second bipolar devices being coupled to the first and second chokes, respectively, and the DC biasing network being further coupled to the bases of the first and second bipolar devices.
18. The mixer circuit according to claim 16, wherein the first and second active devices are field effect tran-sistors.
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