Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Ninety-degree phase shifter circuit and corresponding ninety-degree phase-shifting method
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Application No.: US15053176Application Date: 2016-02-25
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Publication No.: US10033352B2Publication Date: 2018-07-24
- Inventor: Germano Nicollini , Roberto Modaffari , Marco Garbarino , Federico Guanziroli
- Applicant: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Applicant Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Current Assignee: STMICROELECTRONICS S.R.L.
- Current Assignee Address: IT Agrate Brianza
- Agency: Seed Intellectual Property Law Group LLP
- Priority: IT102015000034633 20150715
- Main IPC: G01C17/38
- IPC: G01C17/38 ; H03H11/18 ; G01C19/5776 ; G01C25/00

Abstract:
A phase shifter, which carries out a ninety-degree phase shift of a sinusoidal input signal having an input frequency, at the same input frequency, envisages: a continuous-time all-pass filter stage, which receives the sinusoidal input signal and generates an output signal phase-shifted by 90° at a phase-shift frequency that is a function of a RC time constant of the all-pass filter stage; and a calibration stage, which is coupled to the all-pass filter stage and generates a calibration signal for the all-pass filter stage, such that the phase-shift frequency is equal to the input frequency of the sinusoidal input signal, irrespective of variations of the value of the input frequency and/or of the RC time constant with respect to a nominal value.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170019087A1 NINETY-DEGREE PHASE SHIFTER CIRCUIT AND CORRESPONDING NINETY-DEGREE PHASE-SHIFTING METHOD Public/Granted day:2017-01-19
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