Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Digital-to-analog converter with hybrid coupler
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Application No.: US17871683Application Date: 2022-07-22
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Publication No.: US12052024B2Publication Date: 2024-07-30
- Inventor: Filipe Tabarani , Timo W Gossmann
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: FLETCHER YODER PC
- Main IPC: H03M1/74
- IPC: H03M1/74 ; H03M1/00 ; H03M1/06 ; H04L27/20 ; H04L27/36 ; H03M1/66

Abstract:
The current disclosure is related to a column and line digital-to-analog converter (DAC) with a hybrid coupler for generating quadrature analog signals. The DAC may include an array of unit power amplifiers (cells). A first portion of the cells of the array may be coupled to a first column decoder to receive in-phase components of digital signals and a second portion of the cells may be coupled to a second column decoder to receive quadrature components of the digital signals. The first portion of the cells of the array may generate in-phase components of analog signals and the second portion of the cells of the array may generate quadrature components of the analog signals. A hybrid coupler of the DAC may receive the in-phase and quadrature components of the analog signals with a similar phase, delay the quadrature components by a phase delay (e.g., 90 degrees), and output the resulting analog signals.
Public/Granted literature
- US20240030929A1 DIGITAL-TO-ANALOG CONVERTER WITH HYBRID COUPLER Public/Granted day:2024-01-25
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