Invention Application
- Patent Title: NxM crosspoint switch with band translation
- Patent Title (中): NxM交叉点切换带带转换
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Application No.: US10734604Application Date: 2003-12-11
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Publication No.: US20050005296A1Publication Date: 2005-01-06
- Inventor: Keith Bargroff , Bert Fransis , Keith Rampmeier , Raducu Lazarescu , Kostas Papathanasiou , Esa Tarvainen , Tony Mellissinos , Donghai Wang
- Applicant: Keith Bargroff , Bert Fransis , Keith Rampmeier , Raducu Lazarescu , Kostas Papathanasiou , Esa Tarvainen , Tony Mellissinos , Donghai Wang
- Main IPC: G06G7/12
- IPC: G06G7/12 ; H03D7/00 ; H03D7/14 ; H03G3/30 ; H04B1/10 ; H04B1/18 ; H04B1/26 ; H04B15/00 ; H04H40/90 ; H04N7/10 ; H04N7/20 ; H04Q3/52

Abstract:
An N×M crosspoint switch allows a signal from any one of the N inputs to be routed to one or more of the M crosspoint switch outputs. The switches within the crosspoint switch can be configured as voltage mode or current mode switches. In voltage mode switching an input to the crosspoint switch is provided to an input device, such as an amplifier, having a low output impedance. The output of the low impedance device is provided to a switch that connects the output of the low impedance device to a high input impedance device, such as a band translation device. In current mode switching, the low impedance output of the input device is connected to selectively activated high isolation transconductance devices having high input impedances. The outputs of the transconductance devices are connected to low impedance devices that operate as summing nodes.
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