Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imbalance detection and reduction for wideband balun
- Patent Title (中): 宽带平衡不平衡变换器的不平衡检测和减少
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Application No.: US12957684Application Date: 2010-12-01
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Publication No.: US08436695B2Publication Date: 2013-05-07
- Inventor: Fenghao Mu
- Applicant: Fenghao Mu
- Applicant Address: SE Stockholm
- Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
- Current Assignee Address: SE Stockholm
- Agency: Coats & Bennett, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H03H7/42
- IPC: H03H7/42 ; H01P3/08

Abstract:
A circuit converts a single-ended signal to differential signals that are balanced to have the same amplitudes and opposite phases. The circuit includes a balance tunable balun, a detector, and a controller. The balance tunable balun has a primary winding, a secondary winding, a control input, and a switched resistor-capacitor (RC) network. The primary winding receives the single-ended signal and the secondary winding outputs the differential signals. The control input receives a control signal and the switched RC network tunes an output imbalance of the balun responsive to this control signal. The detector detects the output imbalance and the controller generates the control signal to control the switched RC network to reduce that output imbalance. The circuit produces well balanced differential signals over a wide range of signal frequencies, even when asymmetries, process variations, or parasitic capacitance in the balun would otherwise result in imbalance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120139658A1 Imbalance Detection and Reduction for Wideband Balun Public/Granted day:2012-06-07
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