A small package integrated two band mixer-oscillator SI-IC

Author

Wassener, H.-J.

Author_Institution

Telefunken Microelectronic GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany

Volume

39

Issue

3

fYear

1993

Firstpage

344

Lastpage

349

Abstract

Today´s tuners for TV and VCR show a trend toward smaller case dimensions and increased tuning ranges. The author presents a new mixer-IC which supports the development of such modern tunes by a two-band concept, resulting in minimized pin counting, low power consumption, good matching to the bandpass filter, a simple design-in, and low demand of PCB (printed circuit board) area. The RF data are comparable to those for prior mixer designs. The IC supports the development of a tuner which spans the whole VHF/UHF frequency range from 50 to 850 MHz

Keywords

elemental semiconductors; mixers (circuits); monolithic integrated circuits; packaging; radiofrequency oscillators; silicon; television receivers; video tape recorders; 50 to 850 MHz; PCB; RF data; Si; TV; UHF; VCR; VHF; bandpass filter; frequency range; integrated two band mixer-oscillator; low power consumption; matching; mixer-IC; printed circuit board; tuners; tuning ranges; Band pass filters; Circuit optimization; Energy consumption; Packaging; Printed circuits; Radio frequency; TV; Tuners; UHF integrated circuits; Video recording;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.234605

Filename

234605