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Simplified High Frequency Tuner  
Bluetooth® * ZigBee™ * Cellular Telephones * Wireless LAN
Cable Modems * Police & Fire Radio * AM/FM/XM Consumer Radio

The Simplified High Frequency Tuner technology uses an efficient low-IF architecture that can move your company's wireless products higher up the price/performance curve.

Whether you're in the business end of things or doing design work, you know how much component costs can hurt your company's bottom line, especially in the cost-sensitive consumer products market.

  • Reduce PLL costs with a Doubled PLL Step Size that works by making selective use of upper and lower low-IF frequency ranges; or

  • Relax component tolerances with Adaptive Image Avoidance to "dance around" strong interference and thus make the most of limited image rejection;

  • Use less-expensive silicon to fabricate your analog circuitry by taking advantage of a Low-IF Frequency Arrangement that offers efficient image rejection, 1/f noise immunity, and immunity from half-IF and self-mixing spurs;

  • Maintain image rejection while relaxing your tolerances for I,Q channel matching by digitally correcting with an efficient Variable-Phase Hilbert Transform; and

  • Make compact and high-performance delta-sigma A/D conversion practical at IF by using efficient Single-Stage One-Bit Decimation Filtering.

Patents

The Simplified High Frequency Tuner is covered by the following patents.

Contact

John Reagh, J.D.

Manager of Business Development and Legal Affairs

Direct line: 206-336-5537