Wireless receiver

1. A device comprising:

an antenna to receive a first signal having a first frequency;

a first filter circuitry operable at the first frequency to divide the received first signal into a sequential series of signal components and filter each of the signal components;

a multi-phase mixer to down convert the filtered first signal to a second frequency that is less than the first frequency, and generate from the converted first signal at least four phase shifted second signals having the second frequency;

a second filter circuitry operable at the second frequency to filter the at least four phase shifted second signals, the second filter circuitry comprising a set of switches configured for energization with a clock signal operable at the second frequency to selectively couple the at least four phase shifted second signals to different respective baseband impedances; and

a matrix to combine the filtered at least four phase shifted second signals to form an output signal.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the first filter circuitry comprises a first set of switches clocked at a third frequency to divide the first signal into the sequential series of components, and a second set of switches clocked at the second frequency to selectively couple each of the sequential series of components to a baseband impedance, the third frequency less than the first frequency and greater than the second frequency.

3. The device of claim 2 , wherein a sum of the second frequency and the third frequency equals the first frequency.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the set of switches comprises an M×M matrix of switches to selectively couple the at least four phase shifted second signals to the different respective baseband impedances.

5. The device of claim 4 , wherein each of the at least four phase shifted second signals are independently and sequentially coupled with a respective one of the different respective baseband impedances by the matrix of switches during a clock cycle at the second frequency.

6. The device of claim 1 , wherein the different respective baseband impedances are substantially equal, and each of the at least four phase shifted second signals are sequentially coupled with all of the different respective baseband impedances by the set of switches.

7. The device of claim 1 , wherein the different respective baseband impedances are of substantially equal impedance.

8. A system comprising:

a first filter circuitry operable at a frequency of a wireless signal to filter the wireless signal, the first filter circuitry comprising a phase filter circuitry in cooperative operation with a band pass filter circuitry to filter the wireless signal;

a multi-phase mixer circuitry to convert the frequency of the wireless signal to a lower frequency and divide the wireless signal into at least four baseband signal components;

a second filter circuitry operable at the lower frequency to filter the baseband signal components, the second filter circuitry comprise the band pass filter circuitry to filter the at least four baseband signal components; and

a matrix to combine the baseband signal components to form an output signal.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein each of the first filter circuitry and the second filter circuitry comprise a matrix of switches, the matrix of switches included in the first filter circuitry and the matrix of switches included in the second filter circuitry independently switched at the lower frequency.

10. The system of claim 8 , wherein each of the baseband signal components have a substantially similar magnitude and are phase shifted with respect to each other.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein the first filter circuitry comprises a matrix of switches controlled by a first clock signal operable at the lower frequency, and a second clock signal operable at a third frequency that is between the frequency of the wireless signal and the frequency of the lower frequency.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the system is a system on a chip.

13. A method comprising:

wirelessly receiving at a receiver a signal having a first frequency;

filtering the received signal with a first filter circuitry operable at the first frequency;

down converting and phase shifting the signal with a multi-phase mixer circuitry to create at least four signals at a second frequency;

amplifying the at least four signals with an amplifier;

filtering the at least four signals with a second filter circuitry operable at the second frequency by matrix switching a plurality of switches included in the second filter circuitry with phase offset clock signals operable at the second frequency to selectively couple the at least four signals to a base band impedance; and

combining the at least four signals to form an output signal at the second frequency.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein filtering the received signal with the first filter circuitry operable at the first frequency comprises sequentially operating a first plurality of switches at a third frequency to generate a sequential series of signal components which are phase offset versions of the received signal and matrix switching a second plurality of switches with phase offset clock signals having the second frequency to selectively couple the sequential series of signal components to a base band impedance.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein operation of the first filter circuitry at the first frequency comprises using a combination of the second frequency and a third frequency different from the first frequency and the second frequency.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein matrix switching the plurality of switches included in the second filter circuitry comprises selectively closing some of the switches with one of the phase offset clock signals to couple each of the at least four signals to a different baseband impedance.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein combining the at least four signals to form an output signal comprises destructively summing feed through components at frequencies other than a desired frequency so that the output signal is at the desired frequency without feed through components at undesired frequencies.

18. The device of claim 1 , wherein at least some of the different respective baseband impedances have different respective impedance values.

19. The device of claim 18 , wherein the different respective impedance values vary in accordance with a desired magnitude of the at least four phase shifted second signals and a desired attenuation provided by the second filter circuitry.

20. The method of claim 16 , wherein the different baseband impedance comprises a plurality of different baseband impedances having substantially equal impedance values, or different impedance values.