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Granted Patent B2
US 11,716,107 · App. 16/746,910 · Granted Aug 1, 2023

Circuits with filters and acoustic resonators

Inventors: Jianxing Ni (San Jose, CA); Joshua James Caron (Madison, NC); Srivatsan Jayaraman (Santa Clara, CA); Reza Kasnavi (Solana Beach, CA); John G. Freed (Raleigh, NC)
Assignee: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
H04B1/18H03H7/463H03H9/706H03H9/725H04B1/0057H04B1/3827
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Patent No.
US 11,716,107
App. No.
16/746,910
Granted
Aug 1, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

Circuits with filters and acoustic resonators. In some embodiments, a radio-frequency circuit can include a plurality of nodes and a common node. The radio-frequency circuit can further include a signal path implemented between each of the plurality of nodes and the common node. Each corresponding signal path can include a filter having a first Q-factor value and a respective resonator having a second Q-factor value higher than the first Q-factor value.

Claims (27)

1. A radio-frequency circuit comprising:

a plurality of nodes;

a common node; and

a signal path implemented between each of the plurality of nodes and the common node, each signal path including a filter and a resonator, at least one of the signal paths including a switch configured to allow the respective resonator to be in a series arrangement with the corresponding filter, or to allow the respective resonator to be bypassed.

2. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein the plurality of corresponding signal paths are configured to support carrier aggregation of respective signals through the common node.

3. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein the plurality of nodes correspond to a plurality of input nodes, and the common node corresponds to an output node.

4. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein the radio-frequency circuit is configured as a multiplexer.

5. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 4 wherein the multiplexer is a diplexer, a triplexer, or a quadplexer.

6. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein the switch is implemented to be parallel with the respective resonator.

7. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein the filter of a respective signal path has a first Q factor value, and the corresponding resonator has a second Q factor value higher than the first Q factor value.

8. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein the resonator and the filter of each of the signal paths are connected in series in the corresponding signal path.

9. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 8 wherein the resonator is implemented upstream of the filter.

10. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 8 wherein the resonator is implemented downstream of the filter.

11. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 1 wherein each filter is a non-acoustic filter.

12. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 11 wherein each resonator is an acoustic wave resonator.

13. The radio-frequency circuit of claim 12 wherein the acoustic wave resonator is a surface acoustic wave (SAW) resonator or a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator.

14. A method for processing radio-frequency signals, the method comprising:

providing a signal through a path between each of a plurality of nodes and a common node; and

for at least one of the paths, passing the signal through a filter along the path, and passing the signal through a resonator along the path or through a switch to bypass the resonator.

15. The method of claim 14 wherein the passing of the signal through the filter occurs prior to the passing of the signal through the respective resonator or the switch.

16. The method of claim 14 wherein the passing of the signal through the filter occurs after the passing of the signal through the respective resonator or the switch.

17. A packaged module comprising:

a packaging substrate configured to receive a plurality of components; and

a radio-frequency circuit implemented on the packaging substrate and including a plurality of nodes, a common node, and a signal path implemented between each of the plurality of nodes and the common node, each corresponding signal path including a filter, at least one of the signal paths including a switch configured to allow the respective resonator to be in a series arrangement with the corresponding filter, or to allow the respective resonator to be bypassed.

18. The packaged module of claim 17 further comprising one or more low-noise amplifiers coupled to the radio-frequency circuit such that the radio-frequency circuit supports carrier aggregation of received signals.

19. The packaged module of claim 18 wherein the one or more low-noise amplifiers includes a broadband low-noise amplifier having an input coupled to the common node of the radio-frequency circuit.

20. The packaged module of claim 18 wherein the one or more low-noise amplifiers includes a narrowband low-noise amplifier implemented along each signal path.

Continuity (3)
Continuation 15196006 · Jun 28, 2016
Provisional Application 62186348 · Jun 29, 2015
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