WO2004013927A1 - 高周波回路 - Google Patents
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- H01P—WAVEGUIDES; RESONATORS, LINES, OR OTHER DEVICES OF THE WAVEGUIDE TYPE
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- H01P1/10—Auxiliary devices for switching or interrupting
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- H03K17/687—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the components used by the use, as active elements, of semiconductor devices the devices being field-effect transistors
- H03K17/6871—Electronic switching or gating, i.e. not by contact-making and –breaking characterised by the components used by the use, as active elements, of semiconductor devices the devices being field-effect transistors the output circuit comprising more than one controlled field-effect transistor
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- the present invention relates to a high-frequency circuit having a shunt path including an active element between a high-frequency transmission path and a ground, and particularly to a high-frequency circuit suitable for use as an ASK modulator or SPST switch. .
- ASK Amplitude Shifting; Amplitude Shift Keying
- a main high-frequency circuit such as a modulator
- a high-frequency transmission path and a path from the high-frequency transmission path to a ground (GND) ie, a shunt
- An active element such as a FET (charge effect transistor) is arranged in each of the shunt paths, and switching is performed by alternately opening and closing the active elements in these paths.
- FIG. 12 shows a basic configuration example of a conventional high-frequency circuit.
- FETQ 101 is arranged on the high-frequency transmission path 101 side.
- the capacitor C 101, the FET Q 102 and the capacitor C 102 are connected in series between the high-frequency transmission path 101 and the ground.
- the FETs Q101 and Q102 perform ON (closed) and 0FF (open) operations alternately by applying control signals A and AX having opposite phases to each gate, respectively. .
- ASK modulation is based on the magnitude of the RF (high frequency) signal. This is a modulation method, and it can function with the same configuration as the SPST (single pole singles port ⁇ ; single pole single throw) switch.
- the transmission frequency exceeds several GHz, especially when the transmission frequency reaches 5 to 6 GHz, which is used in ETC (Electronic Tall Collection; automatic toll collection) systems and wireless home networks, etc.
- ETC Electronic Tall Collection; automatic toll collection
- the ⁇ FF capacitance of F ET refers to a capacitance component that appears between the drain and the source when F ET is in the 0 FF state.
- FIG. 13 shows an equivalent circuit when the high-frequency transmission path 101 is ON (Q 101 is 0 N) and the shunt path 102 is OFF (Q 102 is OFF).
- the OFF capacitance C off is sufficiently smaller than the capacitances of the DC cut capacitors C 101 and C 102, and the ON resistance R on of the FET Q 101 is about several ⁇ . Therefore, the circuit characteristics in Fig. 13 are dominantly determined by the power leakage due to the OFF capacitance Coff.
- the FETQ 101 of the high-frequency transmission path 101 has an OFF capacity Coff, and leaks power.
- the present invention has been made in view of the above problems, and has as its object to reduce path loss even in a high-frequency region, and to ensure a sufficient isolation. It is to provide a high frequency circuit. Disclosure of the invention
- a high-frequency circuit according to the present invention has a plurality of shunt paths including an active element and an impedance element between a high-frequency transmission path and a ground, and the plurality of shunt circuits are provided for each active element.
- a parallel resonance circuit is formed by the impedance element when turned on, and a series resonance circuit is formed by the impedance element when turned off.
- the plurality of shunt circuits equivalently form a parallel resonance circuit using the impedance element when the active element is in the ON state.
- shunt direction the resistance in the shunt circuit direction
- through direction the direction of the harmonic transmission path
- the multiple shunt circuits equivalently form a series resonance circuit using impedance elements.
- this series resonance circuit by adjusting the resonance frequency to the operating frequency, the resistance in the shunt direction can be reduced and the transmitted power in the through direction can be reduced.
- FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration example of a high-frequency circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a circuit diagram in which the active element is represented by an ON resistance when the active element is ON.
- FIG. 3 is an equivalent circuit diagram showing a parallel resonance circuit formed when the active element is ON.
- FIG. 4 is a circuit diagram in which the active element is represented by an OFF resistance when the active element is OFF.
- FIG. 5 is an equivalent circuit diagram showing a series resonance circuit formed when the active element is OFF.
- FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram showing a high-frequency circuit according to a specific example of one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a simulation result of a high-frequency circuit according to a specific example.
- FIG. 8 is a circuit diagram in which a high-frequency circuit according to a conventional example is modified for high-frequency use as a comparison of simulation results.
- FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a simulation result of a high-frequency circuit according to a conventional example.
- FIG. 10 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration example of a high-frequency circuit according to a modification of one embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 11 is a circuit diagram showing a circuit example of a multi-port switch according to an application example of the present invention.
- FIG. 12 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration example of a high-frequency circuit according to a conventional example.
- FIG. 13 is an equivalent circuit diagram of the conventional high-frequency circuit at ON. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION
- FIG. 1 is a circuit diagram showing a configuration example of a high-frequency circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention.
- the high-frequency circuit is composed of a plurality of, for example, two shunt circuits having active elements and impedance elements: Ll, 12 power, and these shunt circuits.
- the circuit circuits 11 and 12 are formed on the same substrate.
- the shunt circuit 11 has a configuration including an active element 14 and an inductor L1 connected in series between the high-frequency transmission path 13 and the ground.
- the other shunt circuit 12 is connected in parallel with the capacitor C and the inductor L2 connected in series between the ground and the high-frequency transmission path 13 and the inductor L2.
- the active element 15 is provided.
- the active elements 14 and 15 are ON / OFF controlled by a common control signal A.
- the control signal A can be transmitted through a single control line, thereby simplifying the circuit configuration. It can be achieved.
- FETs, PIN diodes, and the like can be used as the active elements 14 and 15.
- the high-frequency circuit is in the ON state.
- the active elements 14 and 15 are equivalently regarded as ⁇ N resistance R on.
- the ON resistance R on is sufficiently small and can be regarded as a short. Therefore, as shown in Fig. 3, the present high-frequency circuit in the ⁇ N state is equivalently a parallel resonance circuit of the inductor L1 and the capacitor C.
- the impedance Z on of the parallel resonant circuit is
- the resistance in the shunt direction can be increased, and the transmission efficiency in the through direction (high-frequency transmission path) can be improved.
- the resonance frequency by adjusting the resonance frequency to the operating frequency, the resistance in the shunt direction is increased, and Low loss transmission characteristics can be realized in the through direction. .
- the admittance Y 2 is only the component of the inductor L 2, and equivalently as a circuit, As shown in Fig. 5, a series resonance circuit of the inductor L2 and the capacitor C is formed.
- ⁇ 2 1 / L 2 C... (6).
- the active elements 14 and 15 and the impedance elements are connected.
- a parallel resonance circuit by (L1, C) and a series resonance circuit by impedance elements (C, L2) when OFF low loss at the frequency used when ON. Transmission characteristics, and when OFF, the resistance in the shunt direction is reduced and the transmitted power in one direction is reduced. be able to.
- FIG. 6 is a circuit diagram showing a specific circuit example of the present embodiment.
- the active elements 14 and 15 are, for example, FET made of a GaAs (gallium arsenide) -based material that is optimal for high-frequency processing.
- one shunt circuit 11 ′ includes a capacitor C l, a FETQ 1, a capacitor C 2, and an inductor L 1 in series between the high frequency transmission path 13 and the ground.
- the configuration is connected to.
- the other shunt circuit 12 ′ includes a capacitor C and an inductor L 2 connected in series between the high frequency transmission path 13 and the ground, and a capacitor C 3, FETQ
- the capacitors C 1, C 2, and C 2 are used for DC cut in order to apply a bias to FET Q 1 and Q 2.
- Fig. 9 shows the simulation results when the circuit shown in Fig. 8 according to the conventional example was used.
- the circuit shown in Fig. 8 is a modified version of the conventional circuit shown in Fig. 12 for high frequencies.
- the isolation at OFF is 21 dB, but the loss at ⁇ N is as large as about 2 dB. .
- the high-frequency circuit according to the present specific example has the same degree of isolation at 0 FF as compared to the high-frequency circuit according to the conventional example, but has a similar high frequency circuit at the ON state. It can be seen that the loss of about 1.5 dB has been reduced in the high frequency range.
- the element area on the IC can be reduced.
- the inductance component of one wire is 0.7 nF and 0.4 nF when two wires are driven in parallel, so in the circuit example shown in Fig. 6, the inductor L 2 As for L3 and L3, the inductance component of the wire is used instead, and only an inductor of 0.4 nF is required to be built in the IC as the inductor L1, so that the element area on the IC can be reduced.
- the high-frequency circuit according to the present embodiment or its modification described above can be used as an ASK modulator, an SPST switch, or the like. Further, by arranging a plurality of high-frequency circuits according to the present embodiment or its modified example, it is possible to apply the present invention to a multi-port switch such as an SPST switch.
- Figure 11 shows a specific circuit example of this multi-port switch.
- the high-frequency transmission path 13 is branched into two systems A and B at a branch point B.
- Phase converters 21 and 22 such as strip-lines for shifting the phase by ⁇ Z4 are inserted into the two high-frequency transmission paths 13A and 13B.
- the phase converters 21 and 22 are inserted in order to prevent the amplitude of the branch point ⁇ of the RF from decreasing when one of the ports is short-circuited.
- Shunt circuits 11 and 12 shown in Fig. 1 are connected between the two high-frequency transmission paths 13A and 13B and ground, and the A-system shunt circuits 11A and 12 A and B shunt circuits 11 B and 12 B are arranged.
- the active switches 14 A and 15 A of the A-system shunt circuits 11 A and 12 A are controlled by the control signal A. ON / OFF control is performed, while the active switches 14B and 15B of the B-system shunt circuits 11B and 12B are controlled by the control signal AX having the opposite phase to the control signal A. 0 NZ 0 FF controlled.
- a plurality of shunt paths including an active element and an impedance element are provided between a high-frequency transmission path and a ground.
- a parallel resonance circuit is formed by the impedance element when each active element is turned on, and a series resonance circuit is formed by the impedance element when the active elements are turned off.
- Path loss can be reduced and sufficient isolation can be secured.
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