SIGNAL SPLITTER

摘要

A controllable-gain circuit (TI, Rt, TS1, .., TS4) provides a first and a second pair of complementary gain-controlled signals (Ip1, Ip3; Ip2, Ip4) in response to an input signal (RFI). In each pair, one gain-controlled signal (Ipl, Ip2) is the input signal amplified with a gain G comprised in a range between a minimum gain Gmin and a maximum gain Gmax. The other gain-controlled signal (Ip3, Ip4) is the input signal amplified with complementary gain Gmax-G. A fixed-gain output circuit (Rfg, Nfg) makes a weighed sum (Ipl *Rfg + Ip3*Rfg) of one and the other gain-controlled signal in the first pair of complementary gain-controlled signals. The respective weighing factors for one and the other gain-controlled signal are substantially similar (Rfg). A controllable-gain output circuit (Rlg, Rhg, Nlg, Nhg) makes a weighed sum (Ip2*Rlg + Ip4*(Rlg+Rhg)) of one and the other gain­controlled signal in the second pair of complementary gain-controlled signals. The respective weighing factors for one and the other gain-controlled signal are substantially different (Rlg, Rlg+Rhg).