Patent ID: 9667290
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H01Q,H04B

Claim:
1. An electronic device, comprising: a housing; a baseband processor; a plurality of phased antenna arrays; a plurality of transceiver circuits each of which is associated with a respective one of the phased antenna arrays and each of which includes a radio-frequency transceiver; and a plurality of intermediate frequency signal paths each of which is coupled between the baseband processor and a respective one of the transceiver circuits, wherein each transceiver circuit includes an upconverter that receives intermediate frequency signals from the baseband processor over a respective one of the plurality of intermediate frequency signal paths and that upconverts those intermediate frequency signals to radio-frequency signals that are provided to a respective one of the phased antenna arrays and wherein each transceiver circuit includes a downconverter that receives radio-frequency antenna signals from that respective one of the phased antenna arrays and downconverts those received radio-frequency antenna signals to intermediate frequency signals that are conveyed to the baseband processor over the intermediate frequency signal path that is coupled to that respective transceiver circuit.