Patent ID: 7251298

Claim:
A receiver comprising: first mixing circuitry adapted to receive a received signal and multiply the received signal by a first local oscillator (LO) signal to provide an intermediate frequency (IF) signal; second mixing circuitry adapted to receive the IF signal from the first mixing circuitry and multiply the IF signal by a second LO signal to provide an output signal; a first divider circuit adapted to receive a reference signal from a reference oscillator and divide the reference signal by a first divisor N to provide the first LO signal; and a second divider circuit adapted to receive the reference signal from the reference oscillator and divide the reference signal by a second divisor M to provide the second LO signal, the first divisor N and the second divisor M are each integers greater than or equal to one (1), the second divisor M is not a multiple of the first divisor N, and a frequency of the reference signal and the first and second divisors N and M are selected such that the second mixing circuitry provides the output signal as a very low intermediate frequency (VLIF) signal having a VLIF offset.