US9270322B2 - Printed circuit board and diplexer circuit - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to printed circuit boards for forming a diplexer circuit, more particularly but not exclusively to a diplexer circuit for a base station transceiver of a mobile communication system.
- Modern base station transceivers need to be operated at high efficiency levels to provide users of a mobile communication system with high data rate and quality services while keeping the power consumption and radiated power at a possible minimum. Therefore, power amplifiers (PA for abbreviation) and low noise amplifiers (LNA for abbreviation), building the high-frequency (HF for abbreviation)-front-end of a base station, should experience as low noise and interference as possible.
- PA power amplifier
- LNA low noise amplifiers
- HF high-frequency
- One possible source of noise and interference is a potential connection or crosstalk of the transmitter branch with the PA and the receiver branch with the LNA through a commonly used antenna, i.e. parts of the transmit signal may occur in the reception branch. Therefore, respective filter circuits can be utilized to attenuate such crosstalk.
- TDD time division duplex
- FDD frequency division duplex
- TDD transmission and reception are separated in the time domain, i.e. for a given time either transmission or reception is carried out at the base station transceiver.
- FDD transmission and reception are separated in the frequency domain, i.e. different frequency bands are used for transmission and reception.
- Diplexers can be based on two band-pass filters, separating the transmission band from the reception band in an FDD system.
- Two ports e.g., L and H, as abbreviations for low and high frequency band
- a third port e.g., S as abbreviation for signal
- the signals on ports L and H occupy disjoint frequency bands. Theoretically, the signals on L and H can coexist on port S without interfering with each other.
- the signal on port L may occupy a single low frequency band and the signal on port H may occupy a higher frequency band.
- the diplexer can consist of a low-pass filter connecting ports L and S and a high-pass filter connecting ports H and S.
- the isolation between the transmit-frequency band and the receive-frequency band in a FDD radio system is a very essential performance requirement for a base station transceiver. Due to the very high sensitivity of the receiver and the relatively much larger output power, the isolation, which is usually required between these two bands may be in the order of 70, 80, 90 or even 100 dB.
- Embodiments can be based on the finding that such degrees of isolation are very hard to achieve and the physical arrangement of such filters may determine very much the performance of the filter-architecture and therewith of an HF-front-end. Especially in active antenna array systems, this is important, since the required level of integration of the devices is high, which means that the TX-filter and RX-filter are placed very close together, which again causes coupling between the devices, reducing the isolation.
- Embodiments provide a printed circuit board (PCB for abbreviation) for forming a diplexer circuit comprising a first connector for connecting a first filter and a second connector for connecting a second filter, wherein the first connector and the second connector are located on opposite sides of the printed circuit board.
- PCB printed circuit board
- Such an embodiment may enable to arrange two filters on opposite sides of the PCB. It is a further finding that the isolation or the attenuation from one side of a PCB to the other may enable high integration level and high isolation levels at the same time. In other words, when placing the two filter circuits on opposite sides of the PCB they can be close together and well isolated from each other at the same time, so crosstalk may be suppressed to a high degree.
- connection is to be understood as an interconnect or means for mounting electronic devices, i.e. the first or the second filter.
- a connector may be implemented as a solder-patch, which can provide mechanical support and electrical support for a filter.
- the connectors may enable mounting of the filters on the front side and the back side of the PCB, where the PCB is between the connectors.
- solder-patches may be used to mount the filters and connect the housing of a filter to a certain voltage or reference potential.
- the housing of a filter can be soldered to a solder patch and connected to ground potential at the same time.
- Embodiments may also comprise a method for manufacturing a PCB with mounting a first connector on a first side and mounting a second connector on a second side of the PCB.
- the connectors may be connected among each other through the PCB or to a buried ground plane within the PCB.
- embodiments may comprise a method for manufacturing a diplexer circuit; such method may comprise a step of mounting a first filter on the first connector and mounting a second filter on the second connector of the PCB. These steps may comprise electrically connecting the first filter and the second filter with each other, with a buried ground plane and/or with a reference or ground potential.
- the printed circuit board may therefore be adapted for forming a diplexer of a base station transceiver, wherein the first filter corresponds to a transmission signal filter and the second filter corresponds to a reception signal filter.
- the first connector may correspond to a first solder-patch and the second connector may correspond to a second solder patch.
- the two solder-patches may enable mechanical and electrical connection of the filters to the PCB, achieving a mechanically stable and electrically well isolated implementation of both filters in close vicinity.
- the printed circuit board can comprise two layers of a non-conductive substrate and a conductive layer between the two non-conductive substrate layers.
- the conductive layer may serve as a shielding for fringing fields and leaking currents.
- the conductive layer may therefore be connected to a certain potential, e.g. it may be grounded. Therefore, the conductive layer may have a connector for grounding the conductive layer.
- the printed circuit board may further comprise another conductive layer separated from the conductive layer by an isolating layer.
- the conductive layer, the other conductive layer and the isolating layer can be between the two non-conductive substrate layers.
- the conductive layer and the other conductive layer, i.e. the first and the second conductive layer may be parallel and forming a wave guide structure.
- the wave guide structure may guide electromagnetic waves, fringing fields, or leaking currents away from the two filter structures and therewith enable a higher attenuation between the two filter structures.
- the wave guide structure can be adapted to a quarter of the wavelength of a center frequency based on a transmission band determined by the first filter and a reception band determined by the second filter. In other words, there is a certain bandwidth the transmission signals may have, located around a center frequency.
- the wave guide structure may be geometrically adapted to a certain wavelength for which the attenuation should be raised or for which the crosstalk should be suppressed. This wavelength could correspond to the center frequency of the transmission band, the center frequency of the reception band or any other frequency in between.
- the geometry of such a structure can be adapted to the strongest interference or crosstalk in embodiments, where the wavelength of the strongest interference may depend on the filter structures, their transfer function characteristics, etc. Embodiments may therefore be based on the finding that a conductive structure within a PCB can be geometrically adapted to a crosstalk between filter structures located on opposite sides of the PCB to suppress said crosstalk.
- the conductive layer and the other conductive layer may form a projection around the connector for the first filter and around the connector of the second filter.
- the conductive layer and the other conductive layer can be connected through a further connector or a via underneath the first and second connectors, wherein the projection may extend at least a quarter of the wavelength from the further connector or via.
- the printed circuit board may comprise any means for guiding an electromagnetic wave, the means for guiding the wave can be adapted for guiding the electromagnetic wave for at least a quarter of a wavelength of the wave.
- the printed circuit board may further comprise isolating means for isolating a side of the first connector from a side of the second connector to achieve attenuations for transmission band signals of more than 70, 80, 90 or 100 dB.
- Embodiments may also provide a diplexer circuit comprising an embodiment of the above circuit board, a first filter connected to the first connector for filtering a transmit signal in a transmission band, and a second filter connected to the second connector for filtering a receive signal in a reception band.
- the first and the second filter can be further connected to an antenna using a first feed-line and a second feed-line, wherein the first feed-line and the second feed-line can be located in parallel to the printed circuit board, or the first and the second filter are connected to the antenna using a common antenna port, wherein the printed circuit board comprises a feed connector or via for connecting the first and the second filter to the common antenna board.
- the diplexer may use a printed circuit board comprising two non-conductive substrate layers and at least one conductive layer between the two non-conductive substrate layers, wherein the conductive layer is adapted for providing attenuations between the transmission signal and the reception signal, which are higher than 70, 80, 90 or 100 dB.
- FIG. 1 a shows an embodiment of a printed circuit board
- FIG. 1 b shows two embodiments of diplexer circuits, each using an embodiment of a printed circuit board, one with separate and one with a common antenna port;
- FIG. 1 c shows a connector of an embodiment
- FIG. 1 d shows another connector of an embodiment
- FIG. 1 e shows another embodiment of a diplexer circuit using an embodiment of a printed circuit board with a wave guide structure
- FIG. 2 a shows an embodiment of a diplexer circuit
- FIG. 2 b shows another embodiment of a diplexer circuit
- FIG. 3 a shows a diplexer circuit in a single housing
- FIG. 3 b shows a diplexer circuit in separate housings.
- FIG. 1 a shows an embodiment of a printed circuit board 100 for forming a diplexer circuit comprising a first connector 110 for connecting a first filter and second connector 120 for connecting a second filter, wherein the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 are located on opposite sides of the printed circuit board 100 .
- the connectors 110 , 120 may enable mechanical mounting and electrical connecting of the filters on the front side and the back side of the PCB.
- embodiments may provide a method for manufacturing a printed circuit board 100 for forming a diplexer circuit.
- the method may comprise a step of implementing the first connector 110 for connecting a first filter on a first side of the printed circuit board 100 and a step of implementing a second connector 120 for connecting a second filter 122 on a second side of the printed circuit board 100 .
- the first connector 110 and the second connector 120 are located on opposite sides of the printed circuit board 100 .
- the first connector 110 may be located on a front side and the second connector 120 may be located on the back side of the PCB 100 .
- FIG. 1 b shows two embodiments of diplexer circuits 200 , each using an embodiment of a printed circuit board 100 , one with separate antenna ports or feed-lines 116 , 126 , and one with a common antenna port 160 .
- the embodiment at the top of FIG. 1 b will be described first, the embodiment at the bottom of FIG. 1 b has similar components except for the feed-line or antenna ports. The description of similar components of the embodiment at the bottom will be omitted.
- the embodiment at the top of FIG. 1 b shows the printed circuit board 100 with the two connectors 110 and 120 .
- the embodiment further shows the mounted first filter 112 and the mounted second filter 122 .
- the broken-line structure 124 in the second filter 122 indicates a resonator structure, which is also assumed to be present in the first filter 110 .
- the printed circuit board 100 can be adapted for forming a diplexer of a base station transceiver, wherein the first filter 112 may correspond to a transmission signal filter or block filter and the second filter 122 may correspond to a reception signal filter or block filter.
- the first filter 112 and the second filter 122 may be soldered on the PCB 100 .
- the first connector 110 may correspond to a first solder-patch and the second connector 120 may correspond to a second solder patch.
- the printed circuit board 100 comprises two layers 132 , 134 of a non-conductive substrate and a conductive layer 130 between the two non-conductive substrate layers 132 , 134 .
- the conductive layer may comprise a metal, for example, it may comprise copper or aluminum.
- To the two non-conductive layers 132 , 134 may also be referred to as first non-conductive layer 132 and second non-conductive layer 134 .
- the PCB 100 may comprise at least one connection or via 140 between the first connector 110 and the conductive layer 130 .
- the PCB 100 may comprise at least one connection or via 142 between the second connector 120 and the conductive layer 130 . In the embodiment shown in FIG. 1 b multiple such connections are shown, of which only connection 140 and 142 are referenced.
- the conductive layer 130 may have a connector for grounding the conductive layer 130 .
- the arrow 150 indicates coupling currents which are isolated by the conductive layer 130 , which may serve as a ground plane.
- the vias 140 , 142 may ensure contact between the ground plane 130 and the solder-patches 110 and 120 .
- the arrows 152 indicate fringing fields, which are also isolated by the ground plane 130 .
- the figure at the bottom of FIG. 1 b shows a similar embodiment but with a common antenna port 160 instead of separate feed-lines 116 and 126 as indicated in the embodiment shown at the top.
- embodiments may provide a diplexer circuit 200 , wherein the first and the second filter 112 , 122 are further connected to an antenna using a first feed-line 116 and a second feed-line 126 , wherein the first feed-line 116 and the second feed-line 126 are located or run in parallel to the printed circuit board 100 .
- the first and the second filter 112 , 122 can be connected to the antenna using a common antenna port 160 and the printed circuit board 100 can comprise a feed connector or via for connecting the first and the second filter 112 , 122 to the common antenna port 160 .
- FIG. 1 b illustrates an embodiment wherein filters 112 , 122 are placed on opposite sides of PCB 100 , increasing the decoupling by a ground plane 130 and with the possibility to form a common (antenna) port (cf. embodiment at the bottom).
- embodiments may provide a diplexer circuit 200 , wherein the printed circuit board 100 comprises two non-conductive substrate layers 132 , 134 and at least one conductive layer 130 between the two non-conductive substrate layers 132 , 134 , wherein the conductive layer 130 is adapted for providing an attenuation between the transmission signal and the reception signal, which is higher than 70, 80, 90 or 100 dB.
- FIG. 1 c shows an exemplified connector 110 , 120 of an embodiment of a printed circuit board.
- the connector 110 , 120 may correspond to a connector for a ceramic block filter, as is indicated by the plane structure footprint in FIG. 1 c .
- the connectors 110 , 120 may correspond to means for mounting the filters 112 , 122 .
- the connectors 110 , 120 may serve as means for mechanically stabilizing the filters 112 , 122 on the PCB and on the other hand they may electrically connect the filters 112 , 122 to the PCB.
- the connectors 110 , 120 may connect the housing of the filters 112 , 122 to the conductive layer 130 using the vias 140 , 142 .
- FIG. 1 c shows a plane connector or soldering patch 110 , 120 , which comprises multiple vias or connections to an underlying conductive layer, where in FIG. 1 b only two connections or vias 140 , 142 are referenced.
- the underlying conductive layer may correspond to a buried ground layer.
- the white dots within the connector 110 , 120 indicate that there can be a plurality of connections to the underlying conductive layer in embodiments.
- FIG. 1 c shows a connector or solder-patch 116 a , 126 a which can be used to connect a filter 112 , 122 to the feed-lines 116 , 126 or to the antenna path as described above.
- the connector 105 in FIG. 1 c may serve to connect to an input or output port of a filter 112 , 122 , i.e. the TX-port of a transmission filter 110 or the RX-port of a reception filter 120 .
- FIG. 1 d shows another connector 110 , 120 of an embodiment of a PCB.
- FIG. 1 d shows similar components as the connector 110 , 120 described in FIG. 1 c , but multiple connectors are shown. While FIG. 1 c illustrates a plane connector 110 , 120 , FIG. 1 d shows a connector field or patch field being comprised of multiple connectors 110 , 120 .
- the structure of connectors 110 , 120 may correspond to a connector for an SAW (as abbreviation for surface-acoustic-wave) filter, as is indicated by the patch-field structure footprint in FIG. 1 d .
- the outline of the filter 112 , 122 is indicated by the broken line 107 in FIG. 1 d .
- the filter 112 , 122 may be connected to multiple connectors 110 , 120 , of which at least some may have a via or connection 140 , 142 to the conductive layer 130 , which may correspond to a buried ground layer.
- FIG. 1 d also shows the port-connector or solder-patch 105 and the antenna path connector or solder-patch 116 a , 126 a as has already been detailed above.
- Embodiments may also provide a method for manufacturing a PCB 100 with mounting a first connector 110 on a first side and mounting a second connector 120 on a second side of the PCB 100 .
- the connectors 110 , 120 may be connected among each other through the PCB 100 or to a buried ground plane 130 within the PCB 100 .
- embodiments may provide a method for manufacturing a diplexer circuit 200 ; such method may comprise a step of mounting a first filter 112 on the first connector 110 and mounting a second filter 122 on the second connector 120 of the PCB 100 . These steps may comprise electrically connecting the first filter 112 and the second filter 122 with each other, with a buried ground plane 130 and/or with a reference or ground potential.
- FIG. 1 e shows another embodiment of a diplexer circuit 200 using an embodiment of a printed circuit board 100 with a wave guide structure.
- the printed circuit board 100 further comprises another conductive layer 178 separated from the conductive layer 176 by an isolating layer 172 , the conductive layer 176 , the other conductive layer 178 and the isolating layer 172 being between the two non-conductive substrate layers 132 , 134 .
- the conductive layer 176 may also be referred to as the first conductive layer 176
- the other conductive layer 178 may also be referred to as the second conductive layer 178 .
- the conductive layer 176 and the other conductive layer 178 can be parallel and they can form a wave guide structure.
- the wave guide structure can be adapted to a quarter of the wavelength of a center frequency based on a transmission band determined by the first filter 112 and a reception band determined by the second filter 122 .
- the conductive layer 176 and the other conductive layer 178 may form a projection or shielding around the connector 110 for the first filter 112 and the connector 120 of the second filter 122 , wherein the conductive layer 176 and the other conductive layer 178 are connected through a further connector 174 or a via 174 underneath the first and second connectors 110 , 120 , wherein the projection or shielding extends at least a quarter of the wavelength from the further connector or via 174 .
- the projection or shielding may be formed by the two conductive layers 176 , 178 being mounted within the PCB with a gap in between, wherein the gap may extend to a quarter of the wavelength.
- the extent of the projection or wave guide structure is also indicated in FIG. 1 e by the distance of
- FIG. 1 e illustrates an embodiment, which provides an improved ground plane with a leakage-current-suppressing ground-plane structure.
- the printed circuit board 100 may comprise means for guiding an electromagnetic wave, the means for guiding the wave can be adapted for guiding the electromagnetic wave for at least a quarter of a wavelength of the wave.
- Such means may for example correspond to the above-described geometrical structure of the conductive layers in a PCB.
- the PCB 100 can further comprise isolating means for isolating a side of the first connector 110 from a side of second connector 120 to achieve attenuation for transmission band signals of more than 70, 80, 90 or 100 dB.
- the isolating means may correspond to the conductive layer described for the above embodiments.
- Embodiments may also provide a diplexer circuit 200 comprising an embodiment of the circuit board 100 , a first filter 112 connected to the first connector 110 for filtering a transmit signal in a transmission band, and a second filter 122 connected to the second connector 120 for filtering a receive signal in a reception band.
- FIG. 2 a an architecture or diplexer-configuration for an implementation of an FDD-radio is shown.
- FIG. 2 a shows a diplexer circuit 200 , with a transmit path, in which a PA 400 is located, followed by a PA-port 302 of the diplexer 200 , which connects to the antenna using antenna port 306 .
- the diplexer circuit 200 connects to an LNA 410 through LNA-port 304 .
- the isolation between the PA-port 302 and the LNA-port 304 is achieved only by the filters 112 , 122 in the diplexer circuit 200 .
- the two filters 112 , 122 are molded into one single physical entity and the coupling between the PA-port 302 and the LNA-port 304 is therefore not so much influenced by the mounting of the filters 112 , 122 .
- a structure i.e. a structure wherein the two filters 112 , 122 are implemented in a single housing, may also comprise the above described PCB 100 , where the PCB 100 can be adapted accordingly, i.e. adapted to fit with the housing.
- the PCB 100 may also provide means for mounting of further components.
- FIG. 2 b shows another embodiment of a diplexer circuit 200 , which shows similar components as the embodiment in FIG. 2 a , however, the two filters 112 , 122 are in separate physical entities and the embodiment therefore utilizes two antenna ports 306 a and 306 b according to a band-pass-filter-configuration with a 2-port-antenna.
- isolation between the ports 302 , 304 may be further increased by the isolation between the two antenna-ports 306 a and 306 b . This isolation can be achieved e.g. by two orthogonal polarizations, e.g. in a dual-polarized dipole or patch antenna.
- embodiments may provide an advantage of being able to place the two filters 112 , 122 closely, achieving a high level of integration, while at the same time achieving a high level of isolation through the PCB 100 separating the filters and, in some embodiments, having further integrated isolating or shielding means.
- the size and weight of the filters 112 , 122 may be adapted to enable mounting them on opposite sides of the circuit board 100 .
- filters which are small enough to be used as surface mounted devices like ceramic block filters (CB for abbreviation), SAW or film-bulk-acoustic-resonator-filters (FBAR for abbreviation) can be used.
- ceramic block filters can be used, but embodiments shall not be limited to ceramic filter technology, other filter technologies can also be applied.
- FIG. 3 a shows a diplexer circuit in a single housing 500 implemented as block-filter, e.g. as a ceramic block-filter.
- FIG. 3 a illustrates a surface mounted block diplexer, in which TX- and RX-filter form one single physical entity, limiting isolation by fringing fields and leakage currents, used in a radio-architecture as shown in FIG. 2 a .
- the diplexer comprises a receive-band filter (RX-band-filter) at the top and a transmit-band-filter (TX-band-filter) at the bottom.
- the diplexer comprises resonator structures 502 and coupling structures 504 .
- FIG. 1 shows a diplexer circuit in a single housing 500 implemented as block-filter, e.g. as a ceramic block-filter.
- FIG. 3 a illustrates a surface mounted block diplexer, in which TX- and RX-filter form one single physical entity, limiting isolation by fringing fields and leakage currents, used
- FIG. 3 a shows three ports, a receive port 506 , a transmit port 508 and a common antenna port 510 .
- several signal lines 512 and a PCB 514 are indicated in FIG. 3 a .
- a broken line arrow on the right hand side indicates fringing fields between the resonators, which lead to coupling between the TX-port 508 and the RX-port 506 and which therefore limit the isolation.
- the broken line arrows indicate leaking currents on the surface metallization of the filter, which lead to coupling between the TX-port 508 and the RX-port 506 and which also limit the isolation.
- Such filter devices usually are available as two separate performing devices, except they are built in a diplexer-function within one single entity, see FIG. 3 a .
- a diplexer implemented as one single entity e.g. using the conventional approach, may have the disadvantage that leaking currents flow on the same surface, therefore the isolation is hard to achieve once it goes beyond a certain level (approximately more than 60 dB). This may usually not be enough in terms of isolation performance.
- FIG. 3 b shows a diplexer circuit in separate housings, where the transmit-band-filter is shown on the left and the receive-band-filter is shown on the right.
- FIG. 3 b illustrates two surface mounted block filters, in which TX- and RX-filter form two separate physical entities, increasing isolation by fringing fields and leakage currents, but limiting the use to radio-architectures as shown in FIG. 2 b .
- FIG. 3 b shows similar components as FIG. 3 a , i.e. the two filters comprise resonator and coupling structures.
- the diplexer uses separate housings there also are separate antenna ports 510 a and 510 b .
- TX-band-filter and RX-band-filter are built as two entities, they still have to be placed next to each other to form a diplexer function, see FIG. 3 b , again leading to coupling by fringing fields and currents running on the common ground-plane.
- These disadvantages may be overcome in embodiments, by separating the two filters 112 , 122 by the PCB 100 , i.e. by mounting the two filters 112 , 122 on opposite sides of the PCB 100 .
- the filters can be placed on opposite sides of the circuit board. This may enable the introduction of an isolating ground plane in a multi-layer-PCB, which can act as an isolating plane, shielding the two filters from each other.
- Embodiments may therefore allow constructing highly integrated radio structures while maintaining a high isolation between the two filters despite their close vicinity.
- Embodiments may overcome disadvantages resulting from e.g. encapsulating boxes, which are expensive and increase the mechanical- and circuit-layout-effort.
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