Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090238258 | Switched Mode Power Amplification - The invention concerns a method of amplifying a radio frequency signal, a switched mode power amplifying device and a radio transmission device comprising such a power amplifying device. The switched power amplifying device ( | 09-24-2009 |
20090311980 | Double-LINC Switched-Mode Transmitter - Disclosed herein are methods and apparatus for processing an input information signal having varying amplitude and phase to obtain an amplified output signal having the same amplitude and phase variation. In an exemplary method, an input information signal is decomposed into two pairs of constant-envelope component signals such that the vector sum of the first pair is orthogonal to the vector sum of the second pair, for desired signal amplitudes below a level corresponding to a pre-determined threshold. For desired signal amplitudes above this level, the input information signal is instead decomposed into two pairs of constant-envelope component signals such that the vector sum of the first pair is separated by less than ninety degrees from the vector sum of the second pair. The constant-envelope component signals may be amplified by highly-efficient non-linear amplifier elements and combined to obtain the amplified output signal. | 12-17-2009 |
20100109780 | Flexible Dynamic Range Amplifier - An amplifying device ( | 05-06-2010 |
20100182049 | Digital Phase Detection - A method of detecting a phase difference between a circuit output signal and a reference signal is useful in all digital phase locked loops. A plurality of feedback signals are generated from the circuit output signal by means of a process that includes phase interpolation, wherein the feedback signals are spaced apart from one another by a duration of time less than a period of the circuit output signal. At a moment in time, the number of feedback signals that are asserted (logic 1 or in alternative embodiments, logic 0) is counted. The count is indicative of the phase difference between the circuit output signal and the reference signal. | 07-22-2010 |
20110200076 | RF CLOCK GENERATOR WITH SPURIOUS TONE CANCELLATION - A clock generator circuit may generate a target clock signal and may include a pattern generator to generate a pre-distorted version of a modulation signal from patterns stored by the pattern generator. An up-converter may up-convert the pre-distorted version of the modulation signal and a radio frequency lock oscillator signal to obtain an RF clock signal having a desired frequency tone. A tone detection circuit may receive the RF clock signal and detect a presence of unwanted tones. A controller may write the patterns corresponding to the pre-distorted version of the modulation signal to the pattern generator based on the detected unwanted tones in the RF clock signal. | 08-18-2011 |
20130033321 | HIGH EFFICIENCY POWER AMPLIFIER - A power amplifier circuit utilizes a cross-coupled tapped cascade topology together with a technique of applying an RF injection current into a wideband node to provide a single-stage power amplifier with improved PAE, output power, and gain over a wide RF band. The amplifier circuit comprises a cross-coupled cascade transistor unit comprising a pair of cross-coupled cascode transistors, a cross-coupled switching transistor unit comprising a pair of cross-coupled switching transistors, and an RF current generator. RF current generator generates a differential RF injection current, while switching transistor unit amplifies the injection current to generate an amplified injection current at the wideband node of the amplifier circuit and the cascode transistor unit further amplifies the injection current to generate the desired amplified signal at the output of the amplifier circuit. The output signal amplitude generally depends on the differential injection current and the supply voltage V | 02-07-2013 |
20130194978 | Transceiver and Communication Device - A transceiver comprises a receiver, a transmitter, a signal transmission arrangement, a first signal transferring element, and a transformer having magnetically-connected first and second windings. The first signal transferring element is between the transmitter output and the signal transmission arrangement, which is arranged to transmit signals from the transmitter and to receive signals and provide them to the receiver. The first winding of the transformer is connected in parallel with the first signal transferring element, which has input and output impedances so that signals from the transmitter output reach the signal transmission arrangement, while signals from the signal transmission arrangement do not reach the transmitter output. As such, the first signal transferring element is arranged to transfer signals from the transmitter to the signal transmission arrangement such that the transmitter contribution to the signal in the first winding is suppressed. | 08-01-2013 |
20140009245 | Transceiver Front-End - A transceiver front-end of a communication device comprises a frequency blocking arrangement, which may be either a transmit frequency blocking arrangement or a receive frequency blocking arrangement. The frequency blocking arrangement has a blocking frequency interval associated with one of a transmit frequency and receive frequency, and a non-blocking frequency interval associated with the other of the transmit frequency and receive frequency. The frequency blocking arrangement is configured to block passage of signals in the blocking frequency interval between said signal transmission and reception node and either said receiver node or said transmitter node. The frequency blocking arrangement comprises a network of passive components comprising at least one transformer and a filter arrangement adapted to have a higher impedance value in the blocking frequency interval than in the non-blocking frequency interval. | 01-09-2014 |