Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Fan-out multi-stage amplifier with configurable paths
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Application No.: US17448870Application Date: 2021-09-24
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Publication No.: US12244271B2Publication Date: 2025-03-04
- Inventor: Kyle David Holland , Jang Joon Lee , Rahul Kodkani , Aleksandar Miodrag Tasic , Chih-Fan Liao , Lai Kan Leung , Chiewcharn Narathong
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Norton Rose Fulbright US LLPQualcomm Incorporated
- Main IPC: H03F3/68
- IPC: H03F3/68 ; H03F1/56 ; H03F3/19 ; H03F3/21

Abstract:
An amplifier may include multiple stages, with the multiple stages arranged in a fan-out configuration. The fan-out configuration provides multiple amplified signals at multiple amplifier output nodes, which may be coupled to a shared set of downconverters. The shared downconverters may support processing of only a smaller bandwidth than the largest possible bandwidth of an input RF signal input to the amplifier. For example, the downconverters may support a bandwidth matching a smallest bandwidth of a supported RF signal. For example, when the amplifier is intended to support 5G mmWave RF signals and 5G sub-6 GHz RF signals, the downconverters may each individually support a bandwidth of carriers in the 5G sub-6 GHz RF signals but not individually support the entire bandwidth of a possible 5G mmWave RF signal.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230099161A1 FAN-OUT MULTI-STAGE AMPLIFIER WITH CONFIGURABLE PATHS Public/Granted day:2023-03-30
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