• Patent Title: Radio-frequency Power Amplifier with Intermodulation Distortion Mitigation
  • Application No.: US17539977
    Application Date: 2021-12-01
  • Publication No.: US20230170859A1
    Publication Date: 2023-06-01
  • Inventor: Nitesh Singhal
  • Applicant: Apple Inc.
  • Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
  • Assignee: Apple Inc.
  • Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
  • Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
  • Main IPC: H03F3/24
  • IPC: H03F3/24 H04B1/40
Radio-frequency Power Amplifier with Intermodulation Distortion Mitigation
Abstract:
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. Radio-frequency power amplifier circuitry may include an amplifier, an input transformer for coupling radio-frequency input signals to the amplifier, an active inductor load coupled to the input transformer, and a second order intermodulation generation circuit configured to generate and inject a second order intermodulation product into the input transformer. The injected second order intermodulation product can be used to cancel out unwanted third order intermodulation products generated by the amplifier, which reduces intermodulation distortion experienced by the amplifier circuitry.
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