Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Switchable vramp limiter
- Patent Title (中): 可切换vramp限制器
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Application No.: US13961088Application Date: 2013-08-07
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Publication No.: US08750812B2Publication Date: 2014-06-10
- Inventor: Erik Pedersen , Søren Deleuran Laursen , Jean-Christophe Berchtold
- Applicant: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US NC Greensboro
- Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee: RF Micro Devices, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Greensboro
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H01Q11/12
- IPC: H01Q11/12 ; H04B1/04

Abstract:
A power amplification device is disclosed that includes a power amplification circuit operable to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal in accordance with an amplification gain, and a voltage regulation circuit operable to generate a regulated voltage. A regulated voltage level of the regulated voltage sets the amplification gain. To help prevent the voltage regulation circuit from saturating, the voltage regulation circuit is configured to reduce a voltage adjustment gain when the regulated voltage level reaches a threshold voltage level. In one embodiment, the threshold voltage level is set to be higher when a band-select signal indicates that the RF signal is being transmitted within a first frequency band, and is set to be lower when the band-select signal indicates that the RF signal is being transmitted within a second frequency band. The spectral performance of the power amplification device thus improves with regard to the second frequency band.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130321077A1 SWITCHABLE VRAMP LIMITER Public/Granted day:2013-12-05
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