Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Bi-directional power supply signal based linear amplifier
- Patent Title (中): 基于双向电源信号的线性放大器
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Application No.: US14176611Application Date: 2014-02-10
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Publication No.: US09178472B2Publication Date: 2015-11-03
- Inventor: Andrew F. Folkmann , Nadim Khlat , Michael R. Kay
- 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: H03G3/20
- IPC: H03G3/20 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/19 ; H03F3/21 ; H03F3/24

Abstract:
Circuitry, which includes a linear amplifier, is disclosed. The linear amplifier has a linear amplifier output and includes an input amplifier stage and an output amplifier stage. The output amplifier stage at least partially provides an envelope power supply voltage to a radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) via an envelope power supply output using a selected one of a group of linear amplifier power supply signals. The group of linear amplifier power supply signals includes at least a first bi-directional power supply signal. The input amplifier stage selects the one of the group of linear amplifier power supply signals based on the envelope power supply voltage and a setpoint of the envelope power supply voltage.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140225674A1 BI-DIRECTIONAL POWER SUPPLY SIGNAL BASED LINEAR AMPLIFIER Public/Granted day:2014-08-14
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