Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Envelope power supply calibration of a multi-mode radio frequency power amplifier
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Application No.: US14010643Application Date: 2013-08-27
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Publication No.: US09197182B2Publication Date: 2015-11-24
- Inventor: Brian Baxter , Jason Millard , Roman Zbigniew Arkiszewski , Steven Selby
- 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: H04B1/66
- IPC: H04B1/66 ; H04B1/04 ; H01Q11/12 ; H04B17/00 ; H03G99/00 ; H03G3/30 ; H03G3/20 ; H04B1/62

Abstract:
The present disclosure relates to envelope power supply calibration of a multi-mode RF power amplifier (PA) to ensure adequate headroom when operating using one of multiple communications modes. The communications modes may include multiple modulation modes, a half-duplex mode, a full-duplex mode, or any combination thereof. As such, each communications mode may have specific peak-to-average power and linearity requirements for the multi-mode RF PA. As a result, each communications mode may have corresponding envelope power supply headroom requirements. The calibration may include determining a saturation operating constraint based on calibration data obtained during saturated operation of the multi-mode RF PA. During operation of the multi-mode RF PA, the envelope power supply may be restricted to provide a minimum allowable magnitude based on an RF signal level of the multi-mode RF PA, the communications mode, and the saturation operating constraint to provide adequate headroom.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130342270A1 ENVELOPE POWER SUPPLY CALIBRATION OF A MULTI-MODE RADIO FREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER Public/Granted day:2013-12-26
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