Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Modifiable signal adjustment devices for power amplifiers and corresponding methods and apparatus
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Application No.: US14500992Application Date: 2014-09-29
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Publication No.: US09774299B2Publication Date: 2017-09-26
- Inventor: Joseph Staudinger , Abdulrhman M. S. Ahmed , Paul R. Hart , Monte G. Miller , Nicholas J. Spence
- Applicant: FREESCALE SEMICONDUCTOR, INC.
- Applicant Address: US TX Austin
- Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
- Current Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Austin
- Agent Sherry W. Schumm
- Main IPC: H03F1/26
- IPC: H03F1/26 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/19 ; H03F1/32 ; H03F3/24

Abstract:
An embodiment of an amplifier system includes a modifiable signal adjustment device with an RF signal adjustment circuit coupled between first and second nodes. The RF signal adjustment circuit includes an adjustable phase shifter and an adjustable attenuator coupled in series with each other. The device also includes a memory and a controller circuit. The controller circuit retrieves a phase shift value and an attenuation value from the memory. The controller circuit then controls the adjustable phase shifter to apply a phase shift corresponding to the phase shift value to an input RF signal received at the first node, and controls the adjustable attenuator to apply an attenuation corresponding to the attenuation value to the input RF signal. Applying the phase shift and the attenuation results in an output RF signal at the second node.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160094187A1 MODIFIABLE SIGNAL ADJUSTMENT DEVICES FOR POWER AMPLIFIERS AND CORRESPONDING METHODS & APPARATUS Public/Granted day:2016-03-31
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