Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Wideband high linearity LNA with intra-band carrier aggregation support
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Application No.: US15446847Application Date: 2017-03-01
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Publication No.: US09800273B1Publication Date: 2017-10-24
- Inventor: Sherif Abdelhalem , Bassel Hanafi , Hasnain Lakdawala
- Applicant: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Applicant Address: US CA San Diego
- Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
- Current Assignee Address: US CA San Diego
- Agency: Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves
- Main IPC: H04B1/16
- IPC: H04B1/16 ; H03F3/19 ; H04B1/04 ; H03F3/195 ; H03F3/24

Abstract:
A device and method for amplifying signals is provided. The device can have an input to receive an input signal having a first desired signal on a first carrier, a second desired signal on a second carrier, and one or more interfering signals. The device can have a first carrier aggregation (CA) chain for use with the first desired signal and a second CA chain for use with the second desired signal. The first and second CA chains can be coupled to the input. The first and second CA chains can have a plurality of transconductance stages. Each of the transconductance stages can be configured as a high impedance stage or a low impedance stage. The transconductance stages can be selectively activated to incrementally adjust the transconductance, and therefore the input impedance, of each of the CA chains.
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