Standby voltage condition for fast RF amplifier bias recovery

    公开(公告)号:US10181819B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-15

    申请号:US15785096

    申请日:2017-10-16

    Abstract: Various methods and circuital arrangements for biasing one or more gates of stacked transistors of an amplifier are possible where the amplifier is configured to operate in at least an active mode and a standby mode. Circuital arrangements can reduce bias circuit standby current during operation in the standby mode while allowing a quick recovery to normal operating conditions of the amplifier. Biasing an input transistor of the stacked transistors can be obtained by using a replica stack circuit.

    Universal RF amplifier controller
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    公开(公告)号:US10033333B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-24

    申请号:US15698218

    申请日:2017-09-07

    Abstract: Various methods and circuital arrangements for controlling an RF amplifier while reducing size, cost and power consumption are presented. Included is an amplifier controller unit that provides different current amplification stages, via corresponding calibration and control blocks, that can be used for calibrating an output power of the RF amplifier based on a reference current. Order of the current amplification stages starting from the reference current allow reduction in size, cost and power consumption. A fixed or programmable offset current may be added to an output current provided by a current amplification stage.

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