Abstract:
A power amplifier capable of compensating for distortion by pre-distortion and achieving a large distortion suppressing effect even if IM3L components and IM3U components occurring at the power amplifier have a large level difference. A power amplifying circuit 117 amplifies an original signal. An envelope detector 119 generates an envelope signal having components identical to envelope components included in the original signal. Based on the original signal a distortion signal generating circuit 112 generates a distortion signal for canceling distortion components occurring while the original signal is amplified by the power amplifying circuit 117. In a power combiner 116, the envelope signal is injected to the original signal, thereby eliminating the asymmetric characteristic of the distortion components. In the power amplifying circuit 117, the distortion signal is injected to the original signal, thereby suppressing the distortion components.
Abstract:
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate in which a semiconductor element is formed; a multilayer structured wiring layer that is provided on the semiconductor substrate, the wiring layer forming a structure connected with the semiconductor element; a spiral inductor that is formed in at least one layer of the wiring layer; and a connection terminal formed in an uppermost layer of the wiring layer for establishing connection from the wiring layer to an outside such as a printed board. A shielding wiring pattern is disposed between the spiral inductor and the connection terminal, the shielding wiring pattern functioning as an electromagnetic shield for the uppermost layer of the wiring layer. The shielding wiring pattern absorbs a change in electrical field caused by a potential change in the connection terminal, providing a shielding structure which suppresses the superposing of noise and an unnecessary signal onto the spiral inductor from the connection terminal.
Abstract:
A multicarrier transmitting method that includes inputting n input signals, generating carriers corresponding to the n input signals, modulating the carriers into n modulated signals and generating at least one additional signal having a frequency outside band of the n modulated signals. The method also includes adjusting a level and a phase of the generated additional signal, outputting a multiplexed signal by adding up the n modulated signals and the adjusted additional signal, amplifying the multiplexed signal, and then removing the additional signal. The level and the phase of the additional signal are adjusted such that, after predicting a change of a composite vector of the n modulated signals based on an amplitude and a phase of the n carriers, a composite vector obtained after an adding operation can be lower than that before the adding operation when an absolute value of a prediction result exceeds a predetermined level.
Abstract:
A feedforward amplifier includes a main amplifier for amplifying an input signal, a control circuit for generating a predetermined pilot signal based on the output of a local oscillator and a frequency divider included in the control circuit, and a coupler for combining the input signal or the amplified signal with the pilot signal to generate a combined signal. A first coupler and a second coupler are provided for extracting any distortion component from the combined signal. A vector adjuster, an error amplifier, and a third coupler are provided for removing the extracted distortion component from the combined signal to generate an output signal. An orthogonal detector is provided for using any one of the pilot signal, or the output of the local oscillator, the frequency divider, and the combination of the vector adjuster, error amplifier, and the third coupler to make an adjustment for removing the distortion component.
Abstract:
A power amplifier that reduces intermodulation distortion generated by the amplifier while reducing the number of parts is provided. A power amplifier comprises a first balun, to which a combined signal combining two signals of different frequencies is inputted, and which outputs, based on the combined signal, the first and the second signal whose phase are opposite; a first amplifier that outputs the first amplified signal containing the differential frequency component comprising the difference of the frequencies of two signals from the first signal; a second amplifier that outputs the second amplified signal containing the component comprising the difference of the frequencies of two signals from the second signal; and a second balun that outputs the combined signal of the first and the second amplified signals. The component contained in the first and the second amplified signal are inputted via the second and the first amplifier, respectively, to reduce the component.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a high frequency switch used in a communication apparatus or the like, such as a portable terminal. The switch includes a first signal terminal, a first diode, the cathode of which is directly or indirectly connected to the first signal terminal, a bias controlling device having an end which is connected to the anode of the first diode, a second signal terminal directly or indirectly connected to the anode of the first diode, an impedance converting device having an end which is directly or indirectly connected to the first signal terminal, a serial circuit having a high frequency voltage dividing device and a second diode, the serial circuit being connected to the other end of the impedance converting device, and a third signal terminal directly or indirectly connected to the other end of the impedance converting device.
Abstract:
A high-frequency oscillating circuit that is not degraded by external electromagnetic interference. The high-frequency oscillating circuit includes first and second oscillating transistors wherein the bases are connected together directly or via a capacitor having a sufficiently low impedance at an oscillating frequency, and wherein a differential signal output is obtained between the emitters of the first and second oscillating transistors. Also provided is a resonating circuit formed in a module and a separate negative-resistance-generating circuit formed on an integrated circuit for achieving an oscillator that has a high Q factor and a high C/N ratio.
Abstract:
A power amplifier MMIC has a first stage amplifier circuit having a transistor and matching circuits provided on input and output sides of the transistor; a plurality of final stage transistors connected in parallel; a first line connected between adjacent gates of the plurality of final stage amplifiers; a second line, connected between adjacent drains of the plurality of final stage amplifiers, for correcting an input signal phase shift caused by the presence of the first line; and an output matching circuit connected to one of connection points between the second line and the drains, and wherein an output of the first stage amplifier circuit is coupled to one gate of a final stage transistor whose drain is not connected to the output matching circuit, and the first stage amplifier circuit and the plurality of final stage transistors are arranged longitudinally alongside each other.
Abstract:
A transmitter circuit includes a first synthesizer section, and a second synthesizer section which consumes less current than the first synthesizer section. The transmitter circuit performs switching such that the first synthesizer section is operated and the second synthesizer section is powered off in polar modulation, and the second synthesizer section is operated and the first synthesizer section is powered off in quadrature modulation, thereby reducing consumed power. While the first synthesizer section is operating, calibration for an oscillation frequency is performed, and when the operation is stopped, a calibration value is stored. When an operation of the first synthesizer section is restarted, the stored calibration value is corrected by using temperature change, thereby enhancing calibration accuracy and preventing degradation in quality of a transmission signal.
Abstract:
A transmission circuit according to the present invention includes: an amplitude signal driving section (220) that generates a control voltage based on an amplitude signal in a high-output mode, and generates a control voltage at a predetermined level and a bias current based on the amplitude signal in a low-output mode; a variable gain adjustment section (114) that adjusts a power level of the phase signal; and a power amplifier (130) which amplitude-modulates the phase signal having the adjusted power level on the basis of the control voltage, in the high-output mode, and to a power supply terminal of which the control voltage is supplied and which amplitude-modulates the phase signal having the adjusted power level on the basis of the bias current, in the low-output mode. In a specific region in a low-output region and close to a high-output region, the variable gain adjustment section (114) adjusts the power level of the phase signal to a predetermined upper-limit level, and the amplitude signal driving section (220) adjusts a gain of the power amplifier (130) to obtain a desired output power level.