摘要:
A power circuit used for an amplifier, which includes an amplifier provided with a linear amplifier serving as a voltage source, a DC/DC converter serving as a current source, a hysteresis comparator controlling the DC/DC converter, and a current detector detecting output current from the linear amplifier to output the detected output current to the hysteresis comparator; and a switching restricting means for restricting a switching interval in the DC/DC converter such that the switching interval is not equal to or less than a constant time or is not shorter than the constant time.
摘要:
A power circuit used for an amplifier, which includes an amplifier provided with a linear amplifier serving as a voltage source, a DC/DC converter serving as a current source, a hysteresis comparator controlling the DC/DC converter, and a current detector detecting output current from the linear amplifier to output the detected output current to the hysteresis comparator; and a switching restricting device for restricting a switching interval in the DC/DC converter such that the switching interval is not equal to or less than a constant time or is not shorter than the constant time.
摘要:
An amplifier capable of lowering an electrical current flowing in a peak amplifier before a carrier amplifier becomes saturated to thereby improve the efficiency of an entirety of the amplifier is provided. The amplifier includes a carrier amplifier circuit having an amplifying element operable in class-AB or class-B, and a plurality of peak amplifier circuits which have amplifying elements operating in class-B or class-C and which are arranged to start an operation in stages in response to an input level. An output of the carrier amplifier circuit and outputs of the peak amplifier circuits are combined together for signal output. One of the peak amplifier circuits which is rendered operative at the lowest input level is smaller in saturation output than the carrier amplifier circuit.
摘要:
An amplifying apparatus includes a splitting unit for splitting an input signal into a first split signal and a second split signal; phase-shifting unit for phase-shifting the first split signal and the second split signal, respectively; a first amplifying unit for amplifying a first phase-shifted signal and outputting the signal as a first output signal; a second amplifying unit for amplifying, in a substantially identical manner to the first amplifying unit, a second phase-shifted signal and outputting the signal as a second output signal; and a matching unit for matching the first output signal and the second output signal to a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit, respectively. The first transmission unit is for transmitting the first output signal from the matching unit to a load resistor, and the second transmission unit is for transmitting the second output signal from the matching unit to the load resistor.
摘要:
An amplifying apparatus includes a splitting unit for splitting an input signal into a first split signal and a second split signal; phase-shifting unit for phase-shifting the first split signal and the second split signal, respectively; a first amplifying unit for amplifying a first phase-shifted signal and outputting the signal as a first output signal; a second amplifying unit for amplifying, in a substantially identical manner to the first amplifying unit, a second phase-shifted signal and outputting the signal as a second output signal; and a matching unit for matching the first output signal and the second output signal to a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit, respectively. The first transmission unit is for transmitting the first output signal from the matching unit to a load resistor, and the second transmission unit is for transmitting the second output signal from the matching unit to the load resistor.
摘要:
A first control unit controls a bias applied to the peak amplifier to (a) make a peak amplifier operate as class C when the level of the input signal is lower than a first threshold value, to (b) make the peak amplifier operate as class AB with a second conduction angle substantially equal to a first conduction angle, when the level of the input signal is higher than a second threshold value higher than the first threshold value, and to (c) make the peak amplifier operate as class AB with a third conduction angle smaller than the first conduction angle, when the level of the input signal is not less than the first threshold value and not more than the second threshold value.
摘要:
A conventional power amplifying device has a problem that when a signal band is widened, sampling frequency for distortion detection is increased and an FFT calculation amount of a distortion compensation unit is increased, which increase a circuit size and power consumption. The present invention provides a non-linear distortion detection method and a distortion compensation amplifying device capable of suppressing increase of the circuit size and the power consumption even if the signal band is widened. A signal obtained by feeding back an output of a power amplifier is sampled by an A/D converter. An equalizer of a distortion detection unit uses an input signal d(n) of a predistorter as a reference symbol to detect an equalization error e(n) of the orthogonal demodulation signal u(n). An absolute value averaging unit outputs an absolute value of the equalization error e(n) which has been temporally averaged to E(n) as a distortion value to a control unit. According to the distortion value, the control unit adaptively controls the predistorter to perform distortion compensation.
摘要:
The present invention provides a non-linear distortion detection method and a distortion compensation amplifying device capable of suppressing increase of the circuit size and the power consumption even if the signal band is widened. A signal obtained by feeding back an output of a power amplifier is sampled by an A/D converter. An equalizer of a distortion detection unit uses an input signal d(n) of a predistorter as a reference symbol to detect an equalization error e(n) of the orthogonal demodulation signal u(n). An absolute value averaging unit outputs an absolute value of the equalization error e(n) which has been temporally averaged to E(n) as a distortion value to a control unit. According to the distortion value, the control unit adaptively controls the predistorter to perform distortion compensation.
摘要:
A DCDC converter includes a signal splitting unit that splits an input signal into N signal components; N DCDC converter elements that process individually the N split signals; and an adder that adds outputs from the plural DCDC converter elements to generate output signals. Each of the DCDC converter elements has an operation band narrower than an applicable frequency band of the input signal, and selects a design parameter that allows a conversion efficiency of the DCDC converter elements to be optimized for any band of the applicable frequency bands. For example, the parameter of a PMOS transistor and a NMOS transistor, which configure an inverter is designed to optimize the efficiency at any of frequency bands. The frequency band of the input signal is split, and each of the split outputs is input to a DCDC converter element that has a corresponding frequency and high efficiency characteristic.
摘要:
A DCDC converter includes a signal splitting unit that splits an input signal into N signal components; N DCDC converter elements that process individually the N split signals; and an adder that adds outputs from the plural DCDC converter elements to generate output signals. Each of the DCDC converter elements has an operation band narrower than an applicable frequency band of the input signal, and selects a design parameter that allows a conversion efficiency of the DCDC converter elements to be optimized for any band of the applicable frequency bands. For example, the parameter of a PMOS transistor and a NMOS transistor, which configure an inverter is designed to optimize the efficiency at any of frequency bands. The frequency band of the input signal is split, and each of the split outputs is input to a DCDC converter element that has a corresponding frequency and high efficiency characteristic.