Power amplifier circuit and operating method thereof

    公开(公告)号:US09966920B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-05-08

    申请号:US15413544

    申请日:2017-01-24

    发明人: Chun-Hsiung Chang

    摘要: A power amplifier circuit includes a power supply module and serially connected multi-stages of amplifier circuit. The multi-stages of amplifier circuit, coupled to the power supply module for amplifying an radio frequency (RF) input signal as an RF output signal, which include a driver stage of circuit and a gain stage of circuit. The driver stage of circuit receives and amplifies the RF input signal. The driver stage of circuit is powered by a first supply voltage received from the power supply module. The gain stage of circuit amplifies the signal received from previous stage of amplifier circuit and outputs the RF output signal. The gain stage of circuit is powered by a second supply voltage received from the power supply module. When the power amplifier circuit is operated in a back-off region, the first supply voltage is lower than the second supply voltage.

    DIGITALLY-CONTROLLED TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER (TIA) CIRCUIT AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20170288618A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-10-05

    申请号:US15087711

    申请日:2016-03-31

    IPC分类号: H03F3/08 H03G3/00 H03F1/34

    摘要: A digitally-controlled transimpedance amplifier (TIA) circuit is provided in which a plurality of feedback loops are digitally controlled, including, but not limited to, the DC offset cancellation loop, the variable gain control loop, and the TIA feedback impedance adjustment loop. The digitally-controlled TIA circuit includes digital loop-control circuitry that consumes less area on the TIA IC chip than the analog circuitry traditionally used to perform the feedback loop control in the analog domain. In addition, because digital logic continues to shrink as IC processes continue to evolve, the size of the IC chip packages will further decrease over time, leading to a smaller footprint in systems in which they are employed. The digital loop control circuitry is also capable of independently varying the gains of multiple gain stages of the variable gain control circuit to provide better control over the gain stages and better overall performance of the TIA circuit.

    Doherty amplifiers with minimum phase output networks

    公开(公告)号:US09667199B1

    公开(公告)日:2017-05-30

    申请号:US15178545

    申请日:2016-06-09

    发明人: Roy McLaren

    IPC分类号: H03F3/195 H03F1/02

    摘要: A Doherty amplifier includes an output combining network that has a first combining network input coupled to a main amplifier path, a lowest-order combining network input coupled to a lowest-order peaking amplifier path, and N−2 additional combining network inputs coupled to other peaking amplifier paths. A final summing node is coupled to the combining network output, and is directly coupled to the first combining network input. N−2 intermediate summing nodes are coupled to the N−2 additional combining network inputs. An offset line is coupled between the lowest-order combining network input and a lowest-order summing node. A longest phase delay imparted by the output combining network on a peaking RF signal between the lowest-order combining network input and the final summing node is greater than all other phase delays imparted on any other RF signal provided to the first combining network input and the N−2 additional combining network inputs.