Bias Circuit for Stacked Power Amplifiers with a Variable Power Supply

    公开(公告)号:US20240364274A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-31

    申请号:US18307494

    申请日:2023-04-26

    发明人: Shota Ishihara Rui Ma

    IPC分类号: H03F1/30 H03F1/56 H03F3/21

    摘要: Stacked amplifier architectures that have bias circuits that are tolerant of supply voltage variations, which provide good reliability, are fast to follow VCC changes, and exhibit small variations in gain as VCC varies. One embodiment encompasses a bias circuit for an amplifier stack, including a source follower circuit configured to output a bias voltage to a transistor within the amplifier stack and configured to be coupled to a variable voltage, and a controller coupled to the source follower circuit, configured to be coupled to a constant voltage, and configured to apply a constant voltage to the source follower circuit. The source follower circuit generates a reference voltage and (1) outputs a constant bias voltage when the variable voltage is above the reference voltage, and (2) outputs a bias voltage proportional to the variable voltage when the variable voltage is below the reference voltage.

    Noise detecting circuit and associated system and method

    公开(公告)号:US12132456B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US18357989

    申请日:2023-07-24

    IPC分类号: H03F3/21 H03F3/193 H03F3/45

    摘要: A noise detecting circuit including an amplifier circuit amplifying an input signal indicating a noise level of a circuit to be detected and output an amplified signal; a filtering circuit receiving and filtering the amplified signal and output a filtered signal; and a comparing circuit receiving and compare the filtered signal to a reference voltage and output an output signal; wherein the filtering circuit includes: an output terminal; and a first filter selectively coupled to the output terminal, including: a sub-output terminal; a switch selectively coupling the sub-output terminal to the output terminal; a resistor, wherein a terminal of the resistor is coupled to the amplifier circuit and another terminal of the resistor is coupled to the sub-output terminal; and a capacitor, wherein a terminal of the capacitor is coupled to the sub-output terminal and another terminal of the capacitor is coupled to a reference voltage source.

    DUAL-MODE POWER AMPLIFIER AND METHOD
    3.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240356498A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-24

    申请号:US18685515

    申请日:2022-10-25

    IPC分类号: H03F1/56 H03F3/21 H03F3/213

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a dual-mode power amplifier, there is disclosed a dual-mode power amplifier that can selectively operate in a low-power mode for low output and a high-power mode for high output, the dual-mode power amplifier including a high-power amplifier comprising one or more transistors whose operations are controlled by a first bias; a first transformer connected in series to an output stage of the high-power amplifier; a low-power amplifier comprising one or more transistors whose operations are controlled by a second bias; and a second transformer connected in series to an output stage of the low-power amplifier, wherein the dual-mode power amplifier operates in a high-power mode when the first bias is activated and the second bias is deactivated, and operates in a low-power mode when the first bias is deactivated and the second bias is activated.

    AMPLIFIER AND SIGNAL DISTRIBUTION METHOD
    4.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240348210A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-17

    申请号:US18752957

    申请日:2024-06-25

    IPC分类号: H03F1/02 H03F3/21

    CPC分类号: H03F1/0288 H03F3/211

    摘要: An amplifier includes a signal acquiring unit that acquires an input signal, which is a digital signal, a signal generation unit that generates an in-phase signal, an orthogonal signal, and an envelope signal by using the input signal, and a signal distribution unit that generates a first signal and a second signal by using the in-phase signal, the orthogonal signal, and the envelope signal, a differential value of a function representing either or both an amplitude ratio and a phase difference is continuous during transition of the envelope signal from a minimum value to a maximum value.

    AMPLIFIERS
    5.
    发明公开
    AMPLIFIERS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240313732A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-19

    申请号:US18601676

    申请日:2024-03-11

    IPC分类号: H03G3/30 H03F3/21

    摘要: An amplifier circuit portion is proved. The amplifier circuit is arranged to amplify an input signal with a gain based on a gain control signal. The amplifier circuit portion comprises a plurality of amplifier cells having a common input for receiving the input signal and a common output for providing an amplified version of the input signal. At least one of the amplifier cells is operable in: a controllable gain mode in which the amplifier cell provides an amplification gain to the input signal based on the gain control signal; and a fixed gain mode in which the amplifier cell provides a fixed, non-zero amplification gain to the input signal.

    Power amplifier
    8.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12040756B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-16

    申请号:US17312613

    申请日:2019-04-04

    IPC分类号: H03F3/68 H03F3/21 H03F3/60

    摘要: A power amplifier includes: plural amplifiers; a tournament-tree-shaped circuit connected with the plural amplifiers and including plural transmission lines arranged in a tournament-tree shape; and plural difference frequency short circuits shunt-connected with plural nodes of the tournament-tree-shaped circuit, wherein each of the plural difference frequency short circuits includes an inductor and a capacitor connected in series, resonant frequencies of the plural difference frequency short circuits become lower as the plural difference frequency short circuits are more separated from the plural amplifiers, and the difference frequency short circuits having equivalent resonant frequencies are connected with plural nodes in the same stage among the plural nodes.