摘要:
An apparatus for detecting difference in operating characteristics of a main circuit by using a replica circuit is presented. In one exemplary case, a sensed difference in operating characteristics of the two circuits is used to drive a tuning control loop to minimize the sensed difference. In another exemplary case, several replica circuits of the main circuit are used, where each is isolated from one or more operating variables that affect the operating characteristic of the main circuit. Each replica circuit can be used for sensing a different operating characteristic, or, two replica circuits can be combined to sense a same operating characteristic.
摘要:
Bias circuits and methods for silicon-based amplifier architectures that are tolerant of supply and bias voltage variations, bias current variations, and transistor stack height, and compensate for poor output resistance characteristics. Embodiments include power amplifiers and low-noise amplifiers that utilize a cascode reference circuit to bias the final stages of a cascode amplifier under the control of a closed loop bias control circuit. The closed loop bias control circuit ensures that the current in the cascode reference circuit is approximately equal to a selected multiple of a known current value by adjusting the gate bias voltage to the final stage of the cascode amplifier. The final current through the cascode amplifier is a multiple of the current in the cascode reference circuit, based on a device scaling factor representing the relative sizes of the transistor devices in the cascode amplifier and in the cascode reference circuit.
摘要:
A speed-up circuit connectible to a capacitive load to reduce charging time thereof from a pulsed current source connected there includes a first circuit node connectible to the capacitive load. An operational amplifier circuit is connected to the first circuit node and configured as a low resistance voltage source. Added current from the operational amplifier flows to the capacitive load for a predetermined duration between the pulsed current source transitioning between a deactivated state and an activated state, and in response to an activation of the pulsed current source. The added current is combined with the current from the pulsed current source to reduce switching time of the load.
摘要:
A radio frequency (RF) receiver that includes a low noise amplifier (LNA), a tunable resonant circuit, and a processor for performing calibration of the RF receiver. The processor is configured to sweep the tunable resonant circuit through a dynamicrange of resonant frequency settings while estimating noise signal output power at the LNA at each setting. The processor is also configured to set the tunable resonant circuit to the setting that produces the greatest noise signal power output at the LNA.
摘要:
Power amplifiers for amplifying a radio frequency signal are provided. The power amplifier may include an envelope tracking power supply, a carrier amplifier coupled with the power supply and configured to amplify the radio frequency signal, an input matching network configured to split the amplified radio frequency signal from the carrier amplifier such that one part of the amplified radio frequency signal passes along a peak amplifier path and another part of the amplified radio frequency signal passes along an impedance transformer path, a peak amplifier coupled with the power supply and configured to amplify the one part of the amplified radio frequency signal from the input matching network, an impedance transformer configured to perform impedance transformation on the other part of the amplified radio frequency signal from the input matching network, an output matching network configured to combine the output of the peak amplifier and the impedance transformer.
摘要:
An apparatus for reducing a harmonic response in an electronic circuit is provided. The apparatus includes an RF input configured to provide a first signal operating at a radio frequency. The apparatus includes a local oscillator configured to produce a second signal operating at a local oscillator (LO) frequency. The apparatus includes a switching mixer configured to mix the first and second signals. The apparatus includes a notch filter comprising an inductor and a capacitor connected in parallel. The notch filter is directly coupled to an input of the switching mixer in series. The notch filter is tuned such that its resonant frequency is a harmonic of the LO frequency signal. In an aspect, the apparatus also includes a transformer configured to provide the first signal. In an aspect the apparatus also includes a second notch filter comprising a second inductor and a second capacitor connected in parallel.
摘要:
A device includes at least one first amplifier circuit configurable to receive and amplify an input radio frequency (RF) signal having a first carrier at a first input signal level and provide a first amplified RF signal, and at least one second amplifier circuit configurable to receive and amplify the input RF signal having a second carrier at a second input signal level and provide a second amplified RF signal, the at least one first amplifier circuit having a first input impedance, the at least one second amplifier circuit having a second input impedance.
摘要:
An amplifier (300) for converting a single-ended input signal to a differential output signal. The amplifier (300) comprises a first transistor (301), a second transistor (302), a third transistor (303) and a fourth transistor (304). The first transistor (301), configured in common-source or common-emitter mode, receives the single-ended input signal and generate a first part of the differential output signal. The second transistor (302), also configured in common-source or common-emitter mode, generates a second part of the differential output signal. The third and fourth transistor (303,304) are capacitively cross-coupled. The amplifier (300) further comprises inductive degeneration such that a source or emitter of the first transistor (301 ) is connected to a first inductor (321) and a source or emitter of the second transistor (302) is connected to a second inductor (322).
摘要:
Multi-port hybrid-based cancellation networks may be used to enable simultaneous transmit and receive in one or more co-existent communication systems. A multi-port hybrid-based cancellation network may include a first and second quadrature hybrid, a first and second two-port network, and other circuitry components. The second quadrature hybrid may be distinct from the first quadrature hybrid. The first two-port network may include a first filter or a first amplifier connected between the first and the second quadrature hybrids. The second two-port network may include a second filter or a second amplifier that is distinct from but essentially the same as the first filter or the first amplifier connected between the first and the second quadrature hybrids.
摘要:
In one embodiment, a Doherty amplifier having a main amplifier branch and one or more peak amplifier branches, where at least one peak amplifier branch has RF conditioning applied to its peak branch input signal such that the peak amplifier branch is active only when the peak branch input signal is greater than a specified threshold level. In one implementation, a reverse-biased diode is configured between the peak branch input signal and a peak amplifier device, where the bias signal applied to the diode establishes the specified threshold level. Depending on the implementation, the bias signal may be static or dynamic, and multiple peak amplifier branches may have diodes with independently or dependently generated bias signals applied.