1269results about "High frequency amplifiers" patented technology

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a radio frequency power amplifier and a radio frequency chip, the radio frequency power amplifier comprises an input matching circuit, a first-stage amplifier, a first inter-stage matching circuit, a second-stage amplifier, a second inter-stage matching circuit, a third-stage amplifier and an output matching circuit which are electrically connected in sequence; the radio frequency power amplifier further comprises a control module, a direct current power supply module, a first bias circuit, a second bias circuit and a third bias circuit. The first biasing circuit comprises a power detection network and a switch control circuit; the first input end of the power detection network serves as the first input end of the first bias circuit, the second input end of the power detection network serves as the second input end of the first bias circuit, and the power detection network is used for receiving a radio frequency signal, converting the radio frequency signal into a control voltage in a detection mode and outputting the control voltage to the input end of the switch control circuit. The control switch controls connection or disconnection of the circuit. According to the invention, the robustness of power can be improved.

The invention discloses a digital pre-distortion method, system and device and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of aerospace communication. The method comprises the following steps: acquiring a first input signal and a first actual output signal of the power amplifier, and acquiring a thermal state characteristic; constructing a three-dimensional dynamic baseline; superposing the detection sequence into the first input signal to obtain a second input signal, obtaining a corresponding second actual output signal, and predicting an ideal output signal of the second input signal; extracting a harmonic component generated after the detection sequence passes through a power amplifier, and determining a distortion early warning moment; recording a third input signal after the distortion early warning moment; constructing a virtual test signal according to the third input signal, and predicting to obtain a reference output signal; and comparing the difference between the distortion output signal and the reference output to obtain a distortion feature vector, constructing a dynamic increment compensation function, and correcting the signal processing flow of the power amplifier based on the dynamic increment compensation function. And the accuracy of digital pre-distortion is improved.

The utility model relates to a radio frequency power amplification circuit with a harmonic suppression function and a radio frequency chip. The radio frequency power amplification circuit comprises an input matching unit, a first-stage power amplification unit, a first-stage bias unit, a first-stage power supply unit, an inter-stage matching unit, a second-stage power amplification unit, a second-stage bias unit, a second-stage power supply unit and an output matching unit. According to the utility model, the LC type trap circuits are designed and used in the power supply unit and the inter-stage matching unit, so that secondary, tertiary and high-order harmonic suppression is realized in the radio frequency power amplification circuit; meanwhile, based on LC circuit structures in the power supply unit and the inter-stage matching unit, the inter-stage matching bandwidth is widened, and the linearity of the multi-stage power amplification unit is improved.

Method and device(s) for supporting performance of machine learning based CFR and DPD on multiple digital input signals relating to different frequency bands, respectively, in order to signal condition said signals before power amplification and subsequent transmission in said frequency bands by a wireless communication network. The device(s) obtain said multiple digital input signals as complex valued signals. The device(s) perform feature construction that takes said multiple digital input signals as input and provides constructed feature signals according to predefined constructed feature types as output. Said predefined constructed feature types relate to at least the following per complex valued sample of the obtained complex valued multiple digital input signals the real part of the sample, the imaginary part of the sample and at least one of the absolute value of the sample and the phase of the sample.

An adaptable, generalized digital predistortion system that can increase the accuracy of the distortion applied to a power amplifier input signal is disclosed. Further, the digital predistortion system can be implemented using a reduced circuit area by reducing a number of coefficients used by the models applied to generate the distortion compensation signal. Further, the system can implement an improved digital predistortion adaptation engine that can improve one or more of the following metrics of a complete radio frequency (RF) analog front-end radio signal chain: error vector magnitude (EVM), adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR), spectrum emission mask (SEM), and power consumption of the circuits and systems. An example of circuits and systems is a radio frequency power amplifier (PA).

The invention relates to a digital pre-distortion method and system based on a hierarchical iterative neural network, and belongs to the field of digital pre-distortion of power amplifiers. According to the method, the pre-distortion process is decoupled into two stages of off-line generalization training and on-line specialization optimization. In the offline stage, a mixed data set containing multiple modulation modes and bandwidths is adopted to train an offline neural network, and a basic model with high generalization ability is constructed; in the online stage, aiming at a signal with a specific modulation mode and bandwidth, a single configuration data set is utilized to train an online neural network, and the accurate compensation capability of the model on a real-time input signal is enhanced. In practical application, a baseband signal is firstly subjected to targeted preprocessing through the online neural network, then is subjected to deep optimization through the offline neural network, and finally is input into the power amplifier PA. According to the method, through a generalization-specialization double-layer structure, the dynamic response capability and compensation precision of a digital pre-distortion system to a complex signal environment are remarkably improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio frequency generator circuits, and provides a phase-locking frequency-stabilizing multi-core control radio frequency system, which processes I / Q signals and constructs a multi-core task allocation and cooperation mechanism through a digital baseband processing module, and performs pre-distortion processing and system scheduling. The double-closed-loop control module is used for stabilizing fundamental frequency, correcting temperature drift and compensating and adjusting frequency swing amplitude; the hybrid power amplification module is used for performing multi-stage hybrid power amplification signal processing and temperature monitoring through a driving stage and output stage combined topology; and the feedback sampling network module collects output signals in real time through a directional coupler and feeds back, adjusts and precisely controls the frequency stability according to the output signals.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to acoustic wave filters with bulk acoustic wave resonators. An acoustic wave filter can include a first bulk acoustic wave resonator configured to excite an overtone mode as a main mode and a second bulk acoustic wave resonator having a fundamental mode as a main mode.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio-frequency signal processing, and discloses a 5G radio-frequency signal amplification method and system, and the method comprises the steps: decomposing an obtained radio-frequency signal into a high-frequency sub-band and a low-frequency sub-band through a multilayer wavelet packet, judging whether the radio-frequency signal is sparse in a wavelet packet domain, and carrying out the sparse reconstruction of an LI norm minimization problem if the radio-frequency signal is sparse; obtaining feature data of each sub-band, extracting a nonlinear transfer function of each sub-band through a CNN-GRU network, and carrying out transfer learning pre-training and dynamic adaptation updating; on the basis of dynamic adaptation update ending, layered memory polynomial calculation and layered model joint output construction, layered model parameter optimization is converted into a least square problem to obtain an error compensation function, and resource allocation is dynamically adjusted according to the peak-to-average power ratio of an input signal; and based on power amplifier state data, holographic sensing is performed on nonlinear parameters of the device through a fusion model, and dynamic changes of the device are compensated through multi-stage calibration and calibration delay is controlled.

Methods and devices to improve nonlinearity performance of low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are disclosed. The described methods and devices reduce the capacitive loading of the LNA amplifying devices on the bypass path of the LNAs when operating in the bypass mode. This is performed by decoupling the active devices from ground to put the amplifying devices in a floating state, thus minimizing the impact of the gate-source capacitances of the amplifying devices on the overall linear performance of the LNA operating in the bypass mode.

Disclosed is a technology related to a low noise amplifier applied between an RF receiver and an RF switch. A phase difference matching circuit having the same phase difference as a positive gain amplifier is added to an output terminal of an attenuator of a low noise amplifier having a variable gain switching structure. In addition, a variable impedance circuit connected to an output terminal of the positive gain amplifier and an output terminal of a phase difference matching unit to finely adjust the phase difference of each output terminal may be further included.

A power amplifier device includes a transistor die with an elongated bondpad coupled to a terminal of an integrated transistor. The device also includes a substrate formed from a stack of alternating dielectric and patterned conductive layers. An elongated die contact is exposed at a first substrate surface and is attached to the elongated bondpad to provide a uniform connection between the die contact and the elongated bondpad. A vertical interconnect structure is connected to the die contact and extends towards the second substrate surface. A circuit includes passive component(s) coupled to the second substrate surface and to the vertical interconnect structure. An encapsulation material layer covers the passive component(s) and the second substrate surface. A plurality of device interconnects are coupled to the substrate, electrically coupled to the power transistor die, and exposed at a contact surface of the power amplifier device.

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a power amplifier, a power amplification module and a multi-mode multi-frequency power amplifier, the power amplifier comprises a first-stage low-frequency power amplifier, a second-stage low-frequency power amplifier, a harmonic suppression circuit, a first output matching circuit, a first filter circuit and a second filter circuit; the first-stage low-frequency power amplifier and the second-stage low-frequency power amplifier are used for amplifying low-frequency-band signals, the harmonic suppression circuit is used for suppressing harmonic waves output by the first-stage low-frequency power amplifier and the second-stage low-frequency power amplifier, and the output end of the first output matching circuit is used for outputting signals; and the first output end of the first filter circuit and the output end of the second filter circuit respectively provide filtered power supply voltage for the first-stage low-frequency power amplifier and the second-stage low-frequency power amplifier. According to the invention, the harmonic leakage of the multi-mode multi-frequency power amplifier can be optimized.

Implementations of disclosed systems and methods are capable of changing the frequency or other waveform characteristics dynamically based on receiving feedback about the effect of an electromagnetic pulse radiation on a target electronic device. Various implementations can be configured to emit electromagnetic pulses at a single radio frequency or a plurality of radio frequencies. For example, the frequency of the carrier electromagnetic radiation in a single pulse can change during the pulse interval. As another example, a single electromagnetic pulse can comprise a frequency comb with two or more frequencies.

An electronic device electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first antenna, a second antenna, memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing instructions, and at least one communication processor communicatively coupled to the first antenna, the second antenna, and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one communication processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to during an operation in a mode in which data is transmitted to a cellular network via the first antenna and the second antenna, identify a number of uplink layers allocated by the cellular network to the electronic device, in case that the number of uplink layers allocated to the electronic device during a specified time satisfies a specified condition, change an operation mode related to impedance matching of at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna from a first mode for improving performance of at least one antenna to a second mode for reducing consumption of an amplifier electrically connected to the at least one antenna, and perform the impedance matching of the at least one antenna in the second mode.

According to the radio frequency power amplifier and the radio frequency chip provided by the utility model, the input end of the input matching circuit is used for receiving a radio frequency signal, the output end of the input matching circuit is connected with the input end of the power amplifier, and the first end of the filter circuit is used for connecting an external power supply voltage; the output end of the power amplifier is connected with the second end of the filter circuit, the first end of the trap circuit and the input end of the strong coupling transformer, the second end of the trap circuit is grounded, the output end of the strong coupling transformer is used for outputting radio frequency signals, the first end of the high-order trap circuit is connected with the output end of the strong coupling transformer, and the second end of the high-order trap circuit is grounded. And the second end of the high-order trap circuit is grounded. Compared with the prior art, the radio frequency power amplifier has the advantages that the radio frequency matching area is effectively reduced, the space and the cost of the radio frequency power amplifier are saved, and meanwhile, the efficiency and the performance of the radio frequency power amplifier are effectively improved through the structural design of the strong coupling transformer.

A power amplification circuit may comprise a power distributor configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal and output a first RF signal and a second RF signal, a first power amplifier configured to receive the first RF signal from the power distributor and amplify the first RF signal based on a first bias, a second power amplifier configured to receive the second RF signal from the power distributor and amplify the second RF signal based on a second bias, an impedance matching circuit configured to receive the first RF signal amplified by the first power amplifier and the second RF signal amplified by the second power amplifier, and a protection circuit configured to identify a current input to a bias terminal of the second power amplifier and, control a magnitude of the current input to the bias terminal based on the identified input current.

An electronic device may include a transmitter coupled to an antenna over a signal path that runs through a front end module. The front end module may include a power amplifier disposed on the signal path. The front end module may include first, second, and / or third signal attenuators disposed on the signal path between an input of the amplifier and the transmitter. The front end module may include a voltage sensor that measures a bias voltage of the amplifier, a temperature that measures a temperature of the amplifier, and / or an impedance sensor that measures an impedance of the antenna. The first signal attenuator may be adjusted based on the measured bias voltage, the second signal attenuator may be adjusted based on the measured temperature, and the third signal attenuator may be adjusted based on the measured impedance to mitigate changes in the amplifier as operating conditions change over time.

Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to electronic components and, more particularly, to circuitry for signal amplification for transmission. One example apparatus generally includes: a modem; a controller; a feedforward path coupled between the modem and the bias controller; and an amplifier having a main amplification path and an auxiliary amplification path, wherein the controller is configured to provide at least one bias signal for biasing the auxiliary amplification path based on information associated with a transmission signal, the information being provided by the modem to the controller via the feedforward path.

The invention discloses a Ka-band 2000W solid-state power amplifier, which relates to the field of power amplifiers, and comprises a Ka monitoring and pre-stage power amplifier, a Ka final-stage power amplifier and a Ka high-power synthesis network, the Ka monitoring and pre-stage output end is in flexible connection with the eight Ka last-stage power amplifiers, and the Ka last-stage power amplifiers are in hard connection with the Ka high-power synthesis network through waveguides. A solid-state system is adopted for design, a domestic GaN solid-state power amplifier chip is utilized for synthesis, the power amplifier adopts a low-voltage working mode, the power chip is long in service life, the linear index of the power amplifier is good, and the power amplifier is different from the defects that a vacuum tube power amplifier is large in size and weight, has breakdown risks during high-voltage working and cannot respond to emergency scenes immediately. The Ka-band high-power amplifier is a development trend of a Ka-band high-power amplifier, and has the advantages of high output power and convenience in maintenance.

Bidirectional variable gain amplifiers (VGAs) for radio frequency (RF) communication systems are provided. In certain embodiments, a bidirectional VGA includes a first amplifier having an input coupled to a transmit / receive port, a second amplifier having an output coupled to a transmit port, a third amplifier having an input coupled to a receive port, a fourth amplifier having an output coupled to the transmit / receive port and to the input of the first amplifier, and a switch circuit that connects an output of the first amplifier to an input of the second amplifier in a transmit mode, and that connects an output of the third amplifier to an input of the fourth amplifier in a receive mode.

Apparatus and methods for power amplifier signal limiting are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a front-end system includes a low noise amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency receive signal during a receive frame, a power amplifier that amplifies a radio frequency transmit signal during a transmit frame, and a signal limiter operable to limit a signal power of the power amplifier in an attenuating mode. The signal limiter includes a radio frequency detector configured to generate a detection signal based on detecting a power level of the radio frequency transmit signal, and a latch that locks the signal limiter in the attenuating mode in response to activation of the detection signal. The latch is reset by a bias signal of the power amplifier that is activated during the transmit frame and deactivated during the receive frame.

Systems and techniques are provided for power amplifier gain error compensation for a Digital Power Amplifier (DPA). In some aspects, a compensation method includes obtaining in-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) components of a baseband sample corresponding to in-phase input amplitude codes and quadrature-phase input amplitude codes. The in-phase input amplitude codes can be distorted based on first gain pre-compensation information corresponding to an in-phase signal branch of the DPA, to generate pre-distorted output amplitude codes of the I component. The quadrature-phase input amplitude codes can be distorted based on second gain pre-compensation information corresponding to a quadrature-phase signal branch of the DPA, to generate pre-distorted output amplitude codes of the Q component. The DPA can be driven using the pre-distorted output amplitude codes of the I and Q components to generate a Radio Frequency (RF) output.

An impedance matching network for a radio frequency (RF) transmission system can include first port for coupling to a first transistor differential pair. The network can further include a second port for coupling to a second transistor differential pair. The network can further include a matching network connected to the first port and the second port, the matching network comprised of a pair of coupled lines. Other aspects are described.

The embodiment of the invention provides a radio frequency power amplifier and a radio frequency front-end module. The radio frequency power amplifier comprises a first radio frequency amplification circuit, a second radio frequency amplification circuit, a first transformer, a second transformer and a coupler, the first radio frequency amplification circuit is used for outputting a first radio frequency signal, and the second radio frequency amplification circuit is used for outputting a second radio frequency signal; the first transformer comprises a first coil and a second coil, and the second transformer comprises a third coil and a fourth coil; the first coil is connected with the first radio frequency amplification circuit, and the second coil is coupled with the first coil to output a first coupling signal corresponding to the first radio frequency signal; the third coil is connected with the second radio frequency amplification circuit, and the fourth coil is coupled with the third coil to output a second coupling signal corresponding to the second radio frequency signal; the coupler is used for performing power synthesis on the first coupling signal and the second coupling signal to output a synthesized signal. The radio frequency power amplifier and the radio frequency front-end module have better bandwidth performance.

The invention provides a millimeter wave digital power amplifier based on a serial transmission line balun synthesis network, and belongs to the technical field of millimeter wave digital power amplifiers. According to the millimeter wave digital power amplifier, firstly, a driving power distribution network based on a bridge and a transformer is adopted, and radio frequency power is subjected to differential conversion and then input into a digital power amplifier unit array; secondly, the digital power amplifier unit adopts a differential Cascode structure with a neutralizing capacitor, so that the gain and the output impedance of the digital power amplifier unit can be effectively improved; finally, a synthesis network based on a series transmission line balun is adopted, the synthesis network can realize active load modulation optimization of the digital power amplifier, the impedance matching condition of the digital power amplifier under the maximum and partial rollback output power levels is improved and balanced, and the overall efficiency is improved.

The invention relates to a terahertz high-power power amplifier assembly, which belongs to the field of electronic devices and comprises a synthesis network consisting of a synthesis network upper cavity and a synthesis network lower cavity, and a small signal amplification module, a medium-power amplification module, a driving-stage power amplifier module, a final-stage power amplifier module and a detection module are arranged on the back surface of the synthesis network lower cavity. An E-plane waveguide directional coupler is arranged in the synthesis network, the small signal amplification module, the medium-power amplification module, the driving-stage power amplification module, the final-stage power amplification module and the E-plane waveguide directional coupler are electrically connected in sequence, and a port of the E-plane waveguide directional coupler is electrically connected with the detection module; a waveguide tube is arranged in the installation position of each module in the synthesis network, and the modules are electrically connected through the waveguide tubes. According to the invention, each stage of amplifier is modularly designed, so that the isolation degree among devices of a link can be increased, and the self-excitation risk caused by space radiation is reduced. And the testability of a single module is improved, and the troubleshooting cost and time are reduced.

The invention belongs to the technical field of integrated circuits, and particularly relates to a radio frequency amplifier bandwidth expansion circuit based on resistor-capacitor series feedback. The bandwidth expansion circuit comprises a first-stage common-gate amplifier, a second-stage common-source amplifier, a transformer-based inter-stage matching network between the two stages of amplifiers, and two resistor-capacitor series feedback paths, and a resistor-capacitor series feedback path is bridged at two sides of the interstage matching network, and feedback is introduced from the output end of the common source amplifier to the output end of the common gate amplifier, so that the quality factors of two resonant cavities of the interstage matching transformer are adjusted, and the targets of adjusting the gain of the amplifier and expanding the bandwidth of the radio frequency amplifier are further realized.

Signal processing circuitry configured to receive an input signal and to output a processed output signal, wherein the signal processing circuitry is configured to: receive an indication of a temporal location of a transient in the input signal; and provide, in the processed output signal, a masking signal bridging the temporal location of the transient to mask the transient.

According to embodiments, a method performed by an electronic device includes: identifying a channel bandwidth; identifying one or more active DPD units among a plurality of DPD units of a digital pre-distortion (DPD) circuit based on the channel bandwidth and amount of resource allocated within the channel bandwidth; generating a DPD output signal of the DPD circuit based on the one or more active DPD units; generating an amplifier output signal based on the DPD output signal of the DPD circuit, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC), and a power amplifier (PA). While the DPD output signal is generated, at least one DPD unit different from the one or more active DPD units among the plurality of DPD units of the DPD circuit is deactivated.