6152results about "Power amplifiers" patented technology

Aspects of this disclosure relate to a bulk acoustic wave device that includes a multi-layer raised frame structure. The multi-layer raised frame structure includes a first raised frame layer positioned between a first electrode and a second electrode of the bulk acoustic wave device. The first raised frame layer has a lower acoustic impedance than the first electrode. The first raised frame layer and the second raised frame layer overlap in an active region of the bulk acoustic wave device. Related filters, multiplexers, packaged modules, wireless communication devices, and methods are disclosed.

A high-frequency module is disclosed, comprising a carrier amplifier, peak amplifiers, a transformer, a phase-shifting line, and bias circuits, all integrated into a semiconductor IC. The input terminals of the semiconductor IC are connected to the input ends of both the carrier and peak amplifiers, while the output terminals are connected to their respective output ends. The transformer has one end connected to the output terminal, with the other end connected to the output terminal via the phase-shifting line. Additionally, the bias circuits are connected to the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifiers to regulate their operation.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to acoustic wave devices on stacked die. A first die can include first acoustic wave device configured to generate a boundary acoustic wave. A second die can include a second acoustic wave device configured to generate a second boundary acoustic wave, in which the second die is stacked with the first die. The first acoustic wave resonator can include a piezoelectric layer, an interdigital transducer electrode on the piezoelectric layer, and high acoustic velocity layers on opposing sides of the piezoelectric layer. The high acoustic velocity layers can each have an acoustic velocity that is greater than a velocity of the boundary acoustic wave.

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.

An example apparatus includes: class D amplifier circuitry having a first input, a second input, a third input, and an output, the first input of the class D amplifier circuitry coupled to the output of the class D amplifier circuitry; and class AB amplifier circuitry having a first input, a second input, a third input, and an output, the first input of the class AB amplifier circuitry coupled to the first input of the class D amplifier circuitry and the output of the class D amplifier circuitry, the second and third inputs of the class AB amplifier circuitry coupled to the second and third inputs of the class D amplifier circuitry, and the output of the class AB amplifier circuitry.

The invention provides a broadband Doherty power amplification circuit based on a coupler balun active load modulation network, which belongs to the field of radio frequency integrated circuits and comprises an input matching network, a self-adaptive biasing circuit, a main power amplifier, an auxiliary power amplifier and an output matching network. And the output matching network consists of two pairs of differential couplers and a section of 30-degree transmission line, so that the Doherty power amplifier has a broadband active load modulation function. Under a 65-nanometer CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor transistor) process, in a working frequency range of 40% of relative bandwidth, the power back-off characteristic is good, and the back-off efficiency is high in a broadband range.

Apparatus and methods for reconfigurable power amplifiers are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a transceiver configured to generate a first radio frequency signal of a first frequency band and a second radio frequency signal of a second frequency band, and a front-end system including a push-pull power amplifier configured to selectively amplify one of the first radio frequency signal or the second radio frequency signal based on a band control signal. The push-pull power amplifier includes an input balun, an output balun, and a pair of amplifiers coupled between the input balun and the output balun. The band control signal is operable to control an output capacitance of the pair of amplifiers.

Amplifier circuitry is provided that includes a splitter circuit, a combiner circuit, a first amplifier path coupled between the splitter circuit and the combiner circuit, and a second amplifier path coupled between the splitter circuit and the combiner circuit. The first amplifier path can include a first amplifier of a first type and a second amplifier of a second type different than the first type. The second amplifier path can include a third amplifier of the first type and a fourth amplifier of the second type. The first, second, third, and fourth amplifiers can be single-ended amplifiers with shunt inductors coupled at their outputs. The shunt inductors associated with the first and second amplifiers can be partially overlapped to save area. The shunt inductors associated with the third and fourth amplifiers can be partially overlapped to save area.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to symbol based envelope tracking. A voltage modulator circuit can generate an output bias voltage that tracks a root mean square symbol power of a radio frequency signal. A digital predistortion system in a signal path that provides the radio frequency signal can adjust a digital predistortion based on a symbol based envelope tracking state.

Described are concepts, systems, system architectures, circuits, methods, and techniques directed toward power management and control. In particular, described are concepts, systems, system architectures, circuits, methods, and techniques for implementing power converters that may not have a right-hand pole zero in their linearized, averaged control-to-output transfer function, but that may still have buck and boost functionality.

A power amplifier circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit configured to amplify a radio-frequency signal, a transformer disposed on an output side with respect to the differential amplifier circuit and including a primary winding and a secondary winding, and a dispersion circuit coupled to a midpoint of the primary winding of the transformer and configured to operate as an adjustment circuit. The dispersion circuit is configured to adjust, based on a supply voltage controlled in accordance with the envelope of the radio-frequency signal, a bias (bias current or bias voltage) to be supplied to the differential amplifier circuit.

The invention provides a low-noise amplification circuit and a radio frequency power amplifier module, and the low-noise amplification circuit comprises an input matching circuit, a cascode amplification structure, an output matching circuit and a path switching assembly. The input matching circuit comprises a first inductor, a second inductor, a first capacitor and a third inductor; the output matching circuit comprises a fourth inductor, a second capacitor, a fifth inductor, a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor; and the access switching assembly is used for selecting channels of the low-noise amplification circuit, so that a radio frequency signal accessed by the first inductor is directly output or output after being amplified by the cascode amplification structure. According to the low-noise amplification circuit, on the premise that the noise coefficient is reduced and the gain is matched, the order of an input and output matching network does not need to be increased, and correspondingly, the cost and the area of the low-noise amplification circuit are not increased.

Examples described herein include methods, devices, and systems which may compensate input data for nonlinear power amplifier noise to generate compensated input data. In compensating the noise, during an uplink transmission time interval (TTI), a switch path is activated to provide amplified input data to a receiver stage including a recurrent neural network (RNN). The RNN may calculate an error representative of the noise based partly on the input signal to be transmitted and a feedback signal to generate filter coefficient data associated with the power amplifier noise. The feedback signal is provided, after processing through the receiver, to the RNN. During an uplink TTI, the amplified input data may also be transmitted as the RF wireless transmission via an RF antenna. During a downlink TTI, the switch path may be deactivated and the receiver stage may receive an additional RF wireless transmission to be processed in the receiver stage.

An RF transmitter (1) having a gate-segmented power output stage (2) and a digital driver (5). The gate-segmented power output stage (2) includes a field-effect transistor with a plurality of gate fingers (32) and drain fingers (31) that define a gate periphery. The field-effect transistor comprises a plurality of power output stage segments (3) that each correspond to a respective part of the gate periphery, and that each have a respective power output stage segment input (4). The digital driver (5) has control outputs (6) which are connected to corresponding ones of the respective power output stage segment inputs (4), and is configured for individually switching each of the power output stage segments (3) between an on mode and a cut-off mode in dependence of one or more input signals to obtain a modulated RF carrier signal at an output (7) of the gate-segmented power output stage (2).

The embodiment of the invention provides a closed-loop control method for power driving and protection, and the method comprises the steps: constructing a voltage feedback type circuit through a high-speed operational amplifier, and forming a closed-loop gain structure through a feedback network of the voltage feedback type circuit; the load current of the output end of the voltage feedback type circuit is monitored in real time, and when the load current exceeds a first set threshold value, a protection mechanism is triggered to turn off the output stage; the power-on surge current is limited through the soft start control circuit; phase information of a load reflection coefficient is obtained, an inductance / capacitance combination of the variable dynamic impedance matching network is selected according to phase information table look-up, inductance / capacitance parameters are switched through a relay, and the transmission standing-wave ratio between the power amplifier and a load is optimized; monitoring the temperature of the radiating fin of the power tube, and dynamically adjusting the resistance value of the feedback network; and performing cooperative control of short-circuit protection, over-temperature protection and surge suppression according to the priority. According to the embodiment of the invention, the performance bottleneck in a load fluctuation scene is broken through.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio frequency signal management, in particular to a radio frequency power supply output power amplification coefficient analysis method and system, and the method comprises the following steps: obtaining the input power, voltage and current parameters of a radio frequency power supply amplifier, calculating the average value of the power supply output power, and analyzing the change trend of the power in a load state. Determining the operation state of the amplifier, and establishing a power output data set. According to the method, the running state of the amplifier is adjusted and optimized in real time by continuously tracking the average value of power output and carrying out detailed analysis on different load states, in addition, accurate adjustment of the amplification coefficient is ensured by quantitatively analyzing the power loss and the fluctuation range, and therefore the amplification effect is optimized, and the reliability of the amplifier is improved. The energy efficiency and the response capability of equipment are remarkably improved, challenges in a complex operation environment are effectively dealt with through fine power stability analysis and dynamic adjustment of an amplification coefficient, and continuous stability and high efficiency of power output are ensured.

A quadrature coupler includes four ports, four inductors, and six capacitors. The first through third capacitors are coupled in series between the first and fourth ports. A first intermediate node is between the first and second capacitors. A second intermediate node is between the second and third capacitors. The fourth through sixth capacitors are coupled in series between the second and third ports. A third intermediate node is between the fourth and fifth capacitors, and a fourth intermediate node is between the fifth and sixth capacitors. The first inductor is coupled between the first and second ports. The second inductor is coupled between the first and third intermediate nodes. The third inductor is coupled between the second and fourth intermediate nodes. The fourth inductor is coupled between the fourth and third ports. Variable tuning networks may be coupled between the first and fourth ports and the second and third ports.

The present application discloses a power supply selection switch circuit, a chip, and a radio frequency front-end module. The power supply selection switch circuit comprises a power supply selection switch and a boost circuit; the power supply selection switch is an N-type field effect transistor, a drain thereof is configured to receive a power supply voltage, and a source thereof is configured to be connected to a power amplifier and when being turned on, supply power to the power amplifier by means of the power supply voltage; an input end of the boost circuit is configured to receive the power supply voltage, an output end thereof is connected to a gate of the N-type field effect transistor, and the boost circuit is configured to raise the received power supply voltage by a preset amplitude and then output same; the preset amplitude is greater than an on threshold voltage of the N-type field effect transistor and less than 1.1 times of a withstand voltage of the N-type field effect transistor. According to the present application, the N-type field effect transistor is used as the power supply selection switch and has a small parasitic capacitance. A voltage difference between the gate and the drain of the N-type field effect transistor is controlled within a preset range by means of the boost circuit, so that the N-type field effect transistor has a small on-resistance, so as to meet both the requirements of a small on-resistance and a small parasitic capacitance.

The invention provides a broadband low-noise amplifier based on a three-coil coupling transformer. The broadband low-noise amplifier comprises an input matching network, a common-source differential output driving stage amplifier, an inter-stage matching network, a common-source differential output power stage amplifier and an output matching network which are connected in sequence, broadband matching is realized by using the input matching network and the inter-stage matching network, and the effective transconductance of the transistor is improved; through the cross-coupled capacitors, the LNA gain and stability on a broadband are improved, better isolation is realized, and input and output are decoupled; due to the design of the grounding capacitor, the linearity of the LNA is improved; through the combination of the three-coil coupling transformer and the differential topology, output signals are superposed in the same direction at the output end, and noise is cancelled in the reverse direction at the output end, so that the thermal noise is greatly inhibited, the isolation is improved through the output matching network, the insertion loss is reduced, and the output matching performance is optimized.

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 high-voltage power amplifier with an over-temperature and over-current protection circuit, and relates to the technical field of integrated circuits. The high-voltage operational amplifier comprises a high-voltage operational amplifier core unit and a self-adaptive protection circuit unit, the high-voltage operational amplifier core unit comprises a rail-to-rail input stage, a gain amplification stage and an AB type push-pull output stage which are sequentially cascaded, and the AB type push-pull output stage comprises a PMOS upper power tube and an NMOS lower power tube; the self-adaptive protection circuit unit comprises a PMOS (P-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) current-limiting protection circuit, an NMOS (N-channel Metal Oxide Semiconductor) current-limiting protection circuit and an over-temperature protection circuit; the PMOS current-limiting protection circuit is used for generating a high-voltage domain over-current control signal when the power tube on the PMOS is over-current; the NMOS current-limiting protection circuit is used for generating a low-voltage domain overcurrent control signal when the NMOS lower power tube is in overcurrent; the over-temperature protection circuit is used for generating high-voltage domain over-temperature turn-off signals and low-voltage domain over-temperature turn-off signals when the amplifier is over-temperature; and finally, carrying out logic synthesis on the corresponding over-current control signal and the over-temperature turn-off signal to generate a gate clamping signal.

An amplifier circuit including a first amplifier having a first amplifier input and a first amplifier output and a transformer including a first transformer component having a first primary winding in series with the first amplifier output and a first secondary winding coupled to the first amplifier input. The first primary winding and the first secondary winding are arranged such that a portion of a first magnetic field generated by the first primary winding couples to the first secondary winding through a first magnetically coupled feedback loop. The transformer further includes a second transformer component having a second primary winding in series with an output of a second amplifier and a second secondary winding coupled to an input of the second amplifier input. A portion of a second magnetic field generated by the second primary winding couples to the second secondary winding through a second magnetically coupled feedback loop.

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.

The application discloses an RF push-pull power amplifier chip, wherein the second end of the first capacitor is connected to the first pad of the chip, and the second end of the second capacitor is connected to the second pad of the chip, and the first pad is bonded to the second pad by a wire. The first capacitor, second capacitor and wire form an impedance matching circuit, which participates in impedance matching of the chip together with the first balun. In this way, the RF push-pull power amplifier chip can support a larger bandwidth, and the equivalent inductance can be changed by adjusting the length of the wire, so that the impedance matching circuit can be adjusted more flexibly in a limited chip area. Therefore, the bandwidth performance of the RF push-pull power amplifier chip would not be affected, and the occupied area of the chip can be reduced.

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.

Disclosed are a power amplifier and a method for controlling a power amplifier. The method includes providing an input signal to the first amplification path and the second amplification path; and supplying a first DC bias voltage and a second DC bias voltage to a control port of the third transistor and a control port of the fourth transistor respectively, where current conduction trenches of the third transistor and the fourth transistor comprise same materials and the first DC bias voltage is higher than the second DC bias voltage.

A method of adjusting an impedance of a power amplifier of a radio frequency system for matching with an antenna switch die is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes connecting the power amplifier to the antenna switch die via an impedance adjustment circuit, the impedance adjustment circuit including an input node, an output node, a plurality of electrical components arranged between the input node and the output node, and at least one switch configured to selectively electrically connect at least one of the electrical components to the input node and the output node. The method further includes determining an Error Vector Magnitude of the radio frequency system for each of a plurality of states of the at least one switch, and controlling the at least one switch to enter the state of the plurality of states that minimizes the Error Vector Magnitude of the radio frequency system.

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.

Disclosed in the present invention are a radio frequency front-end module with input clipping protection, and an electronic device. The radio frequency front-end module comprises at least one transmission path, which comprises at least one stage of a power amplifier circuit, and an output matching circuit. Each stage of amplifier circuit comprises at least one clipping circuit and a biasing circuit thereof, and an input matching circuit and a power amplifier, wherein the clipping circuit, the input matching circuit, the power amplifier and the output matching circuit are sequentially connected in series; and the clipping circuit is used for performing clipping processing on an input signal power and then outputting a signal having a relatively small power, and when the input power of the transmission path is greater than a set threshold value, the clipping circuit enables a clipping function, such that the power amplifier is protected by means of reducing the input power.