4488results about "RF amplifier" 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.

Aspects of this disclosure relate to acoustic wave filters with bulk acoustic wave resonators configured to excite an overtone mode as a main mode. A bulk acoustic wave resonator of the filter can include a plurality of stacked piezoelectric layers positioned between a pair of electrodes.

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.

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for network-assisted signaling for uplink digital pre-distortion (DPD). A gNB may use an uplink reference signal (RS) to measure a user equipment's (UE's) power amplifier (PA) nonlinearity, where the UE may transmit its UE-specific RS with maximum transmit (Tx) power at a PA measurement window in the uplink. The gNB may train an artificial intelligence-based model to approximate the pre-distortion function (with PA parameters). The gNB may signal DPD-related information, and the UE may determine (and adjust) its DPD function based on the gNB signalling.

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and provides a radio frequency low-noise amplifier which comprises an input matching module, a power amplification module, an output matching module, an RC attenuation module and an RC feedback module, the first end of the first inductor serves as the input end of the output matching module, the first end of the first inductor is connected with the output end of the power amplification module, the control end of the switch and the first end of the first adjustable resistor, and the second end of the first inductor is connected with the first end of the second inductor and the first end of the third capacitor. The output end of the switch is connected with the first end of the first capacitor and the first end of the second capacitor. The second end of the second capacitor is connected with the second end of the first adjustable resistor and the second end of the second inductor and used for being connected with a power supply. The second end of the first capacitor is connected with the second end of the third capacitor and serves as the output end of the output matching circuit. The radio frequency low-noise amplifier is adjustable in gain, low in noise and good in linearity performance.

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.

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.

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 crest factor reduction circuit in a signal path that provides the radio frequency signal can adjust a crest factor reduction threshold such that the crest factor reduction threshold corresponds to the output bias voltage.

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.

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.

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.

A packaged RF transistor amplifier includes an RF transistor amplifier die having a first terminal, a first lead, an integrated passive device that includes a first series microstrip transmission line, a first bond wire coupled between the first terminal and the first series microstrip transmission line, and a second bond wire coupled between the first series microstrip transmission line and the first lead.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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).

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.

A calibration circuit includes a replica transconductance stage that is a replica of a transconductance amplifier in a serializer / deserializer (SerDes) interface and a replica transimpedance stage that is a replica of a transimpedance amplifier in the SerDes interface. The replica transimpedance stage has an input coupled to its output. A comparison circuit is configured to generate a difference signal representative of a difference between voltage levels of an input signal received at an input of the replica transconductance stage and an output signal representative of voltage level at the output of the replica transimpedance stage. Replica feedback resistors are configured to couple an output of the replica transimpedance stage to the input of the replica transconductance stage. The difference signal can be used to select resistance values provided by the replica feedback resistors and by corresponding gain control resistors in the transimpedance amplifier in the SerDes interface.

The present disclosure discloses a Doherty power amplifier, including: a quadrature coupler including a first coupled inductor and a second coupled inductor, the quadrature coupler being configured to split an input signal into a first signal and a second signal; a first amplifier circuit, configured to amplify the first signal; a second amplifier circuit, configured to amplify the second signal; and a load modulation network, which is an output voltage-combined Doherty load modulation network using a T equivalent model. An overlapping part of the coupled inductors is used to provide distributed parasitic capacitance, thereby eliminating the need to set an additional capacitor in the quadrature coupler, and therefore reducing an area. Through the T equivalent model, a quarter-wavelength transmission line is equated to the load modulation network of the embodiments of the present disclosure, multiple inductors are combined into transformers with small areas.

An amplifier circuit includes a high frequency input terminal and a high frequency output terminal, amplifiers, an output transformer having an input-side coil and an output-side coil, inductors, and a bypass capacitor. An output end of the amplifier is connected to one end of the input-side coil and one end of the inductor. An output end of the amplifier is connected to the other end of the input-side coil and one end of the inductor. The other end of the inductor, the other end of the inductor, and one end of the bypass capacitor are connected to a midpoint of the input-side coil. One end of the output-side coil is connected to the high frequency output terminal.

The invention relates to the technical field of wireless communication, and discloses a digital pre-distortion method for improving the linearity of a power amplifier in a phased array system, which comprises the following steps of: 1, acquiring a nonlinear parameter of the power amplifier under a dynamic load in real time, the nonlinear parameters comprise an input signal amplitude-phase characteristic, a temperature parameter and a quantum tunneling current parameter; 2, generating a pre-distortion compensation signal based on the nonlinear parameter, wherein the pre-distortion compensation signal comprises a quantum phase compensation item and a dynamic phase change compensation item; and step 3, superposing the pre-distortion compensation signal to an original input signal to generate a pre-distortion modulation signal. The linearity of the power amplifier is improved by introducing the quantum phase compensation item and the dynamic phase change compensation item, nonlinear parameters are accurately obtained in real time in a dynamic load environment, and the precision of pre-distortion compensation is improved.

Front end systems and related devices, integrated circuits, modules, and methods are disclosed. One such front end system includes a low noise amplifier in a receive path and a multi-mode power amplifier circuit in a transmit path. The low noise amplifier includes a first inductor, an amplification circuit, and a second inductor magnetically coupled to the first inductor to provide negative feedback to linearize the low noise amplifier. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit includes a stacked output stage including a transistor stack of two or more transistors. The multi-mode power amplifier circuit also includes a bias circuit configured to control a bias of at least one transistor of the transistor stack based on a mode of the multi-mode power amplifier circuit. Other embodiments of front end systems are disclosed, along with related devices, integrated circuits, modules, methods, and components thereof.