2933 results about "Audio power amplifier" patented technology

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.

A logarithmic amplifier includes programmable gain amplifiers each having a different gain, wherein an input of each of the programmable gain amplifiers is coupled to an input of the logarithmic amplifier; and a summing circuit having inputs coupled to a corresponding output of each of the programmable gain amplifiers and an output coupled to an output of the logarithmic amplifier, wherein the summing circuit generates a logarithmic transfer function having piecewise linear segments.

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.

The utility model discloses an acousto-optic coupling three-dimensional flame area temperature field monitoring system, which comprises a computer, a power amplifier, a relay, a loudspeaker, a microphone and a signal analyzer which are sequentially connected, and further comprises a three-dimensional rack, a light field camera and a blackbody furnace, a plurality of groups of loudspeakers and microphones are arranged, and each group of loudspeakers and microphones are located at the same position on the three-dimensional rack; the signal input end of the light field camera is respectively connected with the three-dimensional flame and the blackbody furnace in the three-dimensional rack, and the signal output end of the light field camera is connected with the signal input end of the computer; the blackbody furnace is used for the light field camera to calibrate the relationship between the gray level of the two-dimensional layered flame original brightness image and the radiation intensity; measurement targets of the system are gas temperature and three-dimensional flame temperature in a three-dimensional to-be-measured area which is surrounded by a three-dimensional rack and contains three-dimensional flame, the overall temperature of a gas medium in a three-dimensional space is measured by using a non-contact sound velocity method temperature measurement principle, and a more comprehensive contribution is made to temperature monitoring of a key area of a hearth.

A system and method are used to maintain a variance in feedback factors of an amplifier between the first and second phases either below a threshold value or within a specified range. The system includes the amplifier and first through third capacitances. The amplifier is coupled between an input node and an output node that operates during first and second phases of operation. The first capacitance is coupled across the amplifier and between the input node and the output node during the first and second phases of operation. The second capacitance is coupled to the input node during the first phase of operation. The third capacitance is coupled to one of the input and output nodes during one or both of the first and second phases of operation.

The utility model discloses an ear canal embedded hearing aid, which relates to the technical field of medical instruments, and comprises a bearing assembly, the bearing assembly comprises a first packaging shell, a second packaging shell and a filter screen, a signal processing piece and a lithium battery are respectively arranged in the first packaging shell, and the second packaging shell is provided with a second packaging shell. The signal processing piece comprises a signal amplifier, a filter and a central processing unit, and a micro air pump, a control switch, a potentiometer and a microphone are installed on the right side of the first packaging shell. The beneficial effects of the utility model are that through the arrangement of the miniature air pump, the air delivery pipe and the expansion anti-skid assembly, when the ear canals of different users have large differences or need to be worn stably, the miniature air pump can be controlled to work, so that air enters the hollow rubber ring through the air delivery pipe and the delivery pipe, and the hollow rubber ring is gradually expanded to be in contact with the ear wall; therefore, the wearing stability of the bearing assembly is ensured, and the sound definition after conversion of the receiver is ensured.

A radio-frequency (RF) circuit including: a multi-tone generation circuit configured to generate a multi-tone signal including a plurality of tones; a predistortion circuit configured to predistort the multi-tone signal or a modulation signal and output a predistortion signal; a power amplifier configured to amplify the predistortion signal and output an output signal; and a predistortion modeling circuit configured to model a predistortion model corresponding to the predistortion circuit based on the predistortion signal corresponding to the multi-tone signal and the output signal.

The invention is a portable micromagnetic field generator device comprising a battery, a circuit board with a microcontroller, a memory and a current amplifier. The memory functions to store information, such as audio information, for the generation of specific pulsed magnetic field frequencies of pairs of such frequencies. The MCU uses the stored information to form a variable microcurrent, which is amplified via a current amplifier. The amplified current is used by a coil assembly to generate a variable micromagnetic field. The device is kept in close proximity to a user's body for the micromagnetic field to impart its therapeutic effects. The device also includes a display device and several buttons so that users may select the type of micromagnetic field they wish to use, as well as stop, start and pause the micromagnetic field generation.

A power amplifier includes a 3-dB coupler which splits a first signal into a second signal and a third signal lagging behind the second signal by 90°, a carrier amplifier, a peak amplifier, and a hybrid coupler. The carrier amplifier amplifies the second signal and outputs a fourth signal when the first-signal power level is a first level or higher. The peak amplifier amplifies the third signal and outputs a fifth signal when the first-signal power level is a second level or higher, which is higher than the first level. The hybrid coupler includes a first transmission line receiving the fourth signal at its first terminal, and a second transmission line receiving the fifth signal at its first terminal and being open at its second terminal. The first transmission line outputs, from its second terminal, an amplified first signal obtained by combining the fourth and fifth signals.

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.

The invention is suitable for the technical field of communication, and particularly relates to a method for detecting mismatched harmonic waves of a power amplifier. The method comprises the steps that a first power detection unit is connected with a coupler through a control unit, the standing-wave ratio of a to-be-detected power amplifier chip is adjusted to be 1: 1 through a tuner, and the power of an input signal of a vector signal generator is adjusted till the target power of the to-be-detected power amplifier chip is reached; the second power detection unit is connected with the coupler through the control unit, the output standing-wave ratio of the to-be-detected power amplifier chip is adjusted to a preset specific value through the tuner, and when the tuner modulates phases at intervals of preset degrees, the harmonic power of the to-be-detected power amplifier chip in each phase is recorded through the second power detection unit. Compared with the prior art, the method can accurately test and evaluate the harmonic wave of the to-be-tested power amplifier chip under the mismatched standing wave condition, thereby evaluating the harmonic wave index of the to-be-tested power amplifier chip.

The invention discloses a porcelain insulator nondestructive testing device and method based on chirp modulation photoacoustic spectroscopy. The device comprises a signal generator, a signal processing module and a signal processing module, the laser is connected with the signal generator; the power amplifier is connected with the laser; the laser collimator is connected with the power amplifier; and the signal collector collects the sound wave signals, converts the sound wave signals into electric signals, transmits the electric signals to the computer through a cable for data processing, obtains a spectrogram of the sound wave signals, and judges whether defects exist in the porcelain insulator or not according to the spectrogram. According to the porcelain insulator nondestructive testing device adopting chirp modulation and photoacoustic spectroscopy, characteristic frequency scanning is achieved through chirp modulation, a porcelain insulator acoustic signal spectrogram is obtained through the solid photoacoustic effect, non-power-cut nondestructive testing of porcelain insulators can be achieved, and the detection efficiency of porcelain insulator defects is greatly improved.

The invention discloses a multi-modal stimulation regulation and control system combining interactive feedback and AI self-adaption. The system comprises an AI main control and synchronization module which generates a unified rhythm time sequence; the acoustic stimulation output module outputs a rhythm acoustic signal; the visual LED stimulation module outputs rhythm visual signals; the game / animation interaction module provides an interaction task synchronized with the acousto-optic rhythm; the sensing acquisition and feedback module is used for acquiring multi-modal physiological and behavior data in real time; the amplifier output module drives the execution module or equipment; the power management module realizes voltage stabilization and low power consumption switching; the behavior habit forming mechanism module binds a stimulation signal and an interaction task; and the human-assisted management interface module supports remote parameter setting and real-time monitoring. The interactive feedback and AI self-adaptive multi-mode stimulation regulation and control system is combined, microsecond-level synchronization and multi-source closed-loop self-adaption of sound and light and animation can be achieved, a guidance scheme for personalized customization of treatment and behavioral habit cultivation can be achieved, and the efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness of system regulation and control are remarkably 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 input capacitance of the pair of amplifiers.

The invention relates to the technical field of radio frequency integrated circuits, in particular to a harmonic suppression power amplifier combining a matching network and a feed network, which comprises a transistor, an input matching module, an output matching module, a stabilizing module and a bias module, the input matching module comprises a first parallel resonance unit, the first parallel resonance unit is used for second harmonic suppression, the output matching module comprises a series resonance unit and a second parallel resonance unit, the series resonance unit is used for resonating at a second harmonic frequency and performing low-impedance grounding on the second harmonic, and the second parallel resonance unit is used for resonating at a second harmonic frequency and performing low-impedance grounding on the second harmonic. The second parallel resonance unit is used for resonating at a third harmonic frequency and forms a high-impedance open circuit for the third harmonic, the output matching module is coupled to a drain electrode of the transistor, and the bias module comprises a grid bias sub-module and a drain bias sub-module. The grid bias sub-module is coupled to a connection node of the input matching module and the grid of the transistor, the drain bias sub-module is coupled to the output matching module, and the bias voltage of the transistor is jointly determined by the grid bias sub-module and the drain bias sub-module. The power amplifier has the effect of improving the efficiency level of the power amplifier while realizing harmonic suppression optimization.

A class D amplifier circuit receives an analog audio signal with a first reference voltage as its center level, and outputs an output pulse signal having a duty cycle that corresponds to the analog audio signal. A bias circuit generates a second reference voltage having a voltage level obtained as a division of the first reference voltage and the power supply voltage. A periodic voltage generating circuit of the class D amplifier circuit generates a periodic voltage having a triangle waveform or otherwise a sawtooth waveform having an amplitude that corresponds to the second reference voltage.

The invention belongs to the technical field of signal processing, and particularly discloses a deep learning driven power amplifier predistortion method, which comprises the following steps: constructing a signal matrix of a target signal sequence, the target signal sequence being obtained by preprocessing an original time signal sequence collected from a signal source; sequentially inputting the signal matrix into a PDTRANS predistortion model and a power amplifier, and obtaining an output signal sequence of the power amplifier; determining a loss function value based on the output signal sequence and the target signal sequence, and adjusting hyper-parameters of a PDTRANS pre-distortion model based on the loss function value; the steps of obtaining the output signal sequence of the power amplifier and adjusting the hyper-parameters of the PDTRANS predistortion model are repeated until the loss function is minimized, and the trained PDTRANS predistortion model matched with the power amplifier is obtained; and performing pre-distortion compensation on the power amplifier based on the trained PDTRANS pre-distortion model. According to the invention, accurate pre-distortion modeling of the power amplifier is realized.

A mixer includes a mixing stage, and a first transistor and a second transistor coupled to the mixing stage. A gate of the first transistor is coupled to a first input of the mixer, and a gate of the second transistor is coupled to a second input of the mixer. The mixer also includes a first source resistor coupled to a source of the first transistor, and a second source resistor coupled to a source of the second transistor. The mixer further includes an amplifier having a first input coupled to the source of the first transistor, and a second input coupled to the source of the second transistor. The amplifier is configured to adjust at least one bias voltage of at least one of the first transistor and the second transistor based on a differential voltage between the first and second inputs of the amplifier.

The invention discloses a parallel constant-voltage digital audio power amplifier and a broadcasting system. Comprising a line input module, a line output module, a first analog-to-digital conversion circuit, a second analog-to-digital conversion circuit, a third analog-to-digital conversion circuit, a digital signal processor, a single-chip microcomputer, a digital-to-analog conversion circuit, an error comparator, a modulator, an integrating circuit, a pulse width modulation input half-bridge output stage, and a first carrier frequency selection and gain adjustment module. A second carrier frequency selection and gain adjustment module, a first LC filter, a high-frequency compensation network, a communication bus and a power switch. The technical problems that an existing multi-channel parallel digital constant-voltage power amplifier is only limited to power amplifier channels in the same power amplifier, the parallel connection mode only uses the first channel as a main power amplifier and only uses the other channels as slave power amplifiers, and certain limitation exists are solved.

The invention discloses an audio parameter adjusting circuit and method, a control device, a storage medium, a computer program product and an audible device, and relates to the technical field of electronic equipment.The audio parameter adjusting circuit comprises a power amplifier, an impedance detection circuit and a main control circuit, and the power amplifier end of the power amplifier is electrically connected with a loudspeaker; the impedance detector is used for detecting the impedance of the loudspeaker and outputting an impedance detection signal; the main control circuit controls the power amplifier to output a sweep frequency signal to the loudspeaker so as to drive the loudspeaker to work; and determining the current resonant frequency of the loudspeaker according to the impedance detection signal, and determining a target sound effect parameter corresponding to the current resonant frequency according to a mapping relationship between the resonant frequency and the target sound effect parameter, so as to adjust the sound effect parameter of the loudspeaker to the target sound effect parameter corresponding to the current resonant frequency, and enable the loudspeaker to work in a target state. The invention aims to improve the problem of performance reduction caused by aging of the loudspeaker, improve the sound effect of the loudspeaker by adjusting the sound effect parameters, and improve the user experience.

The embodiment of the invention provides a power amplifier, a radio frequency module and electronic equipment. The power amplifier comprises a signal input end, a signal output end and a plurality of tube cores which are connected in parallel; the tube core comprises electrode finger strips extending along a first direction, and the electrode finger strips comprise a grid electrode finger strip, a source electrode finger strip and a drain electrode finger strip; in the second direction, the signal input end and the signal output end are located on the two sides of the multiple tube cores respectively, and the second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The extension direction of the electrode finger strips is perpendicular to the signal input / output direction, so that the performance of the electrode finger strips can be optimized to the maximum extent and the requirement of high power can be met under the limited layout area, and the flexible possibility is created for the circuit architecture design.

Disclosed in the present invention are a power amplifier module for implementing average power protection, an electronic device, and a method. The power amplifier module comprises: a controller, configured to provide logic control and bias voltage for a radio frequency power amplifier; the radio frequency power amplifier, configured to amplify the power of a radio frequency signal and then output the amplified radio frequency signal to a filter; and a filter for frequency bands, configured to filter the amplified radio frequency signal to obtain a radio frequency signal of a required specific frequency band. When the detected power of the radio frequency power amplifier is greater than or equal to a first power threshold, and the time during which the detected power is greater than or equal to the first power threshold reaches a first time threshold, the power amplifier module enters an average power protection operating mode, and the controller adjusts the gain of a power amplification unit, so as to protect the filter in the power amplifier module from being burnt out.

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.

Digital pre-distorter (DPD) coefficients can be used to compensate for non-linearity of a power amplifier (PA). A system can receive a defined waveform from transmit hardware. The system can transmit an output waveform with a defined modulation from the PA. The system can capture samples of the output waveform. The system can submit the samples to a processing system temporarily connected to a transmitter system. The system can compute a PA model using the defined waveform and the samples. The system can determine a plurality of Digital Pre-Distorter (DPD) coefficients for a plurality of power levels, frequencies, and temperatures based on the PA model. The system can store the plurality of DPD coefficients to a memory of the transmitter system. Additionally, the system can add predistortions using the plurality of DPD coefficients to a plurality of input waveforms to correct for impairments introduced by the PA.

Disclosed are an output network of a Doherty amplifier, a Doherty amplifier including the output network, and a design method of the Doherty amplifier. The output network includes a combination node, a main output network connected between an output port of the main amplifier and the combination node, an auxiliary output network connected between an output port of the auxiliary amplifier and the combination nod, and a merging matching network connected between the combination node and a radio frequency output port of the Doherty amplifier, where the merging matching network is configured for the node impedance at the combination node being a complex impedance, and the main output network and the auxiliary output network are configured for the node impedance matching with goal load impedances of the main amplifier and the auxiliary amplifier.

The invention relates to the technical field of audio driving, in particular to a driving circuit and method and electronic equipment. The method comprises the following steps: arranging two boosting units at the output end of the power amplifier, respectively receiving two paths of signals with opposite phases output by the power amplifier so as to realize that boosted signals output by the two boosting units are also signals with opposite phases, arranging one boosting unit to be connected with the positive electrode of the piezoelectric ceramic module, and arranging the other boosting unit to be connected with the negative electrode of the piezoelectric ceramic module; and the other boosting unit is connected with the negative electrode of the piezoelectric ceramic module, so that the driving voltage of the piezoelectric ceramic module is increased. The boost unit is simple in structure, occupies a small area of a circuit board, and can be effectively applied to miniaturized electronic equipment.

Embodiment of the disclosure relate to power splitter comprising a first separation block comprising an input and a first output, the first separation block being configured to receive an input signal via the input and forward the input signal. The power splitter further comprises a second output and a first non-linear impedance connected to the first separation block. The first non-linear impedance is configured to reflect a reflection signal of the input signal to the first output and forward a forward signal of the input signal to the second output, wherein a power ratio between the reflection signal and the forward signal is based on a configuration of the first non-linear impedance.

The invention discloses an enable signal control method and device and a storage medium. In the method, when it is detected that the current carrier-to-noise ratio of a satellite signal is out of a preset range, a second duty ratio is determined, and when an enable signal of the second duty ratio is used for controlling an amplifier, the carrier-to-noise ratio of the satellite signal is in the preset range. Meanwhile, when the second duty ratio is lower than the first duty ratio, the duty ratio of the enable signal is adjusted from the first duty ratio to the second duty ratio, and the amplifier is controlled based on the enable signal of the second duty ratio. The power consumption of the electronic equipment can be reduced while the performance benefit of the GNSS receiver is not influenced.

Methods and apparatus for amplifying a signal for transmission via an amplifier circuit are described. An example amplifier circuit generally includes an amplifier configured to amplify a signal for wireless transmission and including a first transistor and a second transistor. The amplifier circuit also includes: a transformer coupled to an output of the amplifier; a first coil coupled to the first transistor and inductively coupled to the transformer; and a second coil coupled to the second transistor and inductively coupled to the transformer.

The present invention discloses an online monitoring method for offshore wind turbine blades based on voiceprint recognition, which belongs to the field of acoustic signal analysis of wind turbine blades. The present invention obtains wind turbine voiceprint data, weather condition data and wind turbine power generation data, constructs a signal processing model, denoises, amplifies and extracts features of the collected voiceprint signal through a signal amplifier, a filter and a feature extraction unit, constructs a deep learning model, imports voiceprint signal parameters, weather data and wind turbine power generation into the deep learning model to evaluate future wind turbine blade cracks, constructs a crack assessment model, imports crack sound source position, crack depth, crack length and estimated damage score into the crack assessment model to evaluate the degree of wind turbine blade cracks under future weather conditions, classifies wind turbine cracks according to the crack damage score and gives an alarm, and realizes early warning of future wind turbine blade cracks by combining the voiceprint signal, weather condition and power generation of offshore wind turbine blades.