Amplifier with switchable transformer

    公开(公告)号:US12132455B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17647534

    申请日:2022-01-10

    IPC分类号: H03F9/00 H03F3/24

    摘要: In certain aspects, an apparatus includes a first amplifier having a first output and a second output, and a transformer. The transformer includes a first switchable inductor coupled between the first output and the second output, a first capacitor coupled in parallel with the first switchable inductor, a second switchable inductor magnetically coupled to the first switchable inductor, a second capacitor coupled in parallel with the second switchable inductor, a third switchable inductor magnetically coupled to the first switchable inductor, and a third capacitor coupled in parallel with the third switchable inductor.

    Power amplifiers
    4.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12132450B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-29

    申请号:US17695500

    申请日:2022-03-15

    摘要: A power amplifier structure includes at least one power amplifier circuit. The power amplifier circuit includes a transistor of a first type connected in series with a transistor of a second type connected between the same voltage supply. In a non-limiting nonexclusive example, an n-type transistor is connected in series with a p-type transistor connected between Vdd. The power amplifier structure can include two amplifier circuits configured in a differential amplifier structure. The differential amplifier structure includes two amplifier circuits operably connected in parallel between the same voltage supply.

    Radio-frequency power amplifier with intermodulation distortion mitigation

    公开(公告)号:US12126310B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-22

    申请号:US18465910

    申请日:2023-09-12

    申请人: Apple Inc.

    发明人: Nitesh Singhal

    IPC分类号: H03F3/24 H04B1/40

    摘要: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. Radio-frequency power amplifier circuitry may include an amplifier, an input transformer for coupling radio-frequency input signals to the amplifier, an active inductor load coupled to the input transformer, and a second order intermodulation generation circuit configured to generate and inject a second order intermodulation product into the input transformer. The injected second order intermodulation product can be used to cancel out unwanted third order intermodulation products generated by the amplifier, which reduces intermodulation distortion experienced by the amplifier circuitry.

    WIRELESS TRANSCEIVER
    8.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240340028A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-10

    申请号:US18746721

    申请日:2024-06-18

    申请人: MaxLinear, Inc.

    IPC分类号: H04B1/00 H03F3/24 H04B1/48

    摘要: An example device may include an antenna node configured to be coupled to an antenna element. The antenna node may be configured to pass wireless communications over multiple frequency bands. The device may also include multiple signal paths coupled to the antenna node. Each of the multiple signal paths may be configured to carry a signal from a different one of the multiple frequency bands. The device may further include a switch element coupled to the antenna node by the multiple signal paths and an amplifier circuit within the multiple signal paths between the switch element and the antenna node. The amplifier circuit may be configured to amplify the signals carried by the multiple signal paths.

    Amplifier with stacked transconducting cells in parallel and/or cascade “current mode” combining

    公开(公告)号:US12113486B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-08

    申请号:US17378564

    申请日:2021-07-16

    摘要: An amplifier with stacked transconducting cells in parallel and/or cascade “current mode” combining is disclosed herein. In one or more embodiments, a method for operation of a high-voltage signal amplifier comprises inputting, into each transconducting cell of a plurality of transconducting cells, a direct current (DC) supply current (Idc), an alternating current (AC) radio frequency (RF) input current (IRF_IN), and an RF input signal (RFIN). The method further comprises outputting, by each of the transconducting cells of the plurality of transconducting cells, the DC supply current (Idc) and an AC RF output current (IRF_OUT). In one or more embodiments, the transconducting cells are connected together in cascode for the DC supply current (Idc), are connected together in parallel (or in cascade) for the RF input signal (RFIN), and are connected together in parallel (or in cascade) for the AC RF output currents (IRF_OUT).

    POWER AMPLIFIER CIRCUIT
    10.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240333231A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-10-03

    申请号:US18619743

    申请日:2024-03-28

    摘要: A power amplifier circuit includes a distortion compensation amplifier circuit that includes a first amplifier that amplifies a first signal distributed from an input signal, and a second amplifier connected in parallel to the first amplifier, that amplifies a second signal distributed from the input signal and having a different phase from the first signal, and outputs an amplified signal obtained by combining a signal output from the first amplifier and the second amplifier, and an output amplifier circuit that outputs an output signal obtained by amplifying the amplified signal. The distortion compensation amplifier circuit further includes a control circuit that controls, based on power of the input signal, the first gain and the second gain to compensate for a change in a phase of the output amplifier circuit with respect to a change in the power of the signal input to the output amplifier circuit.