CA2435310A1 - High efficiency wideband linear wireless power amplifier - Google Patents

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CA2435310A1
CA2435310A1 CA002435310A CA2435310A CA2435310A1 CA 2435310 A1 CA2435310 A1 CA 2435310A1 CA 002435310 A CA002435310 A CA 002435310A CA 2435310 A CA2435310 A CA 2435310A CA 2435310 A1 CA2435310 A1 CA 2435310A1
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    • HELECTRICITY
    • H04ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE
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    • H04B7/00Radio transmission systems, i.e. using radiation field
    • H04B7/005Control of transmission; Equalising
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03FAMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/02Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation
    • H03F1/0205Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers
    • H03F1/0211Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers with control of the supply voltage or current
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03FAMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/02Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation
    • H03F1/0205Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers
    • H03F1/0211Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers with control of the supply voltage or current
    • H03F1/0244Stepped control
    • HELECTRICITY
    • H03ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03FAMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/32Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion

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Abstract

An apparatus (150), system (100) and method (400-440) are illustrated for power amplification of an input signal to produce a substantially linear amplified output signal, for broadband wireless applications such as 3G
cellular and broadband CDMA systems, without causing significant intermodulation distortion or spectral growth. The preferred system (100) embodiment includes an envelope detector (110) to determine an envelope detector voltage from the input signal; a tracking power supply (120) to determine a supply voltage, preferably as a substantially quantized replica of the envelope detector voltage; an input signal conditioner (150) to determine, in response to the supply voltage, a corresponding phase adjustment and a corresponding gain adjustment, and to modify the input signal using the corresponding phase adjustment and the corresponding gain adjustment to produce a conditioned input signal for power amplification. The preferred system (100) embodiment further includes a power amplifier which operates using the supply voltage, and which amplifies the conditioned input signal to produce the amplified output signal. In the preferred embodiment, the corresponding phase adjustment and a corresponding gain adjustment are separately and independently determined from piecewise linear mappings of a phase response and an amplitude response, respectively, of the power amplifier to a range of variation of the supply voltage.

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1. A system for power amplification of an input signal to produce an amplified output signal, the system comprising:
an envelope detector, the envelope detector operable to determine an envelope detector voltage from the input signal;
a tracking power supply operably coupled to the envelope detector, the tracking power supply operable to determine a supply voltage from the envelope detector voltage;
an input signal conditioner operably coupled to the tracking power supply, the input signal conditioner operative, in response to the supply voltage, to determine a corresponding phase adjustment and a corresponding gain adjustment, the input signal conditioner further operative to modify the input signal using the corresponding phase adjustment and the corresponding gain adjustment to produce a conditioned input signal; and a power amplifier, the power amplifier operably coupled to the tracking power supply for reception of the supply voltage and operably coupled to the input signal conditioner to amplify the conditioned input signal to produce the amplified output signal.
2. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
a first delay circuit operably coupled to the input signal conditioner to synchronize the input signal to the supply voltage from the tracking power supply.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
a second delay circuit operably coupled to the tracking power supply to synchronize the supply voltage to the conditioned input signal from the input signal conditioner.
4. The system of claim 1, wherein the tracking power supply is further operative to determine the supply voltage as a substantially quantized version of the envelope detector voltage.
5. The system of claim 1, wherein the amplified output signal is a substantially linear replica of the input signal.
6. A method for power amplification of an input signal to produce an amplified output signal, the method comprising:
(a) envelope detecting the input signal to determine an envelope detector voltage;
(b) determining a supply voltage from the envelope detector voltage;
(c) in response to the supply voltage, determining a corresponding phase adjustment and a corresponding gain adjustment;
(d) modifying the input signal using the corresponding phase adjustment and the corresponding gain adjustment to produce a conditioned input signal; and (e) using the supply voltage, amplifying the conditioned input signal to produce the amplified output signal.
7. The method of claim 6, wherein step (d) further comprises:
synchronizing the input signal to the supply voltage.
8. The method of claim 6, wherein step (e) further comprises:
synchronizing the supply voltage to the conditioned input signal.
9. The method of claim 6, wherein the supply voltage is determined as a substantially quantized version of the envelope detector voltage.
10. The method of claim 6, wherein the amplified output signal is a substantially linear replica of the input signal.
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