Mediatek Corporation

Hsing-ting Yu

Keng Leong Fong

Osama K A Shana'a

I-Chang Wu

Fei Song

Chiyuan Lu

YuenHui Chee

Methods and apparatus for providing adaptive biasing to power amplifiers. Adaptive bias circuits are configured to provide sharp turn on and/or current clamping to improve the efficiency of a power amplifier over a wide input signal bandwidth. Sharp turn on may be achieved using a subtraction technique to subtract outputs from multiple detectors. Clamping may be achieved using MOSFET device characteristics to pull the device from the triode region into the saturation, subtraction techniques to subtract the outputs from multiple detectors, and/or by using circuit devices, such as diodes.

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Hsing-ting Yu