Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

Intel Corporation

Kunal Datta

Srivatsan Jayaraman

Jinghang Feng

Aleksey A Lyalin

Reza Kasnavi

Khaled A Fayed

Edward James Anthony

Shilpa Talwar

Kameran Azadet

Hosein Nikopour

Bryan K Casper

Ofir Degani

Wook Bong Lee

Ashoke Ravi

Michael Genossar

Claudio Da Silva

Stefano Pellerano

Debabani Choudhury

Rotem Banin

Sidharth Dalmia

Albert Molina

Georgios Yorgos Palaskas

Igal Kushnir

Duncan Kitchin

Saku Lahti

Oner Orhan

Emanuel Cohen

Mikko S Komulainen

Gadi Shor

Jayprakash Thakur

Eren Sasoglu

Arnaud Lucres Amadjikpe

Menashe Soffer

Ana M Yepes

Run Levinger

Omer Asaf

Moshe Teplitsky

Chintan S Thakkar

Eshel Gordon

Josef Hagn

Erkan Alpman

Nebil Tanzi

Ron Pongratz

Tawfiq Musah

Baljit Singh

Peter Sagazio

Amit Freiman

Eyal Goldberger

Kaushik Dasgupta

Eran Gerson

Shmuel Ravid

Shuhei Yamada

Yossi Tsfati

Anandaroop Chakrabarti

Resti Montoya Moreno

Noam Kogan

Nir Weisman

Marian K Verhelst

Meir Gordon

Mikko M Lampinen

Miroslav Baryakh

Naftali Landsberg

Ra'anan Sover

Avi Tsarfati

Lior Shakedd

Anat Bazov

Stefano Brenna

Saeid Daneshgar Asl

Amr M Fahim

Shinwon Kang

Te Yu Kao

Nathan G Narevsky

Gregory Chance

Brandon Davis

Ying Shi

Gregory W Chance

Brandon R Davis

Shanshan Zhao

Hemin Wu

Sheikh Nijam Ali

Apparatus and methods for biasing power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier includes a bipolar transistor having a base biased by a bias network having a reactance that controls an impedance at the transistor base to achieve substantially flat phase response over large dynamic power levels. For example, the bias network can have a frequency response, such as a high-pass or band-pass response, that reduces the impact of power level on phase distortion (AM/PM).

Apparatus and methods for biasing of power amplifiers

An envelope tracking system has an envelope tracker that is configured to generate a power amplifier supply voltage that changes is relation to an envelope of a radio frequency signal, and a power amplifier comprises at least a first amplification stage having an input terminal receiving a radio frequency (RF) signal to be amplified. The power amplifier has a first coupling unit, and a second coupling unit inductively coupled with the first coupling unit, the second coupling unit provides radio frequency-coupled feedback to the input terminal of the first amplification stage through a radio frequency-coupled feedback path.

Gain boosting in envelope tracking power amplifiers using RF-coupled feedback

In some embodiments, stability in power amplifiers can be achieved under high voltage standing wave ratio conditions, with an amplifier circuit that includes an amplifier having a selected stage among a plurality of stages, and either or both of a first stabilizing circuit implemented on an input side of the selected stage to provide stability in operation of the amplifier under a high in-band voltage standing wave ratio condition, and a second stabilizing circuit implemented on an output side of the selected stage to provide stability in operation of the amplifier under a high out-of-band voltage standing wave ratio condition.

Stability techniques in power amplifiers under high voltage standing wave ratio conditions

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.

Reconfigurable power amplifiers with controllable output capacitance

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.

Reconfigurable power amplifiers with controllable input capacitance

Reconfigurable output baluns for wideband push-pull amplifiers are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a transceiver that generates 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 that selectively amplifies 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 impedance of the output balun.

Reconfigurable output balun for wideband push-pull power amplifiers

Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology, apparatuses, and methods that relate to transceivers, receivers, and antenna structures for wireless communications are described. The various aspects include co-located millimeter wave (mmWave) and near-field communication (NFC) antennas, scalable phased array radio transceiver architecture (SPARTA), phased array distributed communication system with MIMO support and phase noise synchronization over a single coax cable, communicating RF signals over cable (RFoC) in a distributed phased array communication system, clock noise leakage reduction, IF-to-RF companion chip for backwards and forwards compatibility and modularity, on-package matching networks, 5G scalable receiver (Rx) architecture, among others.

Wireless communication technology, apparatuses, and methods

The disclosure relates to a signal combiner for a Doherty power amplifier architecture, the signal combiner including a termination circuit on an isolation port, the termination circuit being tuned to improve performance of the Doherty power amplifier. The architecture includes a carrier amplifier and a peaking amplifier. The peaking amplifier modulates the load seen by the carrier amplifier, allowing the carrier amplifier to remain in high-efficiency, saturated operation even at back-off. This load modulation can be achieved using impedance matching networks having an impedance matched to a specific frequency. The architectures include tuned or tailored signal combiners with termination circuits on isolation ports. The termination circuits are tuned or tailored for particular operating frequencies to enhance operation.

Signal combiner having a tuned termination circuit on an isolation port for a Doherty power amplifier

The disclosure relates to a wideband, tunable hybrid-based combiner for a Doherty power amplifier architecture. The architecture includes two parallel power amplifiers: a carrier amplifier and a peaking amplifier. The peaking amplifier modulates the load seen by the carrier amplifier, allowing the carrier amplifier to remain in high-efficiency, saturated operation even at back-off. This load modulation can be achieved using impedance matching networks having an impedance matched to a specific frequency. Typically, a multi-mode/multi-band power amplifier module that does not include a tunable impedance circuit as disclosed herein, several Doherty power amplifier modules (each of which uses two amplifiers) would be used to cover several bands, which may make implementation costly and/or impractical. Thus, the architectures described herein provide wideband amplification using a Doherty amplifier configuration.

Wideband tunable hybrid-based combiner for a Doherty power amplifier architecture

Doherty power amplifier combiner with tunable impedance termination circuit. A signal combiner can include a balun transformer circuit having a first coil and a second coil. The first coil can be implemented between a first port and a second port. The second coil can be implemented between a third port and a fourth port. The first port and the third port can be coupled by a first capacitor. The second port and fourth port can be coupled by a second capacitor. The first port can be configured to receive a first signal. The fourth port can be configured to receive a second signal. The second port can be configured to yield a combination of the first signal and the second signal. The signal combiner can include a termination circuit that couples the third port to a ground. The termination circuit can include a tunable impedance circuit.

Doherty power amplifier combiner with tunable impedance termination circuit

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