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Date of Patent:
Dec. 24, 2019

Filed:

Apr. 26, 2019
Applicant:

Qorvo Us, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Truong Ngo, Queen Creek, AZ (US);

Jean-Frederic Chiron, Tournefeuille, FR;

Nadim Khlat, Cugnaux, FR;

William David Southcombe, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

Qorvo US, Inc., Greensboro, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/18 (2006.01); G06F 13/42 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/18 (2013.01); G06F 13/4291 (2013.01);
Abstract

A radio frequency front-end (RFFE) slave circuit and related apparatus are provided. The RFFE slave circuit may be coupled to a number of RFFE masters over an RFFE bus. The RFFE slave circuit may be configured by the RFFE masters for accessing, either concurrently or alternately, a number of sharable circuits in an envelope tracking (ET) circuit. The RFFE slave circuit may include common configuration circuitry configured to set a common configuration parameter(s) for a concurrently sharable circuit(s) in the ET circuit. The RFFE slave circuit may include private configuration circuitry configured to set a private configuration parameter(s) for an alternately sharable circuit(s) in the ET circuit. By employing the RFFE slave circuit to set the common and/or private configuration parameter(s) for the ET circuit, it may be possible to reduce processing delays in the RFFE bus, thus helping to improve efficiency of the ET circuit and/or the power amplifier(s).


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