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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2019
Psemi Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Jonathan James Klaren, San Diego, CA (US);
pSemi Corporation, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
A variable level power clamping circuit that may be used for the bypass path of an RF receiver having a low-noise amplifier (LNA). Impedance transform circuitry is used to transform the impedance of a signal path to a higher or lower impedance at a clamping circuit, causing the voltage at the clamping circuit to be, respectively, higher (thus clamping at a lower power level) or lower (thus clamping at a higher power level), and then transform the impedance after the clamping circuit to another value, such as to the impedance of the signal path. In a variant embodiment, the clamping circuit and an impedance matching element coupled to an LNA amplification path are re-purposed by selectively connecting those circuit elements to the LNA bypass path through a suitable impedance transform element when in a bypass mode.