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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jan. 18, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 13, 2020
Applicant:

Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (Publ), Stockholm, SE;

Inventors:

Christian Elgaard, Lund, SE;

Stefan Andersson, Flyinge, SE;

Andreas Axholt, Lund, SE;

Imad ud Din, Flyinge, SE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/32 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01); H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H03F 3/195 (2006.01); H03F 3/213 (2006.01); H03F 1/34 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 1/3205 (2013.01); H03F 1/0233 (2013.01); H03F 1/0266 (2013.01); H03F 1/0272 (2013.01); H03F 1/3211 (2013.01); H03F 1/3223 (2013.01); H03F 1/342 (2013.01); H03F 3/195 (2013.01); H03F 3/213 (2013.01); H03F 3/245 (2013.01); H03F 3/45179 (2013.01); H04B 1/04 (2013.01); H03F 2200/09 (2013.01); H03F 2200/105 (2013.01); H03F 2200/135 (2013.01); H03F 2200/321 (2013.01); H03F 2200/451 (2013.01); H03F 2200/541 (2013.01); H03F 2200/555 (2013.01); H03F 2200/75 (2013.01); H03F 2203/45071 (2013.01); H04B 2001/045 (2013.01); H04B 2001/0416 (2013.01);
Abstract

A power amplifier, for a transmitter circuit is disclosed, which comprises at least one field-effect transistor having a gate terminal and a bulk terminal. The at least one field-effect transistor is configured to receive an input voltage at the gate terminal and a dynamic bias voltage at the bulk terminal. The power amplifier comprises a bias-voltage generation circuit configured to generate the dynamic bias voltage as a nonlinear function of an envelope of input signal. The input voltage is a linear function of the input signal. The bias-voltage generation circuit comprises a rectifier circuit configured to generate a rectified input voltage and an amplifier circuit, operatively connected to the rectifier circuit, configured to generate the dynamic bias voltage based on the rectified input voltage. The amplifier circuit is a variable-gain amplifier circuit and the power amplifier comprises a control circuit configured to tune the gain of the amplifier circuit.


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