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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:
Feb. 22, 2022

Filed:

Aug. 01, 2019
Applicant:

University of Utah Research Foundation, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Inventors:

Jeffrey Walling, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Ali Azam, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Zhidong Bai, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Assignee:

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH RESEARCH FOUNDATION, Salt Lake City, UT (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/45 (2006.01); H03F 3/00 (2006.01); H03F 1/56 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H03F 3/005 (2013.01); H03F 1/565 (2013.01); H03F 3/24 (2013.01); H04B 1/0475 (2013.01); H03F 2200/331 (2013.01); H03F 2200/387 (2013.01); H03F 2200/451 (2013.01); H04B 2001/0408 (2013.01);
Abstract

Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses a hybrid switched capacitor array power amplifier (H-SCPA). The H-SCPA may have an array of storage elements divided into sub-arrays. A first sub-array may be configured to receive a delta sigma modulated (DSM) signal. A second sub-array may be configured to receive a Nyquist-rate signal. The H-SCPA may provide an output based on the received DSM and Nyquist-rate signals. The first sub-array and second sub-array may have different architectures. The DSM signal may represent the least significant bits of the signal and the Nyquist-rate signal may represent the most significant bits of the signal.


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