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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:
Jun. 06, 2023

Filed:

Mar. 22, 2022
Applicant:

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bang Li Liang, Ottawa, CA;

Thomas Obkircher, Santa Ana, CA (US);

Guillaume Alexandre Blin, Carlisle, MA (US);

Assignee:

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., Irvine, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/40 (2015.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/40 (2013.01); H03F 1/0216 (2013.01); H03F 3/245 (2013.01); H03F 2200/451 (2013.01);
Abstract

Cascode power amplifier bias circuits suitable for operating across multiple power supply domains are provided. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier system includes a cascode power amplifier and a multi-domain bias circuit that generates at least a first cascode bias voltage for the cascode power amplifier. The multi-domain bias circuit includes a coarse regulator that generates a regulated voltage based on a power supply voltage that is operable with multiple voltage levels associated with different power supply domains, a bandgap reference circuit that is powered by the regulated voltage and outputs a bandgap reference voltage, a bias voltage generator that generates multiple selectable bias voltages based on the bandgap reference voltage, and a bias voltage selector that chooses the first cascode bias voltage from amongst the selectable bias voltages.


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