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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2007
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2005
Leroy A. Plymale, Jr., North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Joseph L. Clark, Haltom City, TX (US);
Henry H. Nguyen, Fort Worth, TX (US);
John S. Ruppel, Keller, TX (US);
Thomas L. Sears, Hurst, TX (US);
Ronald Porco, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Armando Vera Jimenez, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Leroy A. Plymale, Jr., North Richland Hills, TX (US);
Joseph L. Clark, Haltom City, TX (US);
Henry H. Nguyen, Fort Worth, TX (US);
John S. Ruppel, Keller, TX (US);
Thomas L. Sears, Hurst, TX (US);
Ronald Porco, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Armando Vera Jimenez, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Motorola, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
In the present technique for power management of a power amplifier, an amplifier bank from a plurality of amplifier banks in a power amplifier that has been switched off for a longest period of time is assessed () to provide a lowest amplifier bank. With this lowest amplifier bank, an up-threshold that is associated to the lowest amplifier bank is assessed (), followed by another assessment () of a current power output of the power amplifier. It is next determined () whether the current power output corresponds at least in a predetermined way to the up-threshold, and if so, the lowest amplifier bank is accordingly switched on ().