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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 13, 2010
Filed:
Mar. 30, 2006
Applicants:
Srinath Sridharan, Austin, TX (US);
Ahmed Emira, Cairo, EG;
Aria Eshraghi, Austin, TX (US);
David Welland, Ouistreham, FR;
Inventors:
Srinath Sridharan, Austin, TX (US);
Ahmed Emira, Cairo, EG;
Aria Eshraghi, Austin, TX (US);
David Welland, Ouistreham, FR;
Assignee:
ST-Ericsson SA, Geneva, CH;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01Q 11/12 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method includes controlling a mixer gain to provide a range of selected power output levels from the mixer using a first control scheme for a low portion of the range and using a second control scheme for a high portion of the range. Using the selected mixer gain, incoming baseband signals may be upconverted in the mixer to a transmission frequency and output from the mixer at the selected power output level.