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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
May. 17, 2011
Yalcin Alper Eken, Istabul, TR;
Peter Katzin, Arlington, MA (US);
Yalcin Alper Eken, Istabul, TR;
Peter Katzin, Arlington, MA (US);
Hittite Microwave Corporation, Chelmsford, MA (US);
Abstract
An RF detector configured to provide two outputs, one being a function of the true RMS power level of an RF input signal, and the other being a function of the instantaneous/peak power of the RF input signal, normalized to the average power level. The RF detector includes a variable gain detection subsystem including a single detector or detector array that provides a representation of the power level of the RF input signal. The detector or detector array is common to both the RMS power detection channel and the instantaneous/peak power detection channel of the RF detector. A method of RF detection includes providing representations of the RF input signal at different gain levels, selecting one or more of the representations, and averaging the selected signals. The gain levels of the selected representations is adjusted to provide information about the average power level of the RF input signal.