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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. 20, 2017

Filed:

Mar. 31, 2015
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jongrit Lerdworatawee, Santee, CA (US);

Chunlei Shi, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/158 (2006.01); H03F 1/02 (2006.01); H02M 3/155 (2006.01); H03F 3/217 (2006.01); H02M 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H02M 3/158 (2013.01); H02M 3/155 (2013.01); H03F 1/0227 (2013.01); H03F 3/2173 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0045 (2013.01); H02M 2001/0064 (2013.01); H03F 2200/432 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure includes circuits that have a switching regulator and methods of operating the circuits. The switching regulator may receive a switching signal that has a switching frequency. The circuit also includes a monitor circuit to monitor the switching frequency, and includes a reconfigurable inductance coupled to an output of the switching regulator. The monitor circuit may change the reconfigurable inductance. The circuit includes an amplifier to receive an envelope tracking signal. An output of the amplifier is coupled to the output of the switching regulator to provide a power supply voltage. The circuit may further include a switching generator circuit to produce the switching signal for the switching regulator based on an output current of the amplifier. The monitor circuit may compare a frequency of the envelope tracking signal to the switching frequency of the switching signal and accordingly change the reconfigurable inductance.


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