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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:
Jan. 16, 2018

Filed:

Oct. 16, 2012
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Amin Jahanian, Irvine, CA (US);

Faramarz Sabouri, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 21/06 (2006.01); G01R 21/133 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H04B 17/10 (2015.01); H04B 17/13 (2015.01); H03F 1/56 (2006.01); H03F 3/24 (2006.01); H04W 52/52 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/0458 (2013.01); H03F 1/56 (2013.01); H03F 3/24 (2013.01); H04B 17/104 (2015.01); H04B 17/13 (2015.01); H04B 2001/0416 (2013.01); H04W 52/52 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for calculating a real power delivered to a transmit load of a transceiver. In an aspect, two distinct voltages are sampled from a matching network coupling the transmit load to an amplifier output. The voltages are coupled by configurable coupling elements to the down-conversion mixers of the transceiver, and are subsequently converted to digital form for processing by a baseband processor. The baseband processor may calculate a coefficient relating the calculated real power to an actual power delivered to the load. The coefficient may be stored and subsequently applied to a transmit element during normal signal transmission by the transceiver. Note the coupling elements may be configured to decouple the sampled voltages from the down-conversion mixers during normal signal reception by the transceiver, thus avoiding unnecessary loading on the receive signal path.


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