EP2082478A4 - System and method for on-chip im3 reduction over a broad range of operating powers - Google Patents

System and method for on-chip im3 reduction over a broad range of operating powers

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Publication number
EP2082478A4
EP2082478A4 EP07843972A EP07843972A EP2082478A4 EP 2082478 A4 EP2082478 A4 EP 2082478A4 EP 07843972 A EP07843972 A EP 07843972A EP 07843972 A EP07843972 A EP 07843972A EP 2082478 A4 EP2082478 A4 EP 2082478A4
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Prior art keywords
chip
broad range
reduction over
operating powers
powers
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EP07843972A
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German (de)
French (fr)
Other versions
EP2082478A2 (en
Inventor
Vikram Bidare Krishnamurhty
Tanveer Kaur Khanijoun
Kyle Mark Hershberger
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VT Silicon Inc
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VT Silicon Inc
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Publication of EP2082478A2 publication Critical patent/EP2082478A2/en
Publication of EP2082478A4 publication Critical patent/EP2082478A4/en
Withdrawn legal-status Critical Current

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    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00—Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/32—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce non-linear distortion
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00—Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/26—Modifications of amplifiers to reduce influence of noise generated by amplifying elements
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F1/00—Details of amplifiers with only discharge tubes, only semiconductor devices or only unspecified devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F1/02—Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation
    • H03F1/0205—Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers
    • H03F1/0261—Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers with control of the polarisation voltage or current, e.g. gliding Class A
    • H03F1/0266—Modifications of amplifiers to raise the efficiency, e.g. gliding Class A stages, use of an auxiliary oscillation in transistor amplifiers with control of the polarisation voltage or current, e.g. gliding Class A by using a signal derived from the input signal
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/04—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements with semiconductor devices only
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/189—High frequency amplifiers, e.g. radio frequency amplifiers
    • H03F3/19—High frequency amplifiers, e.g. radio frequency amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/20—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers
    • H03F3/21—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only
    • H03F3/211—Power amplifiers, e.g. Class B amplifiers, Class C amplifiers with semiconductor devices only using a combination of several amplifiers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F3/00—Amplifiers with only discharge tubes or only semiconductor devices as amplifying elements
    • H03F3/60—Amplifiers in which coupling networks have distributed constants, e.g. with waveguide resonators
    • H03F3/602—Combinations of several amplifiers
    • H—ELECTRICITY
    • H03—ELECTRONIC CIRCUITRY
    • H03F—AMPLIFIERS
    • H03F2200/00—Indexing scheme relating to amplifiers
    • H03F2200/432—Two or more amplifiers of different type are coupled in parallel at the input or output, e.g. a class D and a linear amplifier, a class B and a class A amplifier
EP07843972A 2006-10-06 2007-10-08 System and method for on-chip im3 reduction over a broad range of operating powers Withdrawn EP2082478A4 (en)

Applications Claiming Priority (2)

Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
US85014606P 2006-10-06 2006-10-06
PCT/US2007/080699 WO2008043098A2 (en) 2006-10-06 2007-10-08 System and method for on-chip im3 reduction over a broad range of operating powers

Publications (2)

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EP2082478A2 EP2082478A2 (en) 2009-07-29
EP2082478A4 true EP2082478A4 (en) 2010-01-27

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EP07843972A Withdrawn EP2082478A4 (en) 2006-10-06 2007-10-08 System and method for on-chip im3 reduction over a broad range of operating powers

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EP (1) EP2082478A4 (en)
JP (1) JP2010506514A (en)
KR (1) KR20090084843A (en)
CN (1) CN101589547A (en)
WO (1) WO2008043098A2 (en)

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CN108400774B (en) * 2018-03-22 2020-06-02 上海唯捷创芯电子技术有限公司 Balanced radio frequency power amplifier, chip and communication terminal
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US20030179041A1 (en) * 2002-03-19 2003-09-25 The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte Method and apparatus for cancellation of third order intermodulation distortion and other nonlinearities
US20040085132A1 (en) * 2002-11-06 2004-05-06 Cree Microwave, Inc. RF transistor amplifier linearity using suppressed third order transconductance
US20040150473A1 (en) * 2003-02-05 2004-08-05 Sirenza Microdevices, Inc Distortion cancellation for RF amplifiers using complementary biasing circuitry

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US20030179041A1 (en) * 2002-03-19 2003-09-25 The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte Method and apparatus for cancellation of third order intermodulation distortion and other nonlinearities
US20040085132A1 (en) * 2002-11-06 2004-05-06 Cree Microwave, Inc. RF transistor amplifier linearity using suppressed third order transconductance
US20040150473A1 (en) * 2003-02-05 2004-08-05 Sirenza Microdevices, Inc Distortion cancellation for RF amplifiers using complementary biasing circuitry

Non-Patent Citations (1)

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Title
MARK P VAN DER HEIJDEN ET AL: "Theory and Design of an Ultra-Linear Square-Law Approximated LDMOS Power Amplifier inClass-AB Operation", IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MICROWAVE THEORY AND TECHNIQUES, IEEE SERVICE CENTER, PISCATAWAY, NJ, US, vol. 50, no. 9, 1 September 2002 (2002-09-01), XP011076697, ISSN: 0018-9480 *

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CN101589547A (en) 2009-11-25
WO2008043098A2 (en) 2008-04-10
KR20090084843A (en) 2009-08-05
EP2082478A2 (en) 2009-07-29
WO2008043098A3 (en) 2008-08-28

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