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- Patent Title: Switched capacitor radio frequency digital power amplifier and radio frequency digital-to-analog converter
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Application No.: US16650882Application Date: 2017-12-29
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Publication No.: US11290065B2Publication Date: 2022-03-29
- Inventor: Ali Azam , Ashoke Ravi , Bassam Khamaisi , Ofir Degani
- Applicant: Intel IP Corporation
- Applicant Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
- Current Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Santa Clara
- Agency: 2SPL Patent Attorneys PartG mbB
- Agent Yong Beom Hwang
- International Application: PCT/US2017/068853 WO 20171229
- International Announcement: WO2019/132948 WO 20190704
- Main IPC: H03F1/02
- IPC: H03F1/02 ; H03F3/00 ; H03F3/19 ; H03F3/217 ; H03M1/08

Abstract:
A switched capacitor digital power amplifier (DPA) or a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. The DPA/DAC includes a plurality of switched capacitor cells connected in parallel. Each switched capacitor cell includes a capacitor and a switch. The switch selectively drives the capacitor in response to an input digital codeword. The switched capacitor cells are divided into sub-arrays and a series capacitor is inserted in series between two adjacent sub-arrays of switched capacitor cells. All the sub-arrays of switched capacitor cells may be in a unary-coded structure. Alternatively, at least one of the sub-arrays may be in a C-2C structure and at least one another sub-array may be in a unary-coded structure. The switch in the switched capacitor cells is driven by a local oscillator signal, and a phase correction buffer may be added for adjusting a delay of the local oscillator signal supplied to sub-arrays of switched capacitor cells.
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