Invention Grant
US08829990B2 Attenuating non-linear noise in an amplifier with alternating DC-offset correction
有权
在具有交流DC偏移校正的放大器中衰减非线性噪声
- Patent Title: Attenuating non-linear noise in an amplifier with alternating DC-offset correction
- Patent Title (中): 在具有交流DC偏移校正的放大器中衰减非线性噪声
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Application No.: US13595141Application Date: 2012-08-27
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Publication No.: US08829990B2Publication Date: 2014-09-09
- Inventor: Douglas E. Heineman , Mark A. Alexander
- Applicant: Douglas E. Heineman , Mark A. Alexander
- Agency: Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
- Agent Jeffrey C. Hood
- Main IPC: H03F3/38
- IPC: H03F3/38 ; H03F3/217 ; H03F3/189 ; H03F1/26 ; H03K5/003

Abstract:
An amplifier may include two or more pulse-width modulators controlling respective sets of switches to produce an amplified version of a source signal. A positive DC-offset based on the source signal may be applied to the pulse-width modulator controlling one respective set of switches, and an equal value negative DC-offset may be applied to the pulse-width modulator controlling the other respective set of switches, to provide an effective offset between the respective points in time of the rising/falling edges of the different pulse-width modulated control signals. The addition of alternating positive and negative DC-offset values doesn't affect the output load, and doesn't degrade the signal. The DC-offsets may be added at a frequency selected to be beyond the signal baseband, and the value of the small input signal level may be determined using an RMS level comparator or similar measurement technique.
Public/Granted literature
- US20130088294A1 Attenuating Non-Linear Noise in An Amplifier with Alternating DC -offset Correction Public/Granted day:2013-04-11
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