Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Harmonics suppression circuit for a switch-mode power amplifier
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Application No.: US15055733Application Date: 2016-02-29
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Publication No.: US09641141B1Publication Date: 2017-05-02
- Inventor: Shiyuan Zheng , Zhiwei Wu
- Applicant: Hong Kong Applied Science & Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Applicant Address: HK Hong Kong
- Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Current Assignee: Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute Company Limited
- Current Assignee Address: HK Hong Kong
- Agency: gPatent LLC
- Agent Stuart T. Auvinen
- Main IPC: H03F3/217
- IPC: H03F3/217 ; H03F1/02 ; H03F3/193

Abstract:
Even harmonics are suppressed by a harmonics-reducing bias generator that drives bias voltages to cascode control transistors in series with driver transistors in a power amplifier. A first bias voltage is generated by mirroring pull-up currents in the power amplifier. A p-channel source transistor and a p-channel cascode current-mirror transistor also mirror the power amplifier pull-up current to a midpoint node. An n-channel sink transistor and an n-channel cascode current-mirror transistor mirror the pull-down current in the power amplifier to the midpoint node. An op amp compares the midpoint node to VDD/2, and drives the gate of a p-channel feedback transistor. Current from the p-channel feedback transistor flows through an n-channel cascode current-mirror transistor that generates a second bias voltage. The second bias voltage is adjusted until the midpoint node reaches VDD/2, causing the pull-up and pull-down currents in the power amplifier to better match, reducing even harmonics.
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