Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Reconfigurable load modulation amplifier
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Application No.: US15278450Application Date: 2016-09-28
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Publication No.: US09887671B2Publication Date: 2018-02-06
- Inventor: Kevin Wesley Kobayashi , Hamhee Jeon
- Applicant: Qorvo US, Inc
- Applicant Address: US NC Greensboro
- Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Qorvo US, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US NC Greensboro
- Agency: Withrow & Terranova, P.L.L.C.
- Main IPC: H03F1/02
- IPC: H03F1/02 ; H03F1/32 ; H03F1/56 ; H03F3/19 ; H03F3/193

Abstract:
A reconfigurable load modulation amplifier having a carrier amplifier and a peak amplifier that are coupled in parallel is disclosed. The peak amplifier provides additional power amplification when the carrier amplifier is driven into saturation. A quadrature coupler coupled between the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier is configured to combine power from both the carrier amplifier and the peak amplifier for output through an output load terminal. The reconfigurable load modulation amplifier further includes control circuitry coupled to an isolation port of the quadrature coupler and configured to provide adjustable impedance at the isolation port of the quadrature coupler. As such, impedance at the isolation port of the quadrature coupler is tunable such that at least a carrier or peak amplifier is presented with a quadrature coupler load impedance that ranges from around about half an output load termination impedance to around about twice the output load termination impedance.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170019072A1 RECONFIGURABLE LOAD MODULATION AMPLIFIER Public/Granted day:2017-01-19
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