Power detector with wide dynamic range
US11385267B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Feb 14, 2019 |
| Grant date | Jul 12, 2022 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Sep 6, 2040 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH03F2203/45594
- WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
A power detector with wide dynamic range. The power detector includes a linear detector, followed by a voltage-to-current-to-voltage converter, which is then followed by an amplification stage. The current-to-voltage conversion in the converter is performed logarithmically. The power detector generates a desired linear-in-dB response at the output. In this power detector, the distribution of gain along the signal path is optimized in order to preserve linearity, and to minimize the impact of offset voltage inherently present in electronic blocks, which would corrupt the output voltage. Further, the topologies in the sub-blocks are designed to provide wide dynamic range, and to mitigate error sources. Moreover, the temperature sensitivity is designed out by either minimizing temperature variation of an individual block such as the v-i-v detector, or using two sub-blocks in tandem to provide overall temperature compensation. In one aspect, active resistors are used in order to compensate for temperature variations.
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