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Adaptive power leveling of an RF transceiver utilizing information stored in non-volatile memory

US6009119A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMar 25, 1997
Grant dateDec 28, 1999
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Expiry dateMar 25, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04B2001/0433
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A radio frequency (RF) transceiver adaptively maintains power output level linearity across a broad spectrum of transmitting frequencies. The RF transceiver comprises a frequency synthesizer adapted to modulate an information signal across a plurality of distinct channels and an amplifier adapted to amplify the modulated information signal to a desired power level for transmission as an RF signal. The transceiver includes a table of offset values having individual entries corresponding to each of the distinct channels. A portion of the amplified and modulated information signal is sampled to provide binary values corresponding to instantaneous power levels of the transceiver. The offset values are calculated by comparing the sampled binary values to optimal binary values. Thereafter, an amount of amplification provided by the amplifier for an associated one of the channels is controlled in accordance with a corresponding one of the offset values from the table.

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