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Power control

US8947162B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 25, 2013
Grant dateFeb 3, 2015
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Expiry dateOct 25, 2033

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH03F2200/451
  • WIPO fieldBasic communication processes
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An amplification stage comprising: an input scaling block for scaling an input signal based on an input scaling factor to generate a scaled version of the input signal; a power amplifier for receiving the scaled version of the input signal and for generating an amplified version of said signal; an envelope detector for generating a signal representing the envelope of the input signal; an envelope scaling block for scaling the envelope signal based on an envelope scaling factor to generate a scaled version of the envelope signal; a non-linear mapping block for generating a voltage representative of the supply voltage based on the scaled envelope signal; a modulator for generating a power supply voltage for the amplifier based on the voltage generated by the non-linear mapping block; and a power control block for maintaining a linear relationship between the envelope scaling factor and the input scaling factor.

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