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7627294 Radio transmitter front-end with amplitude and phase correction and methods for use therewith  
A radio transmitter front-end for use in a voice data and RF integrated circuit (IC) includes a phase correction module that produces a phase adjusted signal in response to a phase modulated signal...
7627293 Strategic predistortion function selection  
A corrective predistortion function is applied to a signal to compensate for or cancel out distortion that is introduced by a component that processes the signal. A disclosed example includes...
7620373 Apparatus and method for calibration of gain and/or phase imbalance and/or DC offset in a communication system  
A radio frequency transceiver for off-line transmit and receive calibrations includes: a transmit pre-distortion module configured to receive a transmit calibration signal during a transmit...
7613250 Distortion compensation apparatus  
Provided is a distortion compensation apparatus which can correspond to the number of carriers adaptively. The apparatus includes a distortion compensation processing circuit multiplying an input...
7610058 Reverse loop protocol  
It is possible to operate a wireless system, such as a CDMA system, in a more efficient manner by employing a statistical approach for setting power targets for reverse loop transmission. Unlike...
7610028 Method and system for reduction of peak-to-average power ratio of transmission signals comprising overlapping waveforms  
The present invention provides a method and system for reducing the peak to average power ratio (PAP) of a signal with low computational complexity. According to one embodiment, the present...
7603089 Methods and apparatus for conditioning low-magnitude events in communications signals  
Methods and apparatus for conditioning low-magnitude events in electrical signals. According to an exemplary method, a low-magnitude event occurring in a signal trajectory of a received electrical...
7599669 Transmitting arrangement, transreceiver with a transmitting arrangement and method for signal processing  
A transmitting arrangement includes a first signal input for supplying a frequency modulation signal, a second signal input for supplying an amplitude modulation signal, a phase-locked loop and an...
7599420 System and method for distributed input distributed output wireless communications  
A system and method are described for compensating for frequency and phase offsets in a multiple antenna system (MAS) with multi-user (MU) transmissions (“MU-MAS”). For example, a method...
7593699 Distortion/efficiency adaptation in a variable-data-rate radio transmitter  
The present invention generally speaking, provides for adaptive control of an RF power amplifier in view of a desired data rate. For low data rates, the RF amplifier ( 121 ) is controlled so as to...
7590395 Power management scheme for software-defined radios  
A power management system is provided for a software-defined radio. The power management system includes: an antenna; a regulated power supply; a power amplifier; and a digital signal processor. A...
7590190 System and method for forward path gain control in a digital predistortion linearized transmitter  
A system and method for controlling the gain in the forward signal path of a digital predistortion linearizer is disclosed. The loop gain of the predistortion system is driven to unity, where a...
7586995 Peak windowing for crest factor reduction  
In order to reduce the crest factor of a signal for power amplification, a windowing function is applied. The windowing function that is applied is a triangular windowing function. The use of this...
7580686 Adaptive predistortion method and arrangement  
An adaptive predistortion arrangement includes means ( 26, 40, 42, 44, 46 ) for up-converting a baseband signal (S 1 ) into an intermediate frequency signal (S 12 ) having frequency aliazing and...
7577211 Digital predistortion system and method for linearizing an RF power amplifier with nonlinear gain characteristics and memory effects  
A system and method of digitally predistorting a transmitter that has a digital input, up-converter, and a RF amplifier is disclosed. A digital predistorter preferably employs three paths for the...
7574182 Mobile communications terminal having driving voltage control apparatus and method thereof  
A mobile communication terminal including a power amplifier configured to amplify a power of a received signal and wirelessly transmit the amplified signal through an antenna, a high power detector...
7573948 Radio transmitter incorporating digital modulator and circuitry to accommodate baseband processor with analog interface  
A radio frequency (RF) transmitter includes a digital radio processor and a baseband processor. A complex analog-to-digital converter (ADC) within the radio processor provides an analog interface...
7573410 Gain step calibration in a mobile cellular transmitter  
A technique to utilize digital gain control to fine adjust gain for one or more analog gain steps of an analog circuit. A gain step calibration procedure is utilized to set the digital gain within...
7570932 Dual mode quadrature radio frequency power amplifier  
The present invention is a dual mode quadrature RF power amplifier system that is efficient and meets linearity requirements in both modes of operation. In a high power mode of operation, the power...
7570931 RF transmitter with variably biased RF power amplifier and method therefor  
An RF transmitter ( 30 ) includes an RF power amplifier ( 32 ) for which the power input bias voltage ( 40 ) and signal input bias voltage ( 80 ) are controlled within feedback loops. A peak...
7570928 System and method for low delay corrective feedback power amplifier control  
A system for controlling the power output of a power amplifier includes a power amplifier through which a transmit signal having an amplitude-modulated (AM) component and a phase-modulated (PM)...
7570710 In-phase and quadrature-phase signal amplitude and phase calibration  
In-phase (I) and quadrature-phase (Q) signals are corrected for both amplitude and phase imbalances by passing the I and Q signals successively through a first amplitude correction stage, a...
7565116 High frequency module  
A high frequency module comprises a layered substrate. Inside the layered substrate, a reception diplexer for processing reception signals and a transmission diplexer for processing transmission...
7558541 Amplifier gain and phase stabilizer  
Methods and apparatus are provided for stabilizing the phase and gain of an amplifier in a power pooling arrangement. A pilot signal combining a reference carrier frequency with a reference...
7558539 Power control feedback loop for adjusting a magnitude of an output signal  
A circuit for adjusting a magnitude of a transmit signal includes a transmitter ( 105 ), providing a transmit signal ( 107 ). It also includes a transmitter amplifier ( 109 ), receiving the...
7555276 Devices, methods, and computer program products for controlling power transfer to an antenna in a wireless mobile terminal  
A wireless mobile terminal includes an antenna, a power amplifier coupled to the antenna, a power detector coupled to an output of the power amplifier, a phase shifter coupled between the output of...
7555270 Wide dynamic range power detection in a communication system  
Power detection system and method provide for a wide dynamic range power detection. The system may incorporate a coupler to sample a transmitted or received power. Such sampled power is then...
7551905 Distortion compensation apparatus  
A distortion compensation apparatus of the present invention is used in a transmitter that produces and outputs a second signal from a first signal. This apparatus comprises a delay unit for...
7551687 Distortion compensating apparatus  
A distortion compensating apparatus for correcting the size of a distortion compensation coefficient in such a manner that a transmit signal that has undergone distortion compensation will not...
7548591 Quadrature modulator and calibration method  
A quadrature modulator and a method of calibrating same by applying a first test tone signal to an in-phase modulation branch input of the modulator and a ninety degree phase-shifted version of the...
7546098 Control system with selective open-loop operation  
A control system may be selectively operated in open loop mode, for example, during data bursts. In a power control system, the transmitted power may be selectively held at a constant level, for...
7542775 Control device and radio control method  
A controller equipment includes a measuring unit for measuring channel qualities of a control channel and a user channel separated from a received signal, an updating unit for updating target...
7542738 Method and apparatus for measuring and compensating for power amplifier distortion and non-linearity  
A power amplification system includes functionality for measuring and compensating for distortion and non-linearity in a power amplifier (PA). The compensation process may be performed repeatedly...
7539466 Amplifier with varying supply voltage and input attenuation based upon supply voltage  
A radio frequency amplifier module ( 500 ) has a voltage monitor ( 546 ) that monitors an input supply voltage of an input power supply ( 534 ) and an adjustable power supply ( 512 ) that accepts...
7538632 Method and apparatus for controlling adaptive circuits  
A feed-forward amplifier having a signal cancellation loop including a cancellation node that includes a gain controller and a phase controller. Each controller provides a discrete tap steering...
7536197 Apparatus and method of loop and rate dependent power cutback  
Methods for reducing power required for transmitting a signal from a first transceiver to a second transceiver are described. The methods comprise the steps of estimating an excess amount of power...
7535311 Direct wideband modulation of a frequency synthesizer  
A frequency synthesizer modulates a signal by directly modulating a signal input to a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) associated with the frequency synthesizer. The modulation signal has a...
7535299 High-frequency amplification circuit  
A resonance circuit comprising, for example, an inductor and a plurality of capacitors is provided as a load of a transistor. The capacitors are changed over by a switch. As the capacitors are...
7529526 Apparatus and method for detecting radio frequency transmission power levels  
An apparatus and method for detecting radio frequency transmit power levels produced by a power amplifier of a wireless device is described. In one exemplary apparatus implementation, the apparatus...
7529524 Adaptive power amplifier linearization in time division duplex communication systems  
In an aspect of the invention, a method is performed in a transceiver for adaptive power amplifier linearization in time division duplex communication systems. The method comprises, in response to...
7526308 Adaptive control physical carrier sense parameters in wireless networks  
Apparatuses and methods for determining and applying receiving sensitivity threshold and/or energy detection threshold values for one or more nodes of a wireless network cell are described herein.
7526255 Method and system for coordinating radio resources in unlicensed frequency bands  
A method and system is provided for coordinating radio resources in shared or unlicensed frequency bands. Specifically, a set of operating parameters and a receiver-transmitter feedback mechanism...
7522892 Power amplifier with serial interface and associated methods  
In a power amplifier, a serial bus interface is provided for sending and receiving information to other devices, such as a baseband controller. The power amplifier includes several control pins...
7522672 Digital branch calibrator for an RF transmitter  
The present invention provides a digital (computational) branch calibrator which uses a feedback signal sensed from an RF transmit signal path following the combining stage of LINC circuitry of a...
7519337 Transmitter and mobile communication terminal using the same  
A transmitter employing variable gain amplifiers and operating with both constant and nonconstant envelope modulation systems is contrived to suppress variation in the transmitting power when...
7512387 Method and control system for controlling the output power of an RF amplifier system  
A system for controlling a power supplied to a load from a radio frequency amplifier system includes a radio frequency signal generator adapted for generating a radio frequency signal, an amplifier...
7505742 Battery life extending technique for mobile wireless applications using bias level control  
An operating voltage applied to a transmitter's power amplifier in a mobile wireless transceiver is dynamically controlled so as to improve the efficiency of the transmitter at all output power...
7502600 Dynamic bias for RF power amplifiers  
A method for wireless communication that dynamically adjusts RF amplifier operating bias for the subscriber unit's transmitter in response to a power control signal. The invention provides...
7502594 Power regulation feedback to optimize robustness of wireless transmissions  
A wireless communication system with power regulation feedback for improving the robustness of wireless communication transmissions between a receiver and an active emitter irrespective of the...
7499680 Translational loop transmitter architecture employing channel power ratio measurements for modulation accuracy calibration  
A Radio Frequency RF transmitter includes a translational loop architecture that supports non-constant envelope modulation types and includes by adjusting the envelope of the translational loop at...