Microwave transmitter and the method for increasing envelope bandwidth
First Claim
1. A transmitter, comprising:
- an RF power amplifier, having a power supply terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal;
a first modulator, coupled to the power supply terminal of said RF power amplifier, said first modulator using the digital delta-sigma modulation technique to generate an envelope signal to supply to said power supply terminal; and
a second modulator, coupled to the input terminal of said RF power amplifier, said second modulator using the pre-distortion technique to process and generate an IQ-modulated carrier to supply to said input terminal.
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Abstract
The microwave transmitter of the present invention can perform two-terminal dynamic modulation with respect to the voltage supply terminal and the RF input terminal of a RF power amplifier. The microwave transmitter of the present invention comprises a first modulator and a second modulator. The first modulator uses the baseband digital delta-sigma modulation technique to process the envelope signal and outputs this signal to the voltage supply terminal of the RF power amplifier as a supply voltage. The second modulator uses the baseband digital pre-distortion technique to process the IQ-modulated carrier and outputs this signal to the RF input terminal of the RF power amplifier as a RF input signal. Thereby, the RF power amplifier can highly efficiently reconstruct the power-amplified RF modulated carrier without distortion at the RF output terminal. In addition, the baseband digital processing techniques used in the two modulators make the microwave transmitter of the present invention suitable for multi-mode operation.
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53 Claims
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1. A transmitter, comprising:
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an RF power amplifier, having a power supply terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal;
a first modulator, coupled to the power supply terminal of said RF power amplifier, said first modulator using the digital delta-sigma modulation technique to generate an envelope signal to supply to said power supply terminal; and
a second modulator, coupled to the input terminal of said RF power amplifier, said second modulator using the pre-distortion technique to process and generate an IQ-modulated carrier to supply to said input terminal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A modulation method for an RF power amplifier, applying to a transmitter, the modulation method for an RF power amplifier comprising:
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generating an envelope signal with the digital delta-sigma modulation technique, to modulate the power supply terminal of said RF power amplifier; and
processing and generating an IQ-modulated carrier with pre-distortion technique, to modulate the input terminal of said RF power amplifier. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A transmitter, comprising:
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a first modulator, receiving the envelope signal for the desired modulated signal and modulating it to be a two-stage signal, to generate a low-frequency envelope signal for the desired modulated signal;
a second modulator, receiving the desired modulated signal and processing it with pre-distortion, to generate a phase-modulated carrier that is characterized by a time-varying envelope; and
an RF power amplifier, receiving the low-frequency envelope signal for the desired modulated signal as the voltage supply for the RF power amplifier, and receiving the phase-modulated carrier that is characterized by a time-varying envelope as an RF input signal for the RF power amplifier, to generate an amplified RF modulated signal. - View Dependent Claims (26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31)
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32. A baseband processor, used in a transmitter, the baseband processor comprising:
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an envelope generator, for generating the corresponding digital envelope signal of the desired modulated signal;
a delta-sigma modulator, for receiving the digital envelope signal and modulating it to be a two-stage signal;
a switched amplifier for amplifying the two-stage signal;
a low-pass filter, for receiving the amplified two-stage signal and reducing it to an amplified analog envelope signal; and
a pre-distorter, for compensating the nonlinear relation between the input and output signals of the microwave transmitter, thereby improving the parameters such as the modulation accuracy and the linearity. - View Dependent Claims (33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A wireless transceiver chip, having a baseband processor, an RF processor and an RF power amplifier, the baseband processor comprising:
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an envelope generator, for generating the corresponding digital envelope signal of the desired modulated signal;
a delta-sigma modulator, for receiving the digital envelope signal and modulating it to be a two-stage signal;
a switched amplifier for amplifying the two-stage signal;
a low-pass filter, for receiving the amplified two-stage signal and reducing it to an amplified analog envelope signal, the analog envelope signal supplied to said RF power amplifier; and
a pre-distorter, for compensating the nonlinear relation between the input and output signals of the microwave transmitter. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48)
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49. A transmitter, comprising:
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an RF power amplifier, having a power supply terminal, an input terminal and an output terminal; and
a first modulator, coupled to the power supply terminal of said RF power amplifier and controlling the output power of the RF power amplifier, the first modulator comprising;
an envelope generator, for receiving an IQ signal to generate a digital envelope signal;
a delta-sigma modulator, for receiving the digital envelope signal and modulating it to be an at least two-stage signal; and
an at least one bit control current source, for converting the at least two-stage signal to a controlled current, the controlled current passing a low-pass filter to be the current supply for the RF power amplifier. - View Dependent Claims (50, 51, 52, 53)
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