Power Supply Compensation
First Claim
1. An amplifier comprising amplification means (AM) comprising an input and an output, said amplification means (AM) comprising a switching output stage delivering at least one output signal (OUS) via said output, said amplification means being fed by power supply means (PSM) said amplifier further comprising compensation means (CM) providing a compensation signal (CS) derived from the power supply voltage (PSV) of the power supply means (PSM), said compensation signal (CS) comprising a substantially inverse representation of said power supply voltage (PSV) and said compensation signal (CS) being fed to said amplification means (AM).
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Abstract
The invention relates to an amplifier comprising amplification means (AM) comprising an input and an output, said amplification means (AM) comprising a switching output stage delivering at least one output signal (OUS) via said output, said amplification means being fed by power supply means (PSM) said amplifier further comprising compensation means (CM) providing a compensation signal (CS) derived from the power supply voltage (PSV) of the power supply means (PSM), said compensation signal (CS) comprising a substantially inverse representation of said power supply voltage (PSV) and said compensation signal (CS) being fed to said amplification means (AM). According to the invention, an effective error compensation of the output switching stage may in practice be implemented by establishment of a compensation, which on a run-time basis is based on the voltage of the power supply currently applied in the output switching stage.
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58 Claims
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1. An amplifier comprising amplification means (AM) comprising an input and an output,
said amplification means (AM) comprising a switching output stage delivering at least one output signal (OUS) via said output, said amplification means being fed by power supply means (PSM) said amplifier further comprising compensation means (CM) providing a compensation signal (CS) derived from the power supply voltage (PSV) of the power supply means (PSM), said compensation signal (CS) comprising a substantially inverse representation of said power supply voltage (PSV) and said compensation signal (CS) being fed to said amplification means (AM).
- 10. An amplifier according to claim 10, wherein said forward path further comprises a time quantizer (QM) converting said pulse width modulated signal, preferably two level, into a time discrete signal fed to the output (PWCS) of said forward path.
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44. An amplifier according to claim to 1, wherein said amplification means (AM) comprises two, five, six, seven or eight channel amplification means (AM1, AM2, . . . AM6).
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49. Method for compensating errors of a power signal (PS) comprising a power supply voltage (PSV), comprising
performing multiplicatively power supply voltage dependent signal processing on an input utility signal (IUS) by means of amplification means (AM), establishing a compensation signal (CS) comprising a representation of the ratio between a desired voltage (DV) and said power supply voltage (PSV), and applying said compensation signal (CS) to said input utility signal (IUS) by means of multiplication.
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