Controlling switching mode power supply of power amplifier

• US 20080003950A1
• Filed: 09/08/2006
• Published: 01/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Original Assignee: Nokia Corporation
• Inventors: Grigore, Vlad, Haapoja, Sami, Kangasmaa, Seppo
• Application Number:
  US11/517,269
• Publication Number:
  US 20080003950A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/73
• CPC Class Codes: H02M 1/44 Circuits or arrangements for compensating for electromagnetic interference in converters or inverters
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/0238 using supply converters
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 2200/504 the supply voltage or current being continuously controlled by a controlling signal, e.g. the controlling signal of a transistor implemented as variable resistor in a supply path for, an IC-block showed amplifier
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 3/24 of transmitter output stages
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/0475 with means for limiting noise, interference or distortion H04B1/0483 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/525 with means for reducing leakage of transmitter signal into the receiver
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 15/005 Reducing noise, e.g. humm, from the supply
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2215/065 by changing the frequency of clock or reference frequency
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

A radio frequency transceiver is provided. The transceiver comprises a receiver for receiving transmission at a first radio frequency and a transmitter for transmitting at a second radio frequency, and in the transmitter a power amplifier with a switching mode power supply. The transceiver further comprises a controller configured to vary switching frequency of the switching mode power supply on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

Claims

1. A radio frequency transceiver, comprising;

a receiver configured to receive transmission at a first radio frequency;

a transmitter configured to transmit at a second radio frequency;

a power amplifier in the transmitter with a switching mode power supply; and

a controller configured to vary switching frequency of the switching mode power supply on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

2. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to increase a switching frequency of the switching mode power supply when the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies decreases.

3. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to decrease a switching frequency of the switching mode power supply when the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies increases.

4. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to adjust a bias of the power amplifier on the basis of the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

5. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the controller is configured to adjust a power stage of the power amplifier on the basis of a power level required by a signal to be transmitted.

6. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the switching mode power supply comprises a pulse width modulator with a sawtooth generator, and the controller is configured to adjust a slope of the pulse width modulator sawtooth generator on the basis of the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

7. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the switching mode power supply comprises a clock signal, and that the controller is configured to adjust the frequency of the clock signal on the basis of the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

8. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the transceiver comprises a clock circuit providing the switching mode power supply with a clock signal, and that the controller is configured to control the frequency of the clock signal provided by the clock circuit.

9. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the transceiver comprises more than one receiver, of which at least one receiver is configured to measure at a third frequency, the controller being configured to take the third frequency into account when varying the switching frequency.

10. The transceiver of claim 1, wherein the receiver is in connection to first system and the transmitter being in connection with another system.

11. A method for controlling a switching mode power supply, comprising:

receiving, in a receiver, a transmission at a first radio frequency; and

transmitting, with a transmitter, at a second radio frequency, wherein a switching frequency of the switching mode power supply is varied on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising increasing the switching frequency of the switching mode power supply when the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies decreases.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising decreasing the switching frequency of the switching mode power supply when the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies increases.

14. The method of claim 11, further comprising adjusting a bias of the power amplifier on the basis of the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

15. The method of claim 11, further comprising adjusting a power stage of the power amplifier on the basis of a power level required by a signal to be transmitted.

16. The method of claim 11, further comprising adjusting a slope of the pulse width modulator sawtooth generator on the basis of the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

17. The method of claim 11, further comprising adjusting the frequency of the clock signal of the switching mode power supply on the basis of the frequency separation of the first and second radio frequency.

18. The method of claim 11, further comprising receiving a command to adjust the first and the second frequency and the frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

19. The method of claim 11, wherein the transmitting further comprises a transmitter having more than one receiver, of which at least one is used for measurement purposes at a third frequency and by taking the third frequency into account when varying the switching frequency.

20. A radio frequency transceiver, comprising:

receiving means for receiving transmission at a first radio frequency; and

transmitting means for transmitting at a second radio frequency;

power amplifying means, in the transmitting means, with a switching mode power supply; and

controlling means for varying switching frequency of the switching mode power supply on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

21. A radio frequency transmitter of a transceiver, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive transmissions at a first radio frequency, the transmitter being configured to transmit at a second radio frequency;

a power amplifier with a switching mode power supply; and

a controller configured to vary switching frequency of the switching mode power supply on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

22. A switching mode power supply in a radio frequency transmitter of a transceiver, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a transmission at a first radio frequency; and

a transmitter configured to transmit at a second radio frequency;

wherein a switching frequency of the switching mode power supply is adjustable on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

23. A computer program embodied on a computer readable medium, that when executed by a processor, is configured to control a switching mode power supply of a power amplifier of a transmitter in a radio frequency transceiver comprising a receiver for receiving transmission at a first radio frequency and a transmitter for transmitting at a second radio frequency, the process comprising varying switching frequency of the switching mode power supply on the basis of a frequency separation of the first and the second radio frequencies.

24. The computer program distribution medium of claim 23, the distribution medium including at least one of the following media:

a computer readable medium, a program storage medium, a record medium, a computer readable memory, a computer readable software distribution package, a computer readable signal, a computer readable telecommunications signal, and a computer readable compressed software package.