PREDICTIVE SELF CALIBRATED POWER CONTROL

• US 20140250309A1
• Filed: 03/01/2013
• Published: 09/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Dietze, Kai P.
• Application Number:
  US13/782,396
• Publication Number:
  US 20140250309A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 713/300
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/26 Power supply means, e.g. regulation thereof for memories G11C

Abstract

A method of controlling power in a circuit includes characterizing a power behavior of the circuit, from a circuit input to a circuit output during a manufacturing process of the circuit, wherein the characterizing may be at one or more of a wafer, chip or circuit board level, predicting the power behavior of the circuit on the basis of the characterizing, and controlling the power of signals transmitted from the output of the circuit on the basis of the predicting. An apparatus for controlling signal power in a circuit includes a transmitter to transmit an output signal, a receiver coupled to the transmitter by a loopback path, and a digital signal processor coupled to the transmitter and receiver, wherein the signal processor predicts and adjusts a power level of the output signal from the transmitter based on characterizing a loopback signal and known response characteristics of the circuit.

Claims

1. A method of controlling power in a circuit comprises:

characterizing through a characterization loop a power behavior of the circuit, from a circuit input to a circuit output during one or more of a manufacturing process of the circuit, wherein the characterizing may be at one or more of a wafer, chip or circuit board level;

predicting the power behavior of the circuit on the basis of the characterizing; and

controlling the power of signals transmitted from the output of the circuit on the basis of the predicting.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the circuits comprise one or more of a transmitter and a receiver.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising linearizing the power output using digital pre-distortion (DPD).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the circuit comprises memory-less non-linearity behavior.

5. The method of claim 4, the characterizing further comprising measuring a signal amplitude output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-AM).

6. The method of claim 4, the characterizing further comprising measuring a signal phase output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-PM).

7. An apparatus for controlling signal power in a circuit, comprising:

a transmitter to transmit an output signal;

a receiver coupled to the transmitter by a loopback path; and

a digital signal processor coupled to the transmitter and receiver, wherein the signal processor predicts and adjusts a power level of the output signal from the transmitter based on characterizing a loopback signal and known response characteristics of the circuit.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, further comprising:

a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) between the digital signal processor and the transmitter; and

an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) between the receiver and the digital signal processor.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the known response characteristics are determined using built in self-test circuitry.

10. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the known response characteristics are determined by characterization of the circuit as part of the manufacturing process.

11. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the power level is linearized based on digital pre-distortion (DPD) by the digital signal processor.

12. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the circuit comprises memory-less non-linear behavior.

13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the characterizing further comprises measuring a signal amplitude output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-AM).

14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the characterizing further comprises measuring a phase amplitude output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-PM).

15. An apparatus for controlling power in a circuit, comprising:

means for transmitting an output signal;

means for receiving a loopback signal from the transmitting means;

means for predicting and adjusting a power level of the output signal from the transmitter means based on characterizing a loopback signal and known response characteristics of the circuit.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the means for predicting and adjusting the power level is a digital processing means.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising:

means to convert a digital signal to an analog signal, the conversion means arranged between the digital processing means and the transmitting means; and

means to convert an analog signal to a digital signal, the conversion means arranged between the receiving means and the digital processing means.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, further comprising built in self test means to determine the known response characteristics of the circuit.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the power level is linearized based on digital pre-distortion (DPD) by the digital processing means.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the circuit comprises memory-less non-linear behavior.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the characterizing further comprises measuring a signal amplitude output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-AM).

22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the characterizing further comprises measuring a phase amplitude output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-PM).

23. A non-transitory computer readable media containing instructions which when executed by a processor cause the processor to perform the following steps:

characterizing a power behavior of the circuit, from a circuit input to a circuit output during a manufacturing process of the circuit;

predicting the power behavior of the circuit on the basis of the characterizing; and

controlling the power of signals transmitted from the output of the circuit on the basis of the predicting.

24. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 23, wherein the circuits comprise one or more of a transmitter and a receiver.

25. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 23, the method further comprising linearizing the power output using digital pre-distortion (DPD).

26. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 24, wherein the circuit comprises memory-less non-linearity behavior.

27. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 26, the method further comprising measuring a signal amplitude output vs. a signal amplitude input (AM-AM).

28. The non-transitory computer readable media of claim 26, the method further comprising measuring a signal phase output vs. a signal amplitude in (AM-PM).