Apparatus, methods and articles of manufacture for control in an electromagnetic processor

• US 6,859,098 B2
• Filed: 01/17/2003
• Issued: 02/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 01/17/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: North South Holdings Incorporated (Spherix Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: M/A Com, Inc. (MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Husseini, Radwan M. R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Mottola, Steven J.
• Application Number:
  US10/348,542
• Publication Number:
  US 20040140851A1
• Time in Patent Office: 767 Days
• Field of Search: 330/133, 330/134, 330/136, 330/284, 330/285
• US Class Current: 330/133
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/0211 with control of the supply voltage or current
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/0261 with control of the polarisation voltage or current, e.g. gliding Class A
• CPC Class Codes: H03F 1/0277 Selecting one or more amplifiers from a plurality of amplifiers

Abstract

An apparatus for electromagnetic processing comprises a controller and a processor for receiving an input signal. The processor comprises one or more stages in communication with the controller. The controller is capable of regulating the input signal and the one or more stages to generate an output signal.

Claims

1. An apparatus adapted for electromagnetic processing comprising:

a controller;

a processor comprising one or more stages in communication with the controller, the processor being adapted to receive a first amplitude signal and a first phase signal;

the controller being capable of regulating the first phase signal and the one or more processor stages independent of said first amplitude signal and said first phase signal to generate an output signal.

2. An apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more stages are regulated by control signals from the controller.

3. An apparatus of claim 2, wherein the one or more stages include a last stage comprising a transistor array.

4. An apparatus adapted for electromagnetic processing comprising:

a controller; and

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a processor comprising one or more stages in communication with the controller, the processor being adapted to receive an input signal,

the controller being capable of regulating the input signal and the one or more processor stages independent of the input signal to generate an output signal,

wherein the one or more processor stages include a last stage comprising a transistor array, and

wherein the input signal comprises an amplitude component received by the last stage for regulating operation of the transistor array.

5. An apparatus of claim 4, wherein the input signal further comprises a phase component received by the one or more stages, with the control signals from the controller regulating operation of the one or more stages to output a regulated phase component.

6. An apparatus of claim 5, wherein the regulated phase component is received by the last stage and the last stage is regulated by a combination of the control signals from the controller and the amplitude component in order to generate the output signal.

7. An apparatus adapted for electromagnetic processing comprising:

a controller; and

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a processor comprising one or more stages in communication with the controller, the processor being adapted to receive first input signal,

the controller being capable of regulating the first input signal and the one or more processor stages with at least one second input signal to generate an output signal,

wherein the at least one second input signal is independent from the first input signal, and

wherein the first input signal comprises an amplitude component and a phase component received by the processor, the controller being capable of regulating at least one of the amplitude component or the phase component to generate the output signal.

8. An apparatus of claim 7, further comprising an input device in communication with the controller and the one or stages, wherein the input device receives at least one of the phase component or the amplitude component of said first input signal, with the controller sending control signals to regulate said input device in order to generate an input signal for input to the one or more stages.

9. An apparatus of claim 8, wherein the input device comprises one of an amplifier or an attenuator for receiving the phase component of the first input signal.

10. An apparatus of claim 8, wherein the input device comprises a scaling component for receiving the amplitude component of the first input signal.

11. An apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one or more stages comprise biasing.

12. An apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one or more stages comprise a defined number of transistors.

13. An apparatus of claim 8, wherein the one or more stages comprises a defined number of amplifiers and a last stage comprising a transistor array, wherein each of the one or more stages are connected with one another.

19. An article of manufacture comprising the apparatus of claim 7.

20. An article of manufacture of claim 19 comprising an integrated circuit.

14. A method for electromagnetic processing comprising:

receiving an input signal comprising an amplitude component and a phase component;

regulating the phase component of the input signal through the application of at least one control signal independent of said input signal issued by a controller thereto, and through application of the amplitude component thereto; and

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generating an output signal based upon the regulated phase component of the input signal.

15. A method of claim 14, wherein the step of regulating further comprises:

providing one or more stages connected together and with each of the one or more stages being in communication with the controller; and

regulating operation of the one or more stages by at least one control signals from the controller, wherein said at least one control signal is independent of said input signal.

16. A method of claim 15, wherein the step of regulating further comprises:

providing one of an attenuator or an amplifier in connection with a first of the one or more stages; and

regulating operation of the attenuator or the amplifier by control signals from the controller to effect a characteristic of the phase component received by the first of the one or more stages.

17. A method of claim 14, wherein the step of generating further comprises:

providing a scaling component receiving the amplitude component;

regulating operation of the scaling component by control signals from the controller to effect a characteristic of the amplitude component.

18. A method of claim 17, wherein the step of generating further comprises:

providing a last of the one or more stages in communication with the scaling component; and

regulating operation of the last of the one or more stages by the amplitude component received from the scaling component.