Amplifiers – With control of power supply or bias voltage – With control of input electrode or gain control electrode bias
Reexamination Certificate
1999-05-28
2001-07-10
Pascal, Robert (Department: 2817)
Amplifiers
With control of power supply or bias voltage
With control of input electrode or gain control electrode bias
C330S134000, C455S127500
Reexamination Certificate
active
06259318
ABSTRACT:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates, in general, to transmitters and, more particularly, to an amplifier for generating an amplitude and frequency modulated signal.
Phase-Locked Loop (PLL) frequency synthesis is a well known technique for generating one of many related signals from a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). In a PLL, an output signal from the VCO is coupled to a programmable frequency divider which divides by a selected integer number. A phase detector compares the frequency divided signal to a reference signal and any difference in phase between the frequency divided signal and the reference signal is output from the phase detector, coupled through a loop filter, and applied to the VCO. The VCO provides an output signal that changes in frequency such that the phase error between the frequency divided signal and the reference signal is minimized.
In order to overcome the limitations of the output frequency step size being constrained to be equal to the reference signal frequency, a fractional-N synthesizer having programmable frequency dividers capable of dividing by non-integers has been developed. Output frequency step sizes which are fractions of the reference signal frequency are obtained while maintaining a high reference frequency and wide loop bandwidth. A transmitter that includes a fractional-N synthesizer has been used to provide a phase modulation signal for Global System for Mobil communications (GSM). Other communications protocols such as Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) and Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) require amplitude modulation in addition to the phase modulation. An in-phase and quadrature (I/Q) modulator is typically used for combining a signal with complex coefficients in generating the amplitude and frequency modulated RF signal that is transmitted by the transmitter. However, RF signals with amplitude modulated components must be amplified by very linear amplifiers which have low efficiency.
Hence, a need exists for a transmitter capable of operating over a wide frequency band, while providing an RF modulated output signal having both amplitude modulation and phase modulation at high efficiency.
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Drogi Serge
Higashi Albert H.
Mielke James S.
Motorola Inc.
Nguyen Khanh Van
Parker Lanny L.
Pascal Robert
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