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US 2016/0036393 A1Published application
Linearized gate capacitance in power amplifiers
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsSaihua Lin, Anup Savla
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Abstract
An apparatus includes: a plurality of amplification stages, each stage comprising a cascode transistor; and a bridge circuit coupled between gate terminals of cascode transistors in two adjacent stages of the plurality of amplification stages, the bridge circuit including a plurality of diodes.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of amplification stages, each stage comprising a cascode transistor;
- and
- a bridge circuit coupled between gate terminals of cascode transistors in two adjacent stages of the plurality of amplification stages, the bridge circuit including a plurality of diodes.
An apparatus comprising:
- a plurality of amplification stages, each stage comprising a cascode transistor;
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- a bridge circuit coupled between gate terminals of cascode transistors in two adjacent stages of the plurality of amplification stages, the bridge circuit including a plurality of varactors.
An apparatus comprising:
- means for coupling a bridge circuit between gate terminals of a common-gate stage of an amplifier, the bridge circuit including a plurality of diodes;
- means for positively biasing the bridge circuit for a high gain mode;
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- means for negatively biasing the bridge circuit for a high linearity mode.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.