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US 2024/0171202 A1Published application
Rf receiver
AssigneeCsem Centre Suisse D'Electronique Et De Microtechnique SA—Recherche Et DéVeloppement
InventorsKonstantinos MANETAKIS, Nicola SCOLARI, Fabio EPIFANO
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Abstract
A RF transmitter includes a phase-locked loop having an oscillator arranged to output an oscillator carrier and a power amplifier arranged to conduct a power amplifier current. The RF transmitter includes a phase shifter module between the phase-locked loop and the power amplifier arranged to introduce a phase shift between the oscillator carrier and a harmonic of the power amplifier current in order reduce a frequency shift of the oscillator carrier due to pushing and/or pulling.
Claims14
A RF transmitter comprising:
- a phase-locked loop, comprising an oscillator arranged to output an oscillator carrier,
- a power amplifier, arranged to conduct a power amplifier current,
- characterised in that the RF transmitter comprises:
- a phase shifter module between the phase-locked loop and the power amplifier, arranged to introduce a phase shift between the oscillator carrier and a harmonic of the power amplifier current, in order reduce a frequency shift of the oscillator carrier due to pushing and/or pulling,
- a computing unit,
- an oscillator frequency shift measurement unit,
- wherein
- the power amplifier is arranged to be ramped-up during a calibration phase,
- the phase shifter module is arranged so that during this calibration phase, the variable phase shift takes different values,
- the measurement unit is arranged to measure the oscillator frequency shift against a load power for each value of the phase shift,
- the computing unit is arranged to select the value of the phase shift minimizing a peak-peak oscillator frequency shift against the load power.
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