High-frequency power amplifier and communication apparatus
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsOki Maya, Kazuki Tateoka
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Abstract
A temperature compensation circuit 145 included in a collector voltage generation section 130a applies an offset voltage Vofs(T) to a power control signal Vctrl according to a device temperature. The resulting temperature compensation circuit output voltage Vctrl′ (T) is applied to a collector terminal of a bipolar transistor 110 through a voltage regulator 140 and a choke inductor 170.
Claims9
A high-frequency power amplifier capable of minimizing a temperature dependence of an output power even in a saturation region of a bipolar transistor, the amplifier comprising:
- a bipolar transistor;
- a base bias circuit for applying a base voltage to the bipolar transistor;
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- a collector voltage generation section for applying a collector voltage to the bipolar transistor, wherein
- the collector voltage generation section includes a temperature compensation circuit for performing temperature compensation on a power control signal to be inputted,
- wherein the collector voltage generation section applies, as a collector offset voltage, a voltage having a difference between a reference collector voltage at which a desired collector current is obtained at a reference temperature and a collector voltage required to obtain the desired collector current at actual temperature, to the reference collector voltage.
A communication apparatus comprising:
- a baseband circuit;
- a converter for converting an output signal of the baseband circuit into an amplitude modulation signal and a phase modulation signal;
- a collector voltage generation section including a temperature compensation circuit for performing temperature compensation on the amplitude modulation signal;
- a voltage controlled oscillator for controlling an oscillatory frequency based on the phase modulation signal;
- a bipolar transistor having a collector terminal and a base terminal, an output voltage of the collector voltage generation section being applied to the collector terminal and an output of the voltage controlled oscillator being inputted to the base terminal;
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- a base bias circuit for applying a base voltage to the bipolar transistor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.