104 results about "Feedforward amplifiers" patented technology

The present invention has for its object to provide, in an environment where plural radio systems coexist, a feed forward amplifier for multiple frequency bands, capable of adaptively selecting the frequency band which is used.The feed forward amplifier of the present invention comprises a distortion detection circuit and a distortion elimination circuit and has first and second variable frequency band extractors 25a and 25b provided in series with respective vector adjustment paths 21a and 21b. Also, the feed forward amplifier comprises a frequency band controller which varies the frequency band of variable frequency band extractors 25a and 25b and has been designed, by changing the frequency band of first and second variable frequency band extractors 25a and 25b in response to a frequency switching request from the outside, to be able to adaptively control the frequency band in which distortion is compensated.

Amplification of an evoked potential signal is carried out utilizing a high pass filter implemented as an integrator in a feedback loop which drives the DC offset voltage to zero. As a result, the feed-forward amplifier circuit has almost zero volts at its output since the only voltage remaining is the offset voltage of the operational amplifier, which is selected so as to maintain this parameter as low as possible. Because the voltage impressed across the feed-forward amplifier section is close to zero, the gain of this section can be set to zero during the time that the electrical stimulus pulse is present without introducing any additional artifacts and subsequent amplifier stages are not driven into saturation. When the electrical stimulus potential is no longer present or is significantly reduced in amplitude and before the time of receipt of the response signal, the feed-forward amplifier is brought back into the circuit to provide the high gain required to amplify the response signal, which can be measured without interference from saturation of any of the amplifier stages as they recover to baseline.

A feedforward amplifier. The present invention therefore provides a feedforward amplifier, comprising: a pilot reference generator that generates a pilot signal; a first carrier cancellation loop; a first error amplifier loop including a first error amplifier, wherein the pilot signal is utilized to provide gain stabilization in the first error amplifier a third loop; a second carrier cancellation loop that includes a first phase and amplitude adjuster in module and a second amplitude and phase adjuster disposed between module and module, wherein the pilot signal is utilized to control the adjustment of the second carrier cancellation loop.

A feed-forward amplifier having a signal cancellation loop including a cancellation node that includes a gain controller and a phase controller. Each controller provides a discrete tap steering signal and modulates the corresponding tap steering signal with a discrete tracer signal that takes on a preselected sequence of values. The sequence chosen so that the tracer signal is mutually orthogonal to each other tracer signal over a preselected period. A gain and phase adjuster connected to the outputs of the controllers provides a controlled gain change and phase shift in the signal cancellation loop, the magnitude of the gain change and phase shift controlled by the corresponding tap steering signals presented to the gain and phase adjuster by the controllers. A detector, the input of which is connected to the cancellation node and the output of which is connected to the controllers, outputs a measure of the envelope of the signal at the cancellation node. After the preselected period new values for the tap steering signals presented to the gain and phase adjuster by the controllers are obtained by multiplying detector output by the respective tracer signal, each over the respective preselected period, summing each resulting series of values, and changing the tap steering signals to be modulated and presented to the gain and phase adjuster in accordance with the values of the respective sums.

A manufacturing module for an RF feed-forward amplifier subsystem that allows for simple and cost-effective assembly, yet provides separate compartments for the different stages of the subsystem, with low RF leakage between the compartments is disclosed. The manufacturing module comprises a printed circuit board having one or more circuit trace layers, and ground planes covering a substantial portion of the top and bottom surfaces. The printed circuited board also has numerous plated-through holes electrically connecting the top and bottom ground planes. The circuit board is sandwiched between a heatsink having a flat upper surface and a machined enclosure having an outer wall and inner divider walls. The plated-through holes, space less than +E,fra 1 / 10+EE wavelength of module's highest carrier frequency apart, serve to electrically connect the heatsink to the machined enclosure, thus creating separate compartments with low RF leakage.

An exemplary embodiment of the feed forward amplifier replaces traditional distributed directional couplers, splitters, and delay lines. Moreover, an exemplary feed forward amplifier architecture combines active implementations of RF couplers, power splitters, and / or time delay elements in a novel fashion allowing for ultra-compact size and broadband performance. In an exemplary embodiment, a feed forward amplifier has a main amplifier path and an error amplifier path. The feed forward amplifier comprises a main amplifier in the main amplifier path, and at least one active vector generator in the error amplifier path. The at least one active vector generator is configured to adjust the phase and amplitude of an error amplifier path signal and an error amplifier is configured to receive the adjusted error amplifier path signal. Furthermore, the adjusted error amplifier path signal and an amplified signal are combined to form the output signal of the feed forward amplifier.

The present invention is intended to provide a feedforward amplifier circuitry which is capable of changing a location or placement of each section constituting the feedforward circuitry, in particular a feedforward amplifier circuitry which is capable of changing an interposing location of a variable phase shifter. In the feedforward amplifier circuitry, a variable phase shifters (5, 12) can be disposed on a location other than a post-stage of a predistortion circuits (3, 20), as a result of which it is advantageously possible to provide a designer with more flexibility in changing the locations of variable shifters, regardless of the conventional arrangement of the variable phase shifters disposed on the post-stages of the distortion circuits, when the feedforward amplifier is actually designed.

A feedforward amplifier includes a first power splitter for dividing an input signal into two paths. The first path, in sequence, includes a first vector adjuster, a main amplifier, a second power splitter and a delay circuit. The second path, in sequence, includes a delay circuit, a distortion detecting power combiner, a second vector adjuster and an error amplifier. The distortion detecting power combiner combines a portion of a signal from the first path with a signal in the second path. Each vector adjuster adjusts amplitude and phase of a signal in each path. A distortion suppression power combiner synthesizes a signal in the first path with a signal in the second path. Control is included for stopping operation of the error amplifier or main amplifier based on a predetermined condition.

An RF power amplifier having reduced memory effects is disclosed. This is achieved by a novel design of the DC supply feed network to achieve low impedance across video frequencies, whilst maintaining the correct RF output matching. One or more transmission zeros are provided in the bias circuit transfer function, which are positioned in the video bandwidth so as to provide low and relatively constant impedance across the video bandwidth. Also, a parallel DC feed line may be employed to reduce impedance across the video bandwidth. The reduction in memory effects allows improved performance of predistortion linearization techniques and an implementation in a feed forward amplifier employing predistortion linearization is also disclosed.

A control circuit for a feed forward amplifier provides for pausing control and continuous adjustment of a control signal, provides for the control signal to start at any point, provides for rapid convergence, and that does not perturb the system up or down one step to confirm the convergence of the system. The control circuit receives a sampled version of a feed forward amplifier output signal, generates a non-offset control signal based on the sampled output signal, separately generates an offset voltage by reference to voltages stored in a table or based on the non-offset control signal, and combines the non-offset control signal with the offset voltage to produce a control signal. The feed forward amplifier may then adjust an error signal based on the control signal to produce an adjusted error signal that is capable of reducing distortion in the feed forward amplifier.

There is provided a feed-forward amplifier which enables a predistortion circuit to obtain sufficient distortion compensation effects even if ambient temperature or the like changes. The feed-forward amplifier includes a variable attenuator for controlling the amount of attenuation of a signal input to a main amplifier, a variable attenuator for controlling the amount of attenuation to prevent deterioration of distortion compensation due to a change in the ambient temperature of the main amplifier, a variable attenuator for controlling the amount of attenuation of a signal input to an auxiliary amplifier, and a variable attenuator for controlling the amount of attenuation to prevent deterioration of distortion compensation due to a change in the ambient temperature of the auxiliary amplifier, wherein a control circuit controls the variable attenuators to reduce the amount of attenuation according to the reduced gain of the main amplifier and the reduced gain of the auxiliary amplifier, and a control circuit controls the variable attenuators to optimize the amount of attenuation according to the ambient temperature of the main amplifier and the ambient temperature of the auxiliary amplifier.

A feed forward amplifier and method of amplification are disclosed. The amplifier output is used to generate a pilot signal via feedback using uncancelled noise in the amplifier output. An automatic level control circuit maintains the pilot signal at a substantially constant level when the detected uncancelled noise in the amplifier output is above a threshold level. The generated pilot signal strength is allowed to vary when the detected uncancelled noise in the amplifier output is below the threshold and disappears automatically when the amplifier is aligned.

A dual loop feedforward power amplifier. A dual loop feedforward power amplifier, comprising an input that provides a multicarrier signal; a first feedforward power amplifier; and a second feedforward power amplifier, wherein the first feedforward power amplifier serves as a main amplifier gain block in the second feedforward power amplifier, wherein the first feedforward power amplifier comprises a carrier cancellation loop and a first error amplifier loop, and wherein the second feedforward power amplifier comprises a third loop and a fourth loop that cancel small signal distortions that are not reduced by the first feedforward amplifier.

A multi-band feed-forward amplifier is formed by: a dividing part for dividing and applying an input signal containing signals of multiple frequency bands to a linear signal path and N vector adjustment paths of a distortion detecting circuit; frequency band signal extractors provided in the N vector adjustment paths, respectively, for extracting signals of N frequency bands; N vector adjusters for adjusting the vectors of the output signals from the respective frequency band signal extractors; a main amplifier for amplifying the output signals from the N vector adjusters; a combining / dividing part for combining the amplified signals and the signal from the linear signal path of the distortion detecting circuit and for dividing and applying the combined output to a linear signal path and N distortion injection paths of a distortion cancelling circuit; frequency band signal extractors provided in the N distortion injection paths, respectively, for extracting the signals of the N frequency bands; vector adjusters for adjusting the vectors of signals separated into the N frequency bands; an auxiliary amplifying part for amplifying the vector-adjusted N signals; and a combining part for combining the amplified signals and the signal from the linear signal path of the distortion cancelling circuit.