A circuit is presented which includes a first amplifier having an input, a transmission line having first and second ends. The first end of the transmission line is coupled to an input of the first amplifier and a plurality of channels. Each channel includes a plurality of resonators arranged to read out a plurality of qubits, respectively and a readout line arranged to receive read out signals from the plurality of resonators. The readout line of each channel is coupled to the transmission line and each channel is configured to output a respective signal in a respective frequency band which is different from frequency bands of other channels in the plurality of channels.

A tracker module is provided that includes an external connection terminal, a tracker, and a variable low pass filter. The external connection terminal is connected to a power amplifier. The tracker supplies a power supply voltage to the power amplifier via the external connection terminal by using an envelope tracking method. The variable low pass filter is disposed on a path between the tracker and the external connection terminal. In the variable low pass filter, a first block includes at least one electronic component. A second block is a block that varies a cutoff frequency of the variable low pass filter. The second block is integrated with the tracker into one package. The first block is disposed separately from the tracker.

A tracker module is provided that includes a second substrate that is separate from a first substrate, a tracker component, and a low pass filter. A power amplifier is disposed on or in the first substrate. Moreover, the tracker component supplies a power supply voltage to the power amplifier. The low pass filter is disposed on a path between an output terminal of the tracker component and the power amplifier. The tracker component and the low pass filter are disposed on or in the second substrate.

Asymmetric Doherty power amplifiers are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a Doherty power amplifier includes a carrier amplifier that generates a radio frequency carrier signal based on amplifying a radio frequency input signal, a peaking amplifier that generates a radio frequency peaking signal based on amplifying the radio frequency input signal, and a phase shifting and combining circuit configured to combine the radio frequency carrier signal and the radio frequency peaking signal to generate a radio frequency output signal. The carrier amplifier and the peaking amplifier have asymmetric amplifier sizes.

An electronic apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a circuit element configured to output a signal comprising a modulated frequency component. The apparatus also includes a filter arrangement comprising first, second and third notch filter arrangements, wherein each of the first and second notch filter arrangements comprise a first series inductor, and a series shunt configuration comprising a second inductor and a capacitor coupled in series and the third notch filter arrangement comprises a series inductor and a shunt capacitor, wherein each of the notch filter arrangements are configured to generate a notch in a frequency response to attenuate the output signal at a frequency of the modulated frequency component.

The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for detecting and preventing occurrence of a saturation state in a power amplifier. A power amplifier module can include a power amplifier including a cascode transistor pair. The cascode transistor pair can include a first transistor and a second transistor. The power amplifier module can include a current comparator configured to compare a first base current of the first transistor and a second base current of the second transistor to obtain a comparison value. The power amplifier module can include a saturation controller configured to supply a reference signal to an impedance matching network based on the comparison value. The impedance matching network can be configured to modify a load impedance of a load line in electrical communication with the power amplifier based at least in part on the reference signal.

A PA module includes: a multilayer substrate having a ground pattern layer connected to a ground of a power source; amplifier transistors disposed on the multilayer substrate; a bypass capacitor having one end connected to the collector of the amplifier transistor; a first wiring line connecting the emitter of the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer to each other; a second wiring line connecting the emitter of the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer to each other; a third wiring line connecting the other end of the bypass capacitor and the ground pattern layer to each other; and a fourth wiring line formed between the amplifier transistor and the ground pattern layer and between the bypass capacitor and the ground pattern layer and connecting the first wiring line and the third wiring line to each other.

Exemplary multipath digital microphones described herein can comprise exemplary embodiments of automatic gain control and multipath digital audio signal digital signal processing chains, which allow low power and die size to be achieved as described herein, while still providing a high DR digital microphone systems. Further non-limiting embodiments can facilitate switching between multipath digital audio signal digital signal processing chains while minimizing audible artifacts associated with either the change in the gain automatic gain control amplifiers switching between multipath digital audio signal digital signal processing chains.

A radio-frequency module includes: a transmitting circuit disposed on a mounting substrate to process a radio-frequency signal input from a transmission terminal and to output a resultant signal to a common terminal; a receiving circuit disposed on the mounting substrate to process a radio-frequency signal input from the common terminal and to output a resultant signal to a reception terminal; a first inductor included in a first transmitting circuit; and a bonding wire connected to the ground and bridging over the first inductor.

An apparatus comprises a digital processing device configured to generate a digital transmission signal, a digital-to-analog converter connected to the digital processing device and configured to convert the digital transmission signal into an analog transmission signal, and a power amplifier connected to the digital-to-analog converter and configured to amplify the analog transmission signal. An antenna filter is connected to the power amplifier and configured to filter the amplified analog transmission signal; the antenna filter is configured to pass frequencies in at least one passband and to attenuate frequencies in at least one stopband. The digital processing device is configured to perform a process of reducing peak power in the digital transmission signal; in this process error components having different frequencies are produced. A frequency spectrum of the error components is manipulated such that a part of the error components is deposited in the stopband of the antenna filter.