A power amplifier module includes a carrier circuit including at least one carrier amplifier; a peak circuit including at least one peak amplifier; a carrier control circuit that controls base current or gate voltage of a certain carrier amplifier in the carrier circuit; and a carrier output circuit that is connected to a carrier amplifier at an output side in the carrier circuit and that supplies a carrier control signal for controlling the base current or the gate voltage of the certain carrier amplifier to the carrier control circuit.

A system includes a first differential amplifier and a first transformer with a primary coil coupled to an output of the first differential amplifier and with a secondary coil coupled to a load. The system also includes a second differential amplifier and a second transformer with a primary coil coupled to an output of the second differential amplifier and with a secondary coil coupled in series with the secondary coil of the first transformer. The system also includes a tuning network coupled to a center tap node between the secondary coil of the first transformer and the secondary coil of the second transformer.

A noise detecting circuit including an amplifier circuit, a filtering circuit and a comparing circuit. The amplifier circuit is arranged to amplify an input signal and output an amplified signal, wherein the input signal is received from a circuit to be detected and indicates a noise level of the circuit to be detected. The filtering circuit is coupled to the amplifier circuit and arranged to filter the amplified signal and output a filtered signal. The comparing circuit is coupled to the filtering circuit and arranged to compare the filtered signal to a reference voltage and output an output signal indicating the noise level of the circuit to be detected.

A testing system includes: a dividing circuit configured to receive a testing signal and provide a plurality of input signals according to the testing signal; and a plurality of power-amplifier chips coupled to the dividing circuit, each of the plurality of power-amplifier chips being configured to be tested by receiving a respective input signal of the plurality of input signals and generating a respective output signal for a predetermined testing time.

A power amplifier, a power amplifier system, and an operating method thereof are provided. The power amplifier system may include a power amplifier, a power amplifier controller, and a voltage generator. The power amplifier may include a plurality of power transistor cells each of which receives an RF signal through a control terminal thereof to amplify the RF signal. The power amplifier controller may control turn-on and turn-off operations of at least one power transistor cell among the plurality of power transistor cells based on a power mode. The voltage generator may generate a power supply voltage supplied to first terminals of the power transistor cells and may change the power supply voltage depending on the power mode.

Circuits and methods for using in parallel amplification and signal combining are described herein. A circuit uses a digitally controlled multistage cascade combiner, a digital phase and drive signal amplifier controller and a digital combiner controller circuit with N parallel signals with constant amplitudes belonging to an alphabet with M discrete values and discrete phases feeding it. The signals resulting from N power amplifiers (PAs) have also constant amplitudes belonging to an alphabet with N discrete values and discrete phases prior to being fed to the multistage combiner. A digital combiner controller circuit generates digital control information to activate, or deactivate, the outputs of the PAs, where a set of digital control signals generated in digital combiner controller are used to control sets of switches, where the signals can be activated at the combiner's inputs, according to their power and phase values. The digital control information ensures that only in-phase signals are combined in the active combiner stage and any difference among the inputs of the combiners is always minimized. Both digital combiner controller and digital drive signal amplifier controller, share information about the signals not to be fed to the multistage combiner, so that PAs drive signals can also be powered off under these circumstances. In provide high efficiency amplification the signal amplifiers employed before the combining stage may be of switched or current source type.

A scalable periphery tunable matching power amplifier is presented. Varying power levels can be accommodated by selectively activating or deactivating unit cells of which the scalable periphery tunable matching power amplifier is comprised. Tunable matching allows individual unit cells to see a constant output impedance, reducing need for transforming a low impedance up to a system impedance and attendant power loss. The scalable periphery tunable matching power amplifier can also be tuned for different operating conditions such as different frequencies of operation or different modes.

Various examples are directed to systems and methods for operating a plurality of power amplifiers. A predistortion circuit may pre-distort an input signal according to a predistortion configuration to generate a pre-distorted signal for the plurality of power amplifiers. An adaption circuit may receive a first feedback signal from a first power amplifier of the plurality of power amplifiers and generate predistortion correlation data describing a correlation between parameters of a model describing the plurality of power amplifiers. The adaption circuit may receive a first feedback signal from a second power amplifier of the plurality of power amplifiers and update the predistortion correlation data to generate updated predistortion correlation data using the first feedback signal from the second power amplifier. The adaption circuit may also generate the predistortion configuration using the updated predistortion correlation data.

An amplification device includes an amplification unit, an impedance unit and a log power detector. The amplification unit includes an input terminal for receiving a radio-frequency signal, an output terminal for outputting an amplified radio-frequency signal, and a detected terminal for outputting a detected signal related to the radio-frequency signal. The impedance unit is used to provide an impedance. The impedance unit includes an input terminal coupled to the detected terminal of the amplification unit for receiving the detected signal, and an output terminal for outputting a power signal. The log power detector is used to generate a power indication signal according to the power signal. The log power detector includes an input terminal coupled to the output terminal of the impedance unit, and an output terminal for outputting the power indication signal.

A communication device includes a power amplifier that generates power signals according to one or more operating bands of communication data, with the amplitude being driven and generated in output stages of the power amplifier. The final stage can include an output passive network that suppresses suppress an amplitude modulation-to-phase modulation (AM-PM) distortion. During a back-off power mode a bias of a capacitive unit of the output power network component can be adjusted to minimize an overall capacitance variation. A output passive network can further generate a flat-phase response between dual resonances of operation.