Methods and systems for power amplification with digital quantized power supply with multiple amplifiers are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, In one embodiment, a time-varying envelope signal is sampled, quantized and decomposed into several constituent signals that are individually amplified, and then combined to form a desired amplified version of the quantized time-varying envelope. Amplitude, phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals and supply voltages V.sub.dd and source current of one or more amplifiers are digital controlled based on the information provided by quantization process and slow and fast power control information. Amplitude, phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the constituent signals to be amplified are controlled to provide the desired amplitude, phase, frequency, and/or spectral characteristics of the desired quantized version of the time-varying envelope signal.

A conventional Doherty amplifier requires a load modulation line having an electrical length of 90 degrees, a frequency compensation line having an electrical length of an integral (n) multiple of 180 degrees, and an input phase adjustment line having an electrical length corresponding to a difference (180n90) between the electrical length of the load modulation line and the electrical length of the frequency compensation line. Thus, the conventional Doherty amplifier has a problem of an increase in circuit size.

A Doherty amplifier according to the present invention includes: a transistor for a carrier amplifier; a transistor for a peak amplifier; a transmission line connected between an output terminal of the transistor for the carrier amplifier and an output terminal of the transistor for the peak amplifier; a stub that is connected in parallel to the output terminal of the transistor for the peak amplifier and that is capacitive and inductive in a working frequency band; and an output matching circuit connected to the output terminal of the transistor for the peak amplifier, the transmission line, and an output load, the output matching circuit to transform an impedance of the output load into an impedance lower than the impedance of the output load.

A power amplifier having: a plurality of N amplifier modules, where N is an integer greater than one; an M:N power splitter having M inputs, where M is an integer less than N, and N outputs, each one of the N outputs being coupled to an input of a corresponding one of the plurality of N power amplifiers; a plurality of M delay lines, each one the M delay lines having an output coupled to a corresponding one of the M inputs of the M:N power splitter, each one of the plurality of M delay lines being coupled to a common input of the power amplifier.

A radio-frequency circuit includes a power amplifying circuit configured to amplify a first radio-frequency signal having a first channel bandwidth and a second radio-frequency signal having a second channel bandwidth greater than the first channel bandwidth. The power amplifying circuit is configured to amplify the first radio-frequency signal in an amplifying mode according to an average power tracking method, and to amplify the second radio-frequency signal in an amplifying mode according to an envelope tracking method.

Techniques for efficient operation of a linear stage in an H-bridge system are provided. In an example, a linear stage can switch between voltage regulation and current regulation over a range of a command signal. The particular regulation mode can depend on the regulation mode of a switched stage of the H-bridge system. Efficiency can he realized by using current regulation of the linear stage when the output voltage of the linear stage moves away from the voltage of a supply rail. Such a control scheme can reduce the voltage across the linear stage for a larger range of the command signal resulting in less heat dissipation of the linear stage compared to conventional control of H-bridge linear stages.

A radio-frequency circuit includes a power amplifying circuit configured to amplify a first radio-frequency signal having a first channel bandwidth and a second radio-frequency signal having a second channel bandwidth greater than the first channel bandwidth. The power amplifying circuit is configured to amplify the first radio-frequency signal in an amplifying mode according to an envelope tracking method, and to amplify the second radio-frequency signal in an amplifying mode according to an average power tracking method.

Embodiments of the present invention provide a power amplifier, a radio remote unit RRU, and a base station. A multiphase pulse width modulator performs modulation to generate N multiphase pulse-width modulation PWM signals. The multiphase pulse-width modulation PWMn signal may be amplified. The multiphase pulse-width modulation PWMn signal may be filtered and a combination may be performed at a drain or a collector of a power amplifier transistor. According to the new radio frequency amplifier in accordance with the disclosure, envelope feeding loop inductance can be effectively reduced, so that video bandwidth is increased and DPD correction performance is improved.

A transistor includes an active region bounded by an outer periphery and formed in a substrate. The active region includes sets of input fingers, output fingers, and common fingers disposed within the substrate and oriented substantially parallel to one another. The transistor further includes an input port, an output port, a first via connection disposed at the outer periphery of the active region proximate the input port and a second via connection disposed at the outer periphery of the active region proximate the output port. The second via connection has a noncircular cross-section with a second major axis and a second minor axis, the second major axis having a second major axis length, the second minor axis having a second minor axis length that is less than the second major axis length. The second major axis is oriented parallel to a longitudinal dimension of the input, output, and common fingers.

System and method for efficient operation of power amplifiers in dynamic carrier systems. In one example, the method includes determining a composite RMS power and peak power for a carrier configuration of an RF transmitter, determining a number of active banks of power amplifiers as a function of composite RMS power and peak power, and determining a number of active power amplifiers within a bank of power amplifiers as a function of composite RMS power and peak power. The method also includes activating a first bank of power amplifiers and/or a second bank of power amplifiers based on the determined number of active banks of power amplifiers and activating a subset of a one or more first power amplifiers of the first bank of power amplifiers and a one or more second power amplifiers of the second bank of power amplifiers based on the determined number of active power amplifiers.

A matching network is a matching network of a power amplifier circuit that outputs a signal obtained by a differential amplifier amplifying power of a high-frequency signal. The matching network includes an input-side winding connected between differential outputs of the differential amplifier; an output-side winding that is coupled to the input-side winding via an electromagnetic field and whose one end is connected to a reference potential; a first LC series resonant circuit including a capacitive element and an inductive element connected in series with each other, and being connected in parallel with the input-side winding; and a second LC series resonant circuit including a capacitive element and an inductive element connected in series with each other, and being connected in parallel with the output-side winding.