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Amplifiers January recently filed with US Patent Office 01/13

20130027128 - Systems and methods of rf power transmission, modulation, and amplification: Methods and systems for vector combining power amplification are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a plurality of signals are individually amplified, then summed to form a desired time-varying complex envelope signal. Phase and/or frequency characteristics of one or more of the signals are controlled to provide the desired phase, frequency,... Agent: Parkervision, Inc.

20130027130 - Collector boost: Embodiments of power amplification devices are described with a power amplification circuit that has more than one amplifier stage and with at least a first voltage regulation circuit and a second voltage regulation circuit configured that provide regulated voltages to these amplifier stages. The power amplification device includes a threshold... Agent: Rf Micro Devices, Inc.

20130027131 - Sound output device using vacuum tube, audio apparatus and method for sound output thereof: A sound output device is provided. The sound output device includes a vacuum tube for amplifying an audio signal; a power supply that supplies power to the vacuum tube; a first switch circuit that selectively connects the power supply to the vacuum tube; and a controller that controls the first... Agent: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

20130027129 - Transmit circuit, method for adjusting a bias of a power amplifier and method for adapting the provision of a bias information: A transmit circuit includes a power amplifier configured to amplify an RF input signal to obtain an RF output signal, and an antenna tuner configured to transform an antenna impedance to an impedance at an input of the antenna tuner, wherein the input of the antenna tuner is coupled to... Agent: Intel Mobile Communications Gmbh

20130027132 - High efficiency multiple power mode linear radio frequency power amplifier: The embodiments disclosed in the detailed description include a power amplifier having a low power mode amplifier, a medium power mode amplifier, and a high power mode amplifier in communication with a radio frequency (RF) output load. The exemplary embodiments of the power amplifier permit a wireless device to select... Agent: Rf Micro Devices, Inc.

20130027133 - Sense amplifiers including bias circuits: Sense amplifiers including bias circuits are described. Examples include bias circuits having an adjustable width transistor. A loop gain of the bias circuit may be determined in part by the adjustable width of the transistor. Examples of sense amplifiers including amplifier stages configured to bias an input/output node to a... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20130027134 - Switching regulator with variable compensation: A switching regulator circuit includes a power stage and a compensation network. The compensation network includes a programmable transconductance (gm), having a first selectable transconductance such a closed loop transfer function of the switching regulator circuit may be characterized by a first transfer function having a having a first DC... Agent: Summit Microelectronics, Inc.

20130027135 - Systems and methods for adaptive bias circuits for a power amplifier: Systems and methods may include an amplifier having at least a first input port, where the amplifier includes a first capacitance associated with the first input port; a first bias circuit, where the first bias circuit comprises a series connection of a first charging circuit and a first discharging circuit,... Agent: Samsung Electro-mechanics Company

20130027136 - Variable gain amplifier system and method: The invention provides a variable gain amplifier system for use in a burst mode receiver, said system comprising an amplifier adapted to amplify a signal; a gain control module; a dc offset compensation module adapted to derive a compensation signal as a function of the amplifier gain. Compared to existing... Agent: University College Cork - National University Of Ireland

20130027137 - Radiation hardened differential amplifier: This disclosure is directed to techniques for preventing or reducing perturbations of an output signal of a differential amplifier caused by ionizing radiation incident upon the amplifier. The amplifier may include an amplification module that includes a plurality of amplification units configured to amplify a difference between a first component... Agent: Honeywell International Inc.

20130027138 - Amplifier circuit and method for signal sensing: An amplifier circuit (10) comprises a driver stage (11) with a driver output (13). Moreover, the amplifier circuit (10) comprises a sensor (12). The sensor (12) comprises a variable attenuator (15) with a control input (16) for receiving a mode signal (SMODE). A sensor output (14) of the sensor (12)... Agent: Epcos Ag

20130021094 - Circuit for optimizing a power management system during varying load conditions: A circuit for optimizing a power management system. The circuit includes a first amplifier. The first amplifier is responsive to a first reference signal and operable to supply a first load current. The circuit also includes a second amplifier coupled to the first amplifier. The second amplifier is responsive to... Agent: Cosmic Circuits Private Limited

20130021095 - Power-amplifier arrangement: A power-amplifier arrangement (35) is disclosed. The power-amplifier arrangement (35) comprises a pulse modulator (40) adapted to receive a digital input signal of the power-amplifier arrangement (35) and generate, based on the digital input signal of the power-amplifier arrangement (35), an output signal of the pulse modulator (40) with a... Agent: Telefonaktiebolaget Lm Ericsson (publ)

20130021096 - Digital amplifier: A digital amplifier comprises: a switching unit that amplifies a signal input to the digital amplifier by performing a switching operation; a driving unit that turns the switching unit on and off; an input signal detection unit that detects an input signal to the digital amplifier; and a first control... Agent: Panasonic Corporation

20130021097 - Inductive-element feedback-loop compensator: Described is an inductive compensating network coupled between the differential inputs of an operational amplifier circuit. The inductive compensating network includes at least one inductive element having an inductance value selected so as to provide proper compensation of the operational amplifier circuit. Also described is a feedback compensation scheme which... Agent: Massachusetts Institute Of Technology

20130021098 - Integrator distortion correction circuit: A system and method for reducing gain error and distortion in an operational amplifier due to errors in the second or integrator stage. A correction circuit may replicate an error current and insert the current into the signal stream to preempt the induction of an error at the amplifier's input.... Agent: Analog Devices, Inc.

20130021100 - Method and system for multiple tuner application using a low noise broadband distribution amplifier: An active splitter circuit arrangement includes a first amplification module having a number of first input ports and first output ports. The first amplification module is configured to provide first stage amplification to a received input signal and produce from the amplified input signal a number of output signals, each... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130021099 - Vramp limiting using resistors: Power amplification devices are described, which are configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) transmission signal. The power amplification device includes a voltage regulation circuit and a power amplification circuit. The voltage regulation circuit includes a voltage regulator that is operable to generate a regulated voltage from the supply voltage... Agent: Rf Micro Devices, Inc.

20130021101 - Differential amplifier having rail-to-rail input voltage range: A differential amplifier having a rail-to-rail input voltage range, includes a first differential input stage, which is connected to a first supply voltage rail via a first power source and a second complementary differential input stage, which is connected to the second supply voltage rail via a second power source.... Agent:

20130021102 - High frequency amplifier circuit: A high frequency amplifier circuit includes a first transistor that has a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal, the first terminal being grounded, a second transistor that has a first terminal, a second terminal and a control terminal, the control terminal of the second transistor being coupled... Agent: Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

20130021103 - High power wideband amplifier and method: An amplifier including a high supply voltage source and a low supply voltage source and two parallel signal paths. Each signal path is connected to the high and the low supply voltage sources and includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The two signal paths are connected to each... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130021104 - Amplifier arrangement: An amplifier arrangement for amplifying a radio signal comprising at least a first amplifier module and a second amplifier module is presented wherein a splitter stage for dividing an amplifier stage input signal into several signal portions. The signal portions are amplified in the at least two parallel amplifier modules.... Agent: Ubidyne, Inc.

20130015916 - Common-mode amplifier step response: An auto-zero amplifier includes a main amplifier for amplifying an input signal; the main amplifier receives an offset-correction signal for cancelling an offset at a first common-mode level of the input signal. At the first common-mode level, the offset-correction signal is based on a first value stored using a first... Agent: Analog Devices, Inc.

20130015917 - Distortion compensation apparatus, transmitter, and distortion compensation method: A distortion compensation apparatus includes an amplifying unit, a plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage units, a first address generating unit, a second address generating unit, and a distortion compensating unit. The amplifying unit amplifies an input signal. A plurality of distortion compensation coefficient storage units store the distortion compensation... Agent: Fujitsu Limited

20130015918 - High speed amplifier: For high speed amplifiers, the parasitic capacitances between a differential input pairs and a cascoded bias network can introduce a pole that can affect performance. Here, a feedforward network has been provided that compensates for this pole by introducing a zero that effectively cancels the pole, moving the next parasitic... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20130015919 - System and method for capacitive signal source amplifier: According to an embodiment, a system for amplifying a signal provided by a capacitive signal source includes a first stage and a second stage. The first stage has a voltage follower device including an input terminal configured to be coupled to a first terminal of the capacitive signal source, and... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag

20130009701 - Power amplifier pre-distortion: The present invention is directed to systems and methods for reducing the distortion of power amplifiers. In particular, methods and systems are described that enable a determination of a pre-distortion correction signal to be determined, which when added to the nominal signal, a reduction in the distortion of the power... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130009702 - Pre-distortion for a radio frequency power amplifier: Coefficients of a pre-distorter are determined for distortion correction of a signal amplified by a radio frequency amplifier by sampling the signal at the pre-distorter input to generate a plurality of input samples and sampling the signal at the amplifier output to generate a plurality of output samples, each of... Agent: Research In Motion Limited

20130009703 - Bulk-driven current-sense amplifier and operating method thereof: A bulk-driven current-sense amplifier and an amplifier operating method are disclosed. The bulk-driven current-sense amplifier includes a differential amplifier, a first driver, and a second driver. The first driver is coupled to the differential amplifier, and a first node is formed at a connectivity segment of the first driver. The... Agent:

20130009704 - Transceiver and integrated circuit: An integrated circuit is disclosed, including a balun, a transistor pair, and a degeneration inductor winding. The balun has an outer boundary, and comprises a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding is adapted to receive an input signal. The secondary winding is magnetically coupled to the primary... Agent: Mediatek Inc.

20130009705 - Sense amplifier having loop gain control: Memories, sense amplifiers, and methods for amplifying a current input are disclosed, including a sense amplifier including a bias circuit configured to provide a bias voltage having a magnitude responsive to maintaining a substantially constant loop gain, and further including an amplifier stage coupled to the bias circuit to receive... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20130009706 - Electronic device and method for an amplifier with resistive feedback: An electronic device comprising an amplifier having at least a first input transistor of a first doping type. A first transistor is coupled with a channel as a feedback path between an output of the amplifier and a control gate of the first input transistor forming an input of the... Agent: Texas Instruments Deutschland Gmbh

20130009707 - N-way doherty distributed power amplifier with power tracking: A power amplifier using N-way Doherty structure with adaptive bias supply power tracking for extending the efficiency region over the high peak-to-average power:ratio of the multiplexing modulated signals such as wideband code division multiple access and orthogonal frequency division multiplexing is disclosed. In an embodiment, present invention uses a dual-feed... Agent: Dali Systems Co., Ltd., Maples Corporate Services Limited

20130009709 - Power amplifier: A power amplifier comprises a plurality of primary inductors provided on a substrate in a circular geometry as a whole; a plurality of amplifier pairs; a secondary inductor; and a connection wiring. Each amplifier pair is coupled to two ends of a corresponding primary inductor, and amplifies and output to... Agent:

20130009708 - Wideband doherty amplifier circuit with impedance combiner: An amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier operable to turn on at a first power level, a second amplifier operable to turn on at a second power level below the first power level and a third amplifier operable to turn on at all power levels. A first power combiner is... Agent: Infineon Technologies Ag

20130009710 - Rf amplifier module, integrated circuit device, wireless communication unit and method therefor: A radio frequency (RF) amplifier module has a digitally controllable amplifier to receive a first biased signal, a further biased signal, and a digital control signal including a less significant bit (LSB) component and a more significant bit (MSB) component. The digitally controllable amplifier has an LSB module operating according... Agent:

20130009711 - Read out integrated circuit: According to one embodiment, a circuit comprises a Capacitive Trans-Impedance Amplifier (CTIA) configured to receive a current pulse at an input and convert the current pulse to a voltage step. The voltage step is directed to a first signal path and a second signal path. When the voltage step exceeds... Agent: Raytheon Company

20130002346 - Parallel correction amplifier: There is disclosed a power supply stage, and a method of controlling such, comprising: a means for generating an intermediate supply signal in dependence on a reference signal representing a desired power supply; and a plurality of adjusting means, each adapted to generate an adjusted supply signal tracking the reference... Agent: Nujira Limited

20130002347 - Coupling system for data receivers: A data receiver, a method of operating a data receiver, and an integrated coupling system in a data receiver are disclosed. In one embodiment, the data receiver comprises an input terminal for receiving an input data signal, an input amplifier for amplifying selected components of the input data signal, and... Agent: International Business Machines Corporation

20130002348 - Amplifier with improved noise reduction: An amplifier with improved noise reduction is disclosed. In one implementation, an amplifier is provided that includes a main output stage configured to output an amplified signal at a main output terminal, a secondary output stage configured to output a copy of the amplified signal at a secondary output terminal,... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130002349 - Bypass power amplifier for improving efficiency at low power: Embodiments of a two-stage bypass power amplifier are provided. In general, the two-stage bypass power amplifier is configured to receive a RF signal that is to be transmitted to a remote device and provide gain to the RF signal prior to the RF signal being transmitted to the remote device.... Agent: Broadcom Corporation

20130002350 - Differential comparator: A comparator includes a differential amplifier having first and second input terminals and first and second output terminals. An input stage is operable to receive first and second input signals. The input stage includes first and second capacitors coupled to the first and second input terminals, respectively. Circuitry is operable... Agent: Globalfoundries Inc.

20130002353 - Multi-input operational amplifier and output voltage compensation method thereof: An output error compensation method adapted to a multi-input operational amplifier is disclosed. The output error compensation method includes following steps. A plurality of original transconductances of a plurality of differential pairs is obtained regarding a specific combination of input voltages received by the differential pairs. Transconductance differences of a... Agent: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

20130002352 - Sensing circuit: A circuit includes a degeneration p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor (PMOS) transistor, a load PMOS transistor, and a clamp transistor configured to clamp a voltage applied to a resistance based memory element during a sensing operation. A gate of the load PMOS transistor is controlled by an output of an operational amplifier.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20130002354 - Signaling systems, preamplifiers, memory devices and methods: Signaling systems, preamplifiers, memory devices and methods are disclosed, such as a signaling system that includes a transmitter configured to receive a first digital signal. The transmitter provides a transmitted signal corresponding to the digital signal to a signal path. A receiver system coupled to the signal line includes a... Agent: Micron Technology, Inc.

20130002351 - Voltage generating circuit and method: A circuit comprises a first amplifier and a second amplifier. The first amplifier is configured to amplify a first voltage difference between a first voltage and a second voltage, and to generate a third voltage. The second amplifier is configured to amplify a second voltage difference between the third voltage... Agent: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.

20130002355 - Differential amplifier and comparator: According to one embodiment, a differential amplifier includes a differential circuit, an output circuit, and a clipper circuit. The differential circuit generates a pair of differential currents in accordance with a difference in potential between a pair of input signals. The output circuit receives the pair of differential currents and... Agent: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba

20130002356 - Operational amplifier: An operational amplifier including a primary differential input pair, a primary tail current source module, N auxiliary differential input pairs, and N auxiliary tail current source modules is disclosed. A first and a second input terminal of the primary differential input pair respectively receive a first and a second input... Agent: Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

20130002357 - Providing automatic power control for a power amplifier: A power control circuit is coupled to receive a feedback signal from a power amplifier (PA) and generate a control signal to control a variable gain amplifier (VGA) coupled to an input to the PA based on the feedback signal. The power control circuit may include, in one embodiment, a... Agent:

20130002358 - Electronic circuitry for high-temperature environments: A circuitry adapted to operate in a high-temperature environment of a turbine engine is provided. A relatively high-gain differential amplifier (102) may have an input terminal coupled to receive a voltage indicative of a sensed parameter of a component (20) of the turbine engine. A hybrid load circuitry may be... Agent:

20130002359 - Amplifier with high power supply noise rejection: An amplifier with high power supply rejection is disclosed. In an exemplary implementation, an amplifier includes a first stage configured to receive a signal to be amplified, a second stage comprising an input transistor coupled to the first stage, and further comprising at least one additional transistor, and a voltage... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated