Envelope tracking current bias circuit and power amplifying device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10476441-B2
Application number	US-201815985995-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 22, 2018
Priority date	Oct 17, 2017
Publication date	Nov 12, 2019
Grant date	Nov 12, 2019

Abstract

An envelope tracking (ET) current bias circuit includes a rectifying circuit, a phase compensation circuit, and a voltage/current conversion circuit. The rectifying circuit is configured to detect an envelope voltage from a radio frequency (RF) signal. The phase compensation circuit is configured to compensate for a phase of the envelope voltage in which the phase thereof is delayed in the rectifying circuit to output a phase compensated enveloped voltage. The voltage/current conversion circuit is configured to convert the phase compensated envelope voltage into an ET bias current.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An envelope tracking (ET) current bias circuit, comprising:
a rectifying circuit configured to detect an envelope voltage from a radio frequency (RF) signal;
a phase compensation circuit configured to compensate for a phase of the envelope voltage in which the phase thereof is delayed in the rectifying circuit to output a phase compensated enveloped voltage using a phase compensation value varied responsive to a first control signal; and
a voltage/current conversion circuit configured to convert the phase compensated envelope voltage into an ET bias current.

2. The envelope tracking current bias circuit of claim 1 , wherein the phase compensation circuit comprises:
a phase compensator configured to comprise first to n-th phase compensators that sequentially compensate for the phase of the envelope voltage from the rectifying circuit using a predetermined phase compensation value; and
a selector configured to select one of first to n-th output voltages output from the first to n-th phase compensators to output the selected output voltage to the voltage/current conversion circuit.

3. The envelope tracking current bias circuit of claim 2 , wherein each of the first to n-th phase compensators is configured to vary the phase compensation value for compensating for the phase of the envelope voltage output from the rectifying circuit responsive to the first control signal.

4. An envelope tracking (ET) current bias circuit, comprising:
a rectifying circuit configured to detect an envelope voltage from a radio frequency (RF) signal;
a phase compensation circuit configured to compensate for a phase of the envelope voltage in which the phase thereof is delayed in the rectifying circuit to output a phase compensated enveloped voltage; and
a voltage/current conversion circuit configured to convert the phase compensated envelope voltage into an ET bias current,
wherein the phase compensation circuit comprises:
a phase leading circuit configured to compensate for the phase of the envelope voltage from the rectifying circuit using a phase compensation value varied responsive to a first control signal to output the phase compensated envelope voltage; and
an amplification circuit configured to amplify the phase compensated envelope voltage output from the phase leading circuit to compensate for amplitude of a signal reduced by the phase leading circuit.

5. The envelope tracking current bias circuit of claim 4 , wherein the phase leading circuit comprises:
a capacitor circuit connected between an input terminal and an output terminal of the phase leading circuit;
a first resistor circuit connected to the capacitor circuit in parallel; and
a second resistor circuit connected between the output terminal of the phase leading circuit and a ground and having a resistance value varied responsive to the first control signal.

6. The envelope tracking current bias circuit of claim 4 , wherein the amplification circuit comprises:
an operational amplifier having an inverting input terminal and a non-inverting input terminal receiving the phase compensated envelope voltage input from the phase leading circuit;
a third resistor circuit connected between an output terminal and the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier; and
a fourth resistor circuit connected between the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and a ground and having a resistance value varied responsive to the first control signal.

7. A power amplifying device, comprising:
a power amplifier configured to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal;
an envelope tracking (ET) current bias circuit configured to generate an ET bias current to provide the generated ET bias current to the power amplifier, and the ET current bias circuit comprising:
a rectifying circuit configured to detect an envelope voltage from the RF signal;
a phase compensation circuit configured to compensate for a phase of the envelope voltage in which the phase is delayed in the rectifying circuit to output a phase compensated enveloped voltage using a phase compensation value varied responsive to a first control signal; and
a voltage/current conversion circuit configured to convert the phase compensated envelope voltage input from the phase compensation circuit into an ET bias current; and

a VCC circuit configured to generate a source voltage to provide the generated source voltage to the power amplifier.

8. The power amplifying device of claim 7 , wherein the phase compensation circuit comprises:
a phase compensator configured to comprise first to n-th phase compensators that sequentially compensate for the phase of the envelope voltage from the rectifying circuit using a predetermined phase compensation value; and
a selector configured to select one of first to n-th output voltages output from the first to n-th phase compensators to output the selected output voltage to the voltage/current conversion circuit.

9. The power amplifying device of claim 8 , wherein each of the first to n-th phase compensators is configured to vary the phase compensation value for compensating for the phase of the envelope voltage output from the rectifying circuit responsive to the first control signal.

10. The power amplifying device of claim 7 , wherein the phase compensation circuit comprises:
a phase leading circuit configured to compensate for the phase of the envelope voltage from the rectifying circuit using the phase compensation value varied responsive to the first control signal to output the phase compensated envelope voltage; and
an amplification circuit configured to amplify the phase compensated envelope voltage output from the phase leading circuit to compensate for amplitude of a signal reduced by the phase leading circuit.

11. The power amplifying device of claim 10 , wherein the phase leading circuit comprises:
a capacitor circuit connected between an input terminal and an output terminal of the phase leading circuit;
a first resistor circuit connected to the capacitor circuit in parallel; and
a second resistor circuit connected between the output terminal of the phase leading circuit and a ground and having a resistance value varied responsive to the first control signal.

12. The power amplifying device of claim 10 , wherein the amplification circuit comprises:
an operational amplifier having an inverting input terminal and a non-inverting input terminal receiving the phase compensated envelope voltage input from the phase leading circuit;
a third resistor circuit connected between an output terminal and the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier; and
a fourth resistor circuit connected between the non-inverting input terminal of the operational amplifier and a ground and having a resistance value varied responsive to the first control signal.

13. The power amplifying device of claim 7 , wherein the rectifying circuit comprises:
a first rectifying circuit configured to detect the envelope of the RF signal and output an envelope detection signal comprising a first direct current (DC) offset voltage;
a second rectifying circuit configured to output a second DC offset voltage corresponding to the first DC offset voltage; and
a first operation circuit configured to output an envelope signal in which the first DC offset voltage is reduced as a function of the envelope detection signal and the second DC offset voltage.

14. The power amplifying device of claim 13 , wherein the voltage/current conversion circuit comprises:
a first V/I conversion circuit configured to convert a reference voltage into a DC current and ad

Assignees

• Samsung Electro Mech

Inventors

• Jo Byeong Hak
• Ha Jong Ok
• Kim Jeong Hoon

Classifications

• H03F2200/102

  A non-specified detector of a signal envelope being used in an amplifying circuit · CPC title

• H03F2200/451

  the amplifier being a radio frequency amplifier · CPC title

• H03F3/245

  with semiconductor devices only · CPC title

• H03F1/0222 Primary

  by using a signal derived from the input signal · CPC title

• H03F3/21

  with semiconductor devices only {(H03F3/245 takes precedence)} · CPC title