Patents Represented by Attorney Steven K. Holland & Hart LLP Barton
  • Patent number: 6111464
    Abstract: An LDMOS RF amplifier having a bias voltage generated through feedback around an LDMOS sense transistor has a sense transistor, a current sensing circuit that monitors current in the sense transistor, and a bias voltage generation circuit controlled by an output of the current sensing circuit. The bias voltage from the bias voltage generation circuit is applied to the gates of both the sense transistor and an LDMOS RF power amplifier transistor. An AC-coupled RF input signal is applied through typical impedance-matching circuitry to the gate of the RF power amplifier transistor, and an AC-coupled output signal is tapped from, and power applied to, the drain of the RF power amplifier transistor through impedance matching circuitry of the type known in the art.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Networks Oy
    Inventor: Steven J. Laureanti