Plural Modulator Tubes Patents (Class 332/143)
  • Patent number: 8319570
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and apparatus for generating, in an envelope tracking modulator of a mobile radio transmission apparatus, a pulse width modulated, PWM, signal representing a time-varying signal, the method comprising, for each time cycle: a) generating a rising ramp from a first voltage level to a second voltage level; b) generating a falling ramp from the second voltage level to the first voltage level; c) detecting a rising slope of the time-varying signal crossing the falling ramp and responsive thereto if the PWM signal is at the first voltage level, transitioning the PWM signal to the second voltage signal; d) detecting a falling slope of the time-varying signal crossing the rising ramp, and responsive thereto if the PWM signal is at the second voltage level, transitioning the PWM signal to the first voltage signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2012
    Assignee: Nujira Limited
    Inventor: Martin Paul Wilson