US 7,548,110 B2
Power amplifier and method for reducing common noise of power amplifier
Chung-Wei Lin, Hsinchu County (Taiwan)
Assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu (Taiwan)
Filed on Oct. 23, 2007, as Appl. No. 11/876,779.
Claims priority of application No. 96129380 A (TW), filed on Aug. 09, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2009/0039957 A1, Feb. 12, 2009
Int. Cl. H03F 3/38 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 330—10  [330/149; 330/251; 330/207 A] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A power amplifier, comprising:
a delta-sigma modulation module, receiving a differential-mode input signal, integrating and quantizing an error between the differential-mode input signal and an output signal, and generating a first mean signal and a second mean signal;
a differential programmable dead-time control module, coupled to the delta-sigma modulation module, the differential programmable dead-time control module receiving the first mean signal and generating a first signal and a second signal corresponding to the first mean signal through logic calculation, and the differential programmable dead-time control module receiving the second mean signal and generating a third signal and a fourth signal corresponding to the second mean signal through logic calculation and the differential programmable dead-time control module adjusts dead-time corresponding to the first mean signal and the second mean signal respectively; and
an output stage module, coupled to the differential programmable dead-time control module, the output stage module being controlled by the first signal, the second signal, the third signal, and the fourth signal to generate the output signal to drive a load.