Design of mobile phone RF power control loop Print Version Page, 1/4 Technical Library To print this article, select \"File\" and then \"Print\" from your browser menu. Design of mobile phone RF power control loop Design column, RF/Wireless Design Online time: February 15, 2004 In order to ensure the capacity and interoperability of the system, the GSM system specification has strict regulations on the accuracy, flatness, transmission spectrum purity and out-of-band spurious signals of mobile phone transmission power, and puts forward high requirements on the design of mobile phone RF power amplifier power control loop. This article introduces the power feedback control method and the current detection feedback control method, and gives detailed design steps for the first method. The GSM system is a time division multiple access (TDMA) system. Different users are separated on the time axis. Each user receives or sends information in a specific time interval (time slot). This feature of the TDMA system greatly improves the spectrum utilization, but also poses a great challenge to the design of the mobile station RF front end. The GSM system requires the transmitter of the mobile station to work in burst mode, that is, it is turned on to send information only in the specified time slot, and is turned off in other time slots. This switch working state will cause a large number of spurious components in the transmission spectrum, which seriously affects other users. In order to ensure system capacity and interoperability, requirements must be put forward for the indicators of the mobile station transmitter, which are stipulated in the ETSI GSM 11.10 series of specifications. In order to meet the requirements of the specifications, the rising and falling edges of the mobile station transmitter signal cannot be too steep, but must be a slow rise and fall process, as shown in Figure 1. The top and bottom two curves in the figure are called power-time templates. During the test, the power-time relationship curve of the transmitted signal in each time slot cannot exceed this template, otherwise the transmission spectrum purity will not meet the requirements, or the transmission information will be lost. The middle curve is the gain control voltage of the RF power amplifier, which is given by the system control unit to control the RF output power. This requires accurate power control of the RF power amplifier in the transmitter. At the same time, the GSM mobile station transmitter must be able to operate at several power levels according to system requirements, which also requires accurate power control. For this purpose, a feedback control loop must be used. There are many ways to achieve power control, and the most commonly used one is output power detection feedback control...
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