TRANSMISSION CIRCUIT AND COMMUNICATION APPARATUS USING POLAR MODULATION METHOD

摘要

Provided is a transmission circuit which can adjust a difference between signal delay amounts in the amplitude path and the phase path with a low power consumption. An amplitude modulation section 15 amplitude-modulates a phase modulation signal outputted from a phase modulation section 14 with a voltage control signal provided by a regulator 13 to generate a transmission signal for an output of an antenna. Similarly, a feedback signal generation section 16 amplitude-modulates the phase modulation signal with the voltage control signal to generate a feedback signal FB. The signal FB is fed back to a delay adjustment section 12 and used for calculating and adjusting the difference between the signal delay amounts in the amplitude path and the phase path. The feedback signal generation section 16 is attained by a power amplifier having the same configuration as the amplitude modulation section 15 and a smaller circuit scale.