Patent ID: 7515648

Claim:
A wireless communication apparatus, comprising: a baseband circuit; a transmitter that uses a baseband signal outputted by the baseband circuit as an input signal, modulates the input signal by quadrature modulation, amplifies the modulation signal, and outputs a transmitted signal; an antenna that transmits and receives a radio wave; a receiver that demodulates a received signal from the antenna by quadrature demodulation, and outputs a baseband signal that corresponds to the received signal; a selector that supplies the transmitted signal outputted by the transmitter to the antenna, and supplies the received signal from the antenna to the receiver; and a local signal generation circuit that generates a local signal for use in the quadrature modulation performed by the transmitter and the quadrature demodulation performed by the receiver, wherein the transmitter comprises: a first quadrature modulator that modulates the input signal by quadrature modulation into a signal in which a frequency band is included in a first frequency band; a first amplifier that amplifies a modulation signal outputted by the first quadrature modulator; a second amplifier that amplifies an output signal of the first amplifier; a second quadrature modulator that modulates the input signal by quadrature modulation into a signal in which a frequency band is included in a second frequency band; a third amplifier that amplifies a modulation signal outputted by the second quadrature modulator; and a fourth amplifier that amplifies an output signal of the third amplifier by electric power, wherein each of the first amplifier and the third amplifier performs a limiting operation when a modulation format is constant envelope modulation, and performs a linear operation when the modulation format is non-constant envelope modulation, wherein a gain of each of the first amplifier and the third amplifier is controllable independently of a switching operation between the limiting operation and the linear operation, wherein, when operating in the first frequency band, the first quadrature modulator, the first amplifier, and the second amplifier enter an operating state and the second quadrature modulator, the third amplifier, and the fourth amplifier enter a non-operating state, and wherein, when operating in the second frequency band, the first quadrature modulator, the first amplifier, and the second amplifier enter the non-operating state, and the second quadrature modulator, the third amplifier, and the fourth amplifier enter the operating state.