Patent ID: 7675385

Claim:
An N-way power divider, comprising: a power input; a plurality of power outputs, wherein a number of said plurality of power outputs are active and the number of active power outputs have a power output impedance; a switched power divider comprising: a divider input; and a plurality of divider outputs, each of said plurality of divider outputs coupled to one of said plurality of power outputs; wherein said switched power divider is configurable to provide power from said divider input to any number of said plurality of power outputs; and a switched transformer including a transformer input coupled to said power input and a transformer output coupled to said divider input, wherein said switched transformer provides power with a power impedance from said power input to said divider input and said switched transformer is configurable to transform the power impedance of the power to the power output impedance of the number of active power outputs; wherein each power output of said plurality of power outputs is active when said switched power divider is configured to provide power to the power output from said divider input, the switched transformer further comprises: a plurality of switched capacitors coupled to said transformer input and said transformer output, wherein each one of said plurality of switched capacitors is configurable between a first state where power passes from said transformer input into said one of said plurality of switched capacitors and a second state where power does not pass from said transformer input into said one of said plurality of switched capacitors and said switched transformer is configurable to transform the power impedance of the power to the power output impedance of the number of active power outputs by configuring said plurality of said switched capacitors between the first state and the second state.