Patent ID: 7869776

Claim:
A transmitter system for regulating a transmission power level of a wireless signal in a mobile communication device, the transmitter system comprising: a frame generator for generating a signal, and a data rate and signal format indicator associated with the signal; a reference power source for generating a desired reference power level; an amplifier controller for directly mapping the data rate and signal format indicator and the desired reference power level to an amplifier control signal value in accordance with known non-linearities associated with at least one stage of an amplifier that manifests a signal dependent gain, the amplifier controller generating an amplifier control signal in accordance with the amplifier control signal value and independent of the transmission power level of the wireless signal; a wireless transmitter including the amplifier, the amplifier for receiving the signal from the frame generator and for amplifying the signal in accordance with the amplifier control signal to regulate the transmission power level of the wireless signal.