Patent ID: 7912145

Claim:
A communication device comprising: a baseband symbol generator; a dipole antenna; and a power amplifier coupled to said dipole antenna, the power amplifier being configured to receive a first output of said baseband symbol generator from a signal path that includes a fractional-N sigma-delta modulator having a pre-emphasis filter, to receive a second output of the baseband symbol generator, and to amplify the first output with a gain that is controlled by a varying amplitude of the second output; wherein said fractional-N sigma-delta modulator includes at least: a sigma-delta converter coupled to the pre-emphasis filter; and a fractional-N phase locked loop unit coupled to an output of said sigma-delta converter, wherein a transfer function of said pre-emphasis filter is to be optimized according to predefined optimization criteria, and wherein said optimization criteria are related to an input to said pre-emphasis filter, and are further related to an input to a voltage controlled oscillator of the fractional-N phase locked loop unit and not to an output to the voltage controlled oscillator of the fractional-N phase locked loop.