Patent ID: 7627060

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a front-end circuitry to generate a baseband signal based at least in part on a received communication signal, with the baseband signal having a signal envelope reflecting at least one nonlinearity of the front-end circuitry, wherein the front-end circuitry includes: an amplifier to receive the received communication signal and to generate an amplified communication signal in response to the received communication signal, with the amplifier having the at least one nonlinearity, wherein the amplifier includes at least one amplifier transistor; and a mixer coupled to the amplifier to generate the baseband signal based in part on the amplified communication signal, wherein the mixer includes at least one mixer transistor; and a digital baseband circuitry, coupled to a gate of the transistor of a selected one of the amplifier and the mixer, to generate an envelope compensation signal based at least in part on the baseband signal and provide the envelope compensation signal to bias the selected one of the amplifier and the mixer to reduce the at least one nonlinearity.