Download or read book Wideband Dynamic Biasing of Power Amplifiers for Wireless Handheld Applications written by Jau-Horng Chen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work will contribute to the development of high efficiency, small-sized multi-mode linear PAs for battery-operated wireless handheld devices.
Download or read book Bandwidth and Efficiency Enhancement in Radio Frequency Power Amplifiers for Wireless Transmitters written by Karun Rawat and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on broadband power amplifier design for wireless communication. Nonlinear model embedding is described as a powerful tool for designing broadband continuous Class-J and continuous class F power amplifiers. The authors also discuss various techniques for extending bandwidth of load modulation based power amplifiers, such as Doherty power amplifier and Chireix outphasing amplifiers. The book also covers recent trends on digital as well as analog techniques to enhance bandwidth and linearity in wireless transmitters. Presents latest trends in designing broadband power amplifiers; Covers latest techniques for using nonlinear model embedding in designing power amplifiers based on waveform engineering; Describes the latest techniques for extending bandwidth of load modulation based power amplifiers such as Doherty power amplifier and Chireix outphasing amplifiers; Includes coverage of hybrid analog/digital predistortion as wideband solution for wireless transmitters; Discusses recent trends on on-chip power amplifier design with GaN /GaAs MMICs for high frequency applications.
Download or read book Highly Linear Integrated Wideband Amplifiers written by Henrik Sjoland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-01-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly Linear Integrated Wideband Amplifiers: Design and Analysis Techniques for Frequencies from Audio to RF deals with the complicated issues involved in the design of high-linearity integrated wideband amplifiers for different operating frequencies. The book demonstrates these principles using a number of high-performance designs. New topologies for high linearity are presented, as well as a novel method for estimating the intermodulation distortion of a wideband signal. One of the most exciting results presented is an enhanced feedback configuration called feedback boosting that is capable of very low distortion. Also important is a statistical method for relating the intermodulation distortion of a wideband signal to the total harmonic distortion (THD) of a single tone. The THD, as opposed to the intermodulation distortion of the wideband signal, is easy to measure and use as a design parameter. Three different applications where high linearity is needed are identified, namely audio power amplifiers, wideband IF amplifiers and RF power amplifiers. For these applications high-performance integrated amplifier designs using novel topologies are presented together with measurement results. The audio amplifiers are built in CMOS and are capable of driving 8Omega loudspeaker loads directly without using any external components. One of the designs can operate on a supply voltage down to 1.5V. Both bipolar and CMOS wideband IF amplifiers are built; they are fully differential and have linearity from DC to 20 MHz. Finally, an RF power amplifier is built in CMOS, without using inductors, in order to investigate what performance can be achieved without them. Highly Linear Integrated Wideband Amplifiers: Design and Analysis Techniques for Frequencies from Audio to RF is an excellent reference for researchers and designers of integrated amplifiers, and may be used as a text for advanced courses on the topic.
Download or read book Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets written by Laurent Leyssenne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets is intended to designers and researchers who have to tackle the efficiency/linearity trade-off in modern RF transmitters so as to extend their battery lifetime. High data rate 3G/4G standards feature broad channel bandwidths, high dynamic range and critical envelope variations which generally forces the power amplifier (PA) to operate in a low efficiency “backed-off” regime. Classic efficiency enhancement techniques such as Envelope Elimination and Restoration reveal to be little compliant with handset-dedicated PA implementation due to their channel-bandwidth-limited behavior and their increased die area consumption and/or bill-of-material. The architectural advances that are proposed in this book circumvent these issues since they put the stress on low die-area /low power-consumption control circuitry. The advantages of silicon over III/V technologies are highlighted by several analogue signal processing techniques that can be implemented on-chip with a power amplifier. System-level and transistor-level simulations are combined to illustrate the principles of the proposed power adaptive solutions. Measurement on BICMOS demonstrators allows validating the functionality of dynamic linearity/efficiency management. In Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets, PA designers will find a review of technologies, architectures and theoretical formalisms (Volterra series...) that are traditionally related to PA design. Specific issues that one encounters in power amplifiers (such as thermal / memory effects, stability, VSWR sensitivity...) and the way of overcoming them are also extensively considered throughout this book.
Download or read book High Efficiency Load Modulation Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications written by Zhancang Wang and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge resource presents a complete and systematic overview of the practical design considerations of radio frequency (RF) high efficiency load modulation power amplifiers (PA) for modern wireless communications for 4G and beyond. It provides comprehensive insight into all aspects of load modulation PA design and optimization not only covering design approaches specifically for passive and active load modulation operation but also hybrid with dynamic supply modulation and digital signal processing algorithms required for performance enhancement. Passive load impedance tuner design, dynamic load modulation PA, active load modulation PA and Doherty PA design for efficiently enhancement are explained. Readers find practical guidance into load modulation PA design for bandwidth extension, including video bandwidth enhancement techniques, broadband dynamic load amplifiers, topology selection, design procedures, and network output. This book presents the evolution and integration of classical load modulation PA topologies in order to meet new challenges in the field.
Download or read book High Efficiency Wideband Envelope Tracking Power Amplifier for Next generation Wireless Communications written by Myoungbo Kwak and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest generation of smart devices deployed in cellular networks has created explosive growth in network data traffic, and the increasing demand for broadband services with higher data rates, require higher peak to average power ratio (PAPR) with wider bandwidth. One of the challenges in the conventional power amplifiers (PAs) with fixed supply voltage, is the degraded efficiency and generated heats at a large back-off to meet tight linearity requirements. This dissertation presents high efficiency wideband envelope tracking power amplifiers for 2.1 GHz micro base-stations and 2.5 GHz wireless mobile applications. By superimposing the envelope signal at the drain such that the RF amplifier operates consistently closer to saturation, the overall efficiency is improved and the generated heat is reduced dramatically. In the first part of the dissertation, a high performance BiCMOS DMOS monolithic envelope amplifier for micro-base station power amplifiers is presented. Due to the low breakdown voltage of the CMOS transistors, the high voltage envelope amplifier has been implemented with discrete components with high voltage process. Compared to these discrete solutions, an integrated circuits implementation for the envelope amplifier brings many benefits. The design of monolithic envelope amplifiers for high voltage (VDD = 15 V) envelope tracking applications, and the design techniques to solve the reliability issues with thin gate oxide is described. The overall envelope tracking system employing a GaN-HEMT RF transistor, and fully integrated high voltage envelope amplifier with a 0.35[mu]m BiCMOS DMOS process, is demonstrated. In the second part, a high-efficiency wideband envelope tracking power amplifier for mobile LTE applications will be presented. The CMOS envelope amplifier with hybrid linear and switcher is designed in a 150 nm CMOS process. The envelope amplifier employs direct sensing of the linear stage current to reduce the propagation delay in the switcher. The strategy is demonstrated to improve the efficiency of the complete envelope tracking power amplifier system. The resulting performance of envelope tracking system employing a GaAs HBT-based RF PA with a 5 MHz LTE signal input demonstrated state-of-the-art efficiency while meet the linearity requirement.
Download or read book Linear CMOS RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Applications written by Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances in electronics have pushed mankind to create devices, ranging from - credible gadgets to medical equipment to spacecraft instruments. More than that, modern society is getting used to—if not dependent on—the comfort, solutions, and astonishing amount of information brought by these devices. One ?eld that has continuously bene?tted from those advances is the radio frequency integrated c- cuit (RFIC) design, which in its turn has promoted countless bene?ts to the mankind as a payback. Wireless communications is one prominent example of what the - vances in electronics have enabled and their consequences to our daily life. How could anyone back in the eighties think of the possibilities opened by the wireless local area networks (WLANs) that can be found today in a host of places, such as public libraries, coffee shops, trains, to name just a few? How can a youngster, who lives this true WLAN experience nowadays, imagine a world without it? This book dealswith the design oflinearCMOS RF PowerAmpli?ers(PAs). The RF PA is a very important part of the RF transceiver, the device that enables wireless communications. Two important aspects that are key to keep the advances in RF PA design at an accelerate pace are treated: ef?ciency enhancement and frequen- tunable capability. For this purpose, the design of two different integrated circuits realizedina0. 11μmtechnologyispresented,eachoneaddressingadifferentaspect. With respect to ef?ciency enhancement, the design of a dynamic supply RF power ampli?er is treated, making up the material of Chaps. 2 to 4.
Download or read book High Efficiency Linear Envelope Tracking and Envelope Elimination and Restoration Power Amplifier for WLAN OFDM Applications written by Feipeng Wang and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High efficiency radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) are critical in portable battery-operated wireless communication systems because they can dominate the power consumption. Linear power amplifier is required for envelope modulated signal. Traditionally, linear power amplifiers are implemented by "backing-off" the Class-A or Class-AB PA. However for a high peak-to-average (PAR) signal, the average efficiency is much lower than the peak efficiency, which is well down as the inherent trade-off between linearity and efficiency. This dissertation focuses on Envelope Elimination and Restoration (EER) and Envelope Tracking (ET) efficiency enhancement techniques to improve the PA average efficiency for high PAR signal. The EER and ET PA structures are investigated. Wideband ET and "hybrid" EER structures are proposed for WLAN 802.11g signal at 20MHz signal. Two major challenges of the wideband EER and ET PAs are investigated: 1) An adaptive time-alignment algorithm was proposed to calibrate the time-mismatch in wideband EER and ET systems; (2) A high efficiency wideband envelope amplifier is designed for wideband EER and wideband ET applications. A monolithic wideband high efficiency ET power amplifier is designed and implemented for WLAN 802.11g applications in IBM SiGe BiCMOS technology. Digital pre-distortion was implemented to reduce the EVM of the amplifier. The measured overall power-added efficiency of the amplifier is 28% at 20 dBm (100mW) output power.
Download or read book Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications written by Aleksandar Tasic and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2009-05-16 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book originated from a Special Session on Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications that was presented at the 2005 InternationalSymposiumon Circuits and Systems, which was then followed by two Special Issues bearing the same title that appeared in the March and April 2008 issues of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems – Part II: Express Briefs. Out of a large number of great contributions, we have selected those tting best the book format based on their quality. We would like to thank all the authors, the reviewers of the Transactions on Circuits and Systems – Part II, and the reviewers of the nal book material for their efforts in creating this manuscript. We also thank the Springer Editorial Staff for their support in putting together all the good work. We hope that this book will provide you, the reader, with new insights into Circuits and Systems for Future Generations of Wireless Communications.
Download or read book Wireless Technologies written by Krzysztof Iniewski and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced concepts for wireless technologies present a vision of technology that is embedded in our surroundings and practically invisible. From established radio techniques like GSM, 802.11 or Bluetooth to more emerging technologies, such as Ultra Wide Band and smart dust motes, a common denominator for future progress is the underlying integrated circuit technology. Wireless Technologies responds to the explosive growth of standard cellular radios and radically different wireless applications by presenting new architectural and circuit solutions engineers can use to solve modern design problems. This reference addresses state-of-the art CMOS design in the context of emerging wireless applications, including 3G/4G cellular telephony, wireless sensor networks, and wireless medical application. Written by top international experts specializing in both the IC industry and academia, this carefully edited work uncovers new design opportunities in body area networks, medical implants, satellite communications, automobile radar detection, and wearable electronics. The book is divided into three sections: wireless system perspectives, chip architecture and implementation issues, and devices and technologies used to fabricate wireless integrated circuits. Contributors address key issues in the development of future silicon-based systems, such as scale of integration, ultra-low power dissipation, and the integration of heterogeneous circuit design style and processes onto one substrate. Wireless sensor network systems are now being applied in critical applications in commerce, healthcare, and security. This reference, which contains 25 practical and scientifically rigorous articles, provides the knowledge communications engineers need to design innovative methodologies at the circuit and system level.
Download or read book Feedforward Amplifiers for Wideband Communication Systems written by Jon Legarda and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-11-10 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been possible thanks to the research carried out in the field of the linearization techniques applied to digital communication systems, particularly to those with high spectral efficient modulation techniques. It merges in the need of developing frequency efficient modulations with widespread codification techniques. The book puts into practice the Feedforward linearization technique, aimed at improving either the linearity or efficiency parameters of power amplifiers.
Download or read book Wideband GaN Microwave Power Amplifiers with Class G Supply Modulation written by Nikolai Wolff and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The continuous and rapidly growing demand for mobile communication access led to a major increase in the number of base stations worldwide to provide sufficient coverage and quality of service. As a consequence, mobile communication networks have become a significant contributor to global energy consumption. Several advanced topologies for efficiency improvement of RF power amplifiers have been developed. Modulating the amplifier’s supply voltage according to the variation of the envelope signal is one of the most promising concepts. This topology is investigated here, with an architecture that switches the supply voltage of the power amplifier in discrete levels with a class-G supply modulator. The thesis addresses comprehensively all aspects of class-G supply modulation. Several prototype designs were realized to validate the theory and to gain experience on the influence of the corresponding parameters. These include the discrete supply voltage levels, the switching thresholds, and the interface between the RF PA and the class-G supply modulator. Efforts both on improving the RF power amplifiers and developing several class-G supply modulators were also involved. This work covers the progress up to a PA module that provides an instantaneous modulation bandwidth of 120 MHz and achieves better performance than state-of-the art continuous supply modulation systems. Class-G supply modulated RF power amplifiers based on gallium nitride technology exhibit a strong nonlinear behavior, therefore linearization is required. For this purpose, the linearization with digital predistortion based on behavioral models is optimized for the class-G topology and a novel predistorter model is developed and analyzed.
Download or read book Power Amplifier Design written by Noble Publishing Corporation and published by Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation This design guide collects 21 articles published in between 1989 and 2001, enabling readers to review classic theory as well as stay abreast of new technology. Coverage includes the specification, analysis, and measurement of distortion from various perspectives; predistortion techniques; and practical designs, including the magnetron, biasing LDMOS FETs for linear operation, the RF power transistor, and a push-pull 300-watt amplifier for 81.36 MHZ. Each article includes references. There is no index. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Highly Linear Integrated Wideband Amplifiers written by Henrik Sjoland and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-31 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development of High Efficiency Power Amplifiers for Emerging Wireless Applications written by Jeffery Alan Curtis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Ph.D. research, several Ka-Band power amplifiers are designed and built for use in next generation mobile broadband communication systems. The Doherty power amplifier architecture is demonstrated as a possible solution to improving the back-off efficiency of millimeter-wave power amplifiers, since many mobile broadband communication systems employ modulation formats with large peak-to-average power ratios. This research also demonstrates some novel techniques to improve upon the Doherty architecture for millimeter-wave power amplifier design. Two fully integrated Ka-Band Doherty power amplifiers are designed and developed using a 0.15-[mu]m GaAs pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) process. The first uses the classic Doherty configuration with some previously developed modifications to resolve some practical issues and achieves a measured small signal gain of 10.3 dB, measured output power at 1-dB compression point (P1dB) of 25.1 dBm, measured peak power added efficiency (PAE) of 38%, and measured PAE of 27% at 6-dB back-off power. The bias network of this same Doherty was then modified by short circuiting some resistors in the gate bias path and it then achieves a measured small signal gain of 10.5 dB, measured output power at 1-dB compression point (P1dB) of 26.9 dBm, measured peak power added efficiency of 42%, and measured PAE of 32% at 6-dB back-off power. The second Doherty amplifier uses a novel load-pull based Doherty technique accounting for nonideal back-off impedance in millimeter-wave power amplifiers and achieves a measured small signal gain of 9 dB, simulated output power at 1-dB compression point (P1dB) of 29 dBm, simulated peak power added efficiency of 46%, and simulated PAE of 35% at 6-dB back-off power. The performance achieved with these power amplifiers makes them a promising candidate for use in next generation mobile broadband communication systems.
Download or read book Nanometer CMOS RFICs for Mobile TV Applications written by Ahmed A. Youssef and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanometer CMOS RFICs for Mobile TV Applications focuses on how to break the trade-off between power consumption and performance (linearity and noise figure) by optimizing the mobile TV front-end dynamic range in three hierarchical levels: the intrinsic MOSFET level, the circuit level, and the architectural level. It begins by discussing the fundamental concepts of MOSFET dynamic range, including nonlinearity and noise. It then moves to the circuit level introducing the challenges associated with designing wide-dynamic range, variable-gain, broadband low-noise amplifiers (LNAs). The book gives a detailed analysis of a new noise-canceling technique that helps CMOS LNAs achieve a sub - 2 dB wideband noise figure. Lastly, the book deals with the front-end dynamic range optimization process from the systems perspective by introducing the active and passive automatic gain control (AGC) mechanism.
Download or read book Wideband Active Load Modulation in RF Power Amplifiers written by Christian Karl Musolff and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
