Download or read book Design Techniques for High Efficiency Highly Linear RF Power Amplifer written by Shantha Murthy Prem Swaroop and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keywords: digital predistortion, power supply modulation, Class D, power amplifier, PAE, ACPR, EVM, crest factor reduction, efficiency enhancement.
Download or read book Highly Linear Integrated Wideband Amplifiers written by Henrik Sjöland and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 171 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 Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design written by Steve C. Cripps and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-anticipated volume builds on the author's best selling and classic work, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House, 1999), offering experienced engineers a more in-depth understanding of the theory and design of RF power amplifiers. An invaluable reference tool for RF, digital and system level designers, the book includes discussions on the most critical topics for professionals in the field, including envelope power management schemes and linearization.
Download or read book Design Techniques for High Efficiency Highly Linear RF Power Amplifer written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power consumption is a key parameter to be considered in designing wireless systems, especially for cellular applications. Lower power consumption by designing highly power efficient transceiver circuits is extremely desirable as it results in lower battery size, higher talk time, lower heat generation and lower cost. Very high spectral efficiency is sought after in present day communication systems. In order to achieve very high data rates, sophisticated non-constant envelope modulation schemes are used. This places very stringent requirements on the transceiver design. One of the key requirements is spectral linearity or purity, wherein the transmitter signal spectrum has to be clean within the signal bandwidth and outside the signal bandwidth as specified by FCC regulations for the wireless standard. Output RF power amplifier (PA) consumes most of the power in a transmitter and is the key to high efficiency transmitter design. This research focuses on novel techniques to maximize power efficiency of the RF power amplifier and at the same time having high spectral linearity to meet FCC specifications. This research attempts to achieve the goal of high efficiency and high linearity by two different methods - signal conditioning and smart circuit design. A new crest factor reduction (CFR) technique to developed to reduce peak to average ratio (PAR) of high PAR signals. Trade-offs between the in-band and out-of-band distortion is analyzed for maximum reduction in PAR of the signal. A novel high efficiency linear transmitter architecture based on power quadrature modulation is proposed. High efficiency differential class D power supply modulator is designed in Jazz 0.18 um process. A lookup table based digital predistortion (DPD) engine is developed in MATLAB to improve linearity performance in RF power amplifier. A DPD algorithm is demonstrated to improve the distortion performance of a Gallium Nitride RF PA at a particular output power level.
Download or read book Advanced Design Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers written by Anna N. Rudiakova and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-09-09 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advanced Design Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers provides a deep analysis of theoretical aspects, modelling, and design strategies of RF high-efficiency power amplifiers. The book can be used as a guide by scientists and engineers dealing with the subject and as a text book for graduate and postgraduate students. Although primarily intended for skilled readers, it provides an excellent quick start for beginners.
Download or read book Partitioning Design Approach for the Reliable Design of Highly Efficient RF Power Amplifiers written by Roshanak Lehna and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2017-11-13 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The modern wireless communication systems require modulated signals with wide modulation bandwidth. This, in turns, requires signals with very high dynamic range and peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). This means that the amplifier in the base-station has to work at a power back-off as large as the dynamic range of the signal, so that the amplifier has a high linearity in this region. For the standard single-stage amplifiers, this large power back-off reduces the efficiency dramatically. In this work, a three-way Doherty power amplifier (DPA) aiming at high power efficiency within a dynamic range of 9.5 dB, is designed and fabricated using partitioning design approach. The partitioning design approach decomposes a complex design task into small-sized, well-controllable, and verifiable subcircuits. This advanced straight forward method has shown very promising results. Using this design approach, a three-way DPA has been designed to demonstrate the advantages of this reliable design technique as well. Based on the design of a single-stage power amplifier and proposing a novel output power combiner, a 6 W three-way DPA has been designed which allows the mandatory load modulation principle in three-way DPA structures to be realized with simpler elements, whereas the design of a standard Doherty combiner would have been very challenging and not practical due to the extremely small value of its characteristic line impedance. The proposed combiner is calculated for a three-way DPA with 2-mm AlGaN/GaN-HEMTs. The simulation result shows a very good load modulation for the amplifier, which confirms the theoretical expectation for a three-way DPA. The efficiency of the designed 6 W three-way DPA at large back-off shows very promising values compared to recently reported amplifiers. The measured IMD3 products confirm the good linearity of the amplifier as well. Accordingly, the proposed power combiner and the design strategy are recommended to be used as the preferred option for designing three-way DPA structures with very high output power.
Download or read book Modeling and Design Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers written by Arvind Raghavan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Achieve higher levels of performance, integration, compactness, and cost-effectiveness in the design and modeling of radio-frequency (RF) power amplifiers RF power amplifiers are important components of any wireless transmitter, but are often the limiting factors in achieving better performance and lower cost in a wireless communication system—presenting the RF IC design community with many challenges. The next-generation technological advances presented in this book are the result of cutting-edge research in the area of large-signal device modeling and RF power amplifier design at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and have the potential to significantly address issues of performance and cost-effectiveness in this area. Richly complemented with hundreds of figures and equations, Modeling and Design Techniques for RF Power Amplifiers introduces and explores the most important topics related to RF power amplifier design under one concise cover. With a focus on efficiency enhancement techniques and the latest advances in the field, coverage includes: Device modeling for CAD Empirical modeling of bipolar devices Scalable modeling of RF MOSFETs Power amplifier IC design Power amplifier design in silicon Efficiency enhancement of RF power amplifiers The description of state-of-the-art techniques makes this book a valuable and handy reference for practicing engineers and researchers, while the breadth of coverage makes it an ideal text for graduate- and advanced undergraduate-level courses in the area of RF power amplifier design and modeling.
Download or read book High Efficiency RF and Microwave Solid State Power Amplifiers written by Paolo Colantonio and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-07-08 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to know how to design high efficiency RF and microwave solid state power amplifiers? Read this book to learn the main concepts that are fundamental for optimum amplifier design. Practical design techniques are set out, stating the pros and cons for each method presented in this text. In addition to novel theoretical discussion and workable guidelines, you will find helpful running examples and case studies that demonstrate the key issues involved in power amplifier (PA) design flow. Highlights include: Clarification of topics which are often misunderstood and misused, such as bias classes and PA nomenclatures. The consideration of both hybrid and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs). Discussions of switch-mode and current-mode PA design approaches and an explanation of the differences. Coverage of the linearity issue in PA design at circuit level, with advice on low distortion power stages. Analysis of the hot topic of Doherty amplifier design, plus a description of advanced techniques based on multi-way and multi-stage architecture solutions. High Efficiency RF and Microwave Solid State Power Amplifiers is: an ideal tutorial for MSc and postgraduate students taking courses in microwave electronics and solid state circuit/device design; a useful reference text for practising electronic engineers and researchers in the field of PA design and microwave and RF engineering. With its unique unified vision of solid state amplifiers, you won’t find a more comprehensive publication on the topic.
Download or read book RF CMOS Power Amplifiers Theory Design and Implementation written by Mona M. Hella and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-12-27 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RF CMOS Power Amplifiers: Theory Design and Implementation focuses on the design procedure and the testing issues of CMOS RF power amplifiers. This is the first monograph addressing RF CMOS power amplifier design for emerging wireless standards. The focus on power amplifiers for short is distance wireless personal and local area networks (PAN and LAN), however the design techniques are also applicable to emerging wide area networks (WAN) infrastructure using micro or pico cell networks. The book discusses CMOS power amplifier design principles and theory and describes the architectures and tardeoffs in designing linear and nonlinear power amplifiers. It then details design examples of RF CMOS power amplifiers for short distance wireless applications (e, g., Bluetooth, WLAN) including designs for multi-standard platforms. Design aspects of RF circuits in deep submicron CMOS are also discussed. RF CMOS Power Amplifiers: Theory Design and Implementation serves as a reference for RF IC design engineers and RD and R&D managers in industry, and for graduate students conducting research in wireless semiconductor IC design in general and with CMOS technology in particular.
Download or read book High Linearity CMOS RF Front End Circuits written by Yongwang Ding and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-02-08 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on high performance radio frequency integrated circuits (RF IC) design in CMOS. 1. Development of radio frequency ICs Wireless communications has been advancing rapidly in the past two decades. Many high performance systems have been developed, such as cellular systems (AMPS, GSM, TDMA, CDMA, W-CDMA, etc. ), GPS system (global po- tioning system) and WLAN (wireless local area network) systems. The rapid growth of VLSI technology in both digital circuits and analog circuits provides benefits for wireless communication systems. Twenty years ago not many p- ple could imagine millions of transistors in a single chip or a complete radio for size of a penny. Now not only complete radios have been put in a single chip, but also more and more functions have been realized by a single chip and at a much lower price. A radio transmits and receives electro-magnetic signals through the air. The signals are usually transmitted on high frequency carriers. For example, a t- ical voice signal requires only 30 Kilohertz bandwidth. When it is transmitted by a FM radio station, it is often carried by a frequency in the range of tens of megahertz to hundreds of megahertz. Usually a radio is categorized by its carrier frequency, such as 900 MHz radio or 5 GHz radio. In general, the higher the carrier frequency, the better the directivity, but the more difficult the radio design.
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 Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design written by Steve C. Cripps and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This much-anticipated volume builds on the author's popular work, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House, 1999), offering you a more in-depth understanding of the theory and design of RF power amplifiers. An invaluable reference tool for RF, digital and system level designers, the book enables you to efficiently design linear RF power amplifiers , and includes detailed discussions on envelope power management schemes and linearization techniques.
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 A Highly Efficient And Linear RF Power Amplifier For Mobile Terminal Applications written by Alireza Kheirkhahi and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radio frequency (RF) power amplifier (PA) is the last block in a transmitter chain. It amplifies the signal to the target power and drives the antenna. The power amplifier consumes the largest portion of the transmitter current consumption budget, and any power saving in this block will significantly improve the overall system efficiency. This is especially critical in battery-operated portable wireless communication systems such as cellular phones, PDA's and laptops. There is a trade-off between efficiency and linearity in power amplifiers. Non-switching power amplifiers efficiency increases as the output power increases, but so does the amplifier distortion. This is more problematic in modern wireless communication systems, where spectrally efficient and high data rate modulations are used and the linearity requirement is hard to meet. The two common approaches of backing-off the output power and adding a linearization scheme have their own challenges. The first one results in efficiency loss and the second one adds to the system complexity and has design challenges for wideband applications. The design of highly efficient and linear RF power amplifiers has been the subject of several studies. Different techniques have been proposed to overcome the challenge. Dynamic control of the power amplifier quiescent current, dynamic control of the load impedance, output harmonic control and dynamic supply voltage control (envelope tracking) are the popular proposed techniques. Despite the fact that the envelope tracking technique has gained momentum as an attractive efficiency enhancement method for handset applications, its implementation still faces challenges. This technique needs a high efficiency envelope amplifier to achieve good overall efficiency. The design of a small, efficient and wideband envelope amplifier is very challenging. Usually these amplifiers require external components and if they are in the switching mode they can add disturbance to the rest of the system. This research focuses on a technique that overcomes this main challenge of the ET amplifier design and is organized as follows : Chapter 1 is the introduction and discusses the motivation of this research and some of the prior art. Chapter 2 explains the proposed technique to enhance the RF power amplifiers efficiency in high peak-to-average power ratio applications. This technique is based on controlling the baseband drain impedance by adding an envelope termination to the PA supply, and applying the baseband envelope signal to the input. As a result, the amplifier operates closer to its saturated region for all envelope amplitudes, and its efficiency is improved. A digital predistortion scheme is implemented to compensate for the linearity degradation of the proposed technique. A 1.95GHz HFET power amplifier exhibits an improvement in peak PAE from 40% to 56% for a two-tone input, from 33% to 42% for an uplink WCDMA with one dedicated physical data channel and from 27% to 32% for an uplink WCDMA with six dedicated physical data channels using the proposed technique. Chapter 3 shows some improvements to the proposed technique including adding envelope equalization. The envelope equalization also improves the amplifier linearity since it reduces the distortion from clipping the output signal due to non-ideal dynamic supply. The linearity of the implemented amplifier is studied in a large-signal fashion. This technique improves the maximum efficiency from 28% to 40% for an uplink WCDMA signal with six dedicated physical data channels and the maximum linear efficiency from 21% to 28%. Also, a scheme to vary the DC power supply with the average power to maintain high efficiency down to a low average power region is proposed. Chapter 4 studies envelope feedback systems stability. The stability criteria are derived based on the Lyapunov stability theorem for time-varying systems and the tool of linear matrix inequality (LMI). The effects of system parameters on the stability are investigated. The system is simulated in Simulink and implemented, and stability boundaries predicted by LMI are in good agreement with the simulation and measurement results. Chapter 5 concludes the dissertation and suggests some future work.
Download or read book High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design for 28 GHz 5G Transmitters written by Nourhan Elsayed and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces power amplifier design in 22nm FDSOI CMOS dedicated towards 5G applications at 28 GHz and presents 4 state-of-the-art power amplifier designs. The authors discuss power amplifier performance metrics, design trade-offs, and presents different power amplifier classes utilizing efficiency enhancement techniques at 28 GHz. The book presents the design process from theory, simulation, layout, and finally measurement results.
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 Solid state Microwave High power Amplifiers written by Franco Sechi and published by Artech House. This book was released on 2009 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical resource offers expert guidance on the most critical aspects of microwave power amplifier design. This comprehensive book provides descriptions of all the major active devices, discusses large signal characterization, explains all the key circuit design procedures. Moreover you gain keen insight on the link between design parameters and technological implementation, helping you achieve optimal solutions with the most efficient utilization of available technologies. The book covers a broad range of essential topics, from requirements for high-power amplifiers, device models, phase noise and power combiners... to high-efficiency amplifiers, linear amplifier design, bias circuits, and thermal design.
