Effects of switching power converter nonidealities in Envelope Elimination and Restoration technique

Proceedings - IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 3137-3140

  Marco, L ^a   Alarcon, E ^a   Maksimovic, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SIGNAL DISTORTION; SWITCHING;

BASEBAND ENVELOPE; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATION (EER); POLAR AMPLIFICATION; SPURIOUS-FREE DYNAMIC RANGE (SFDR);

POWER CONVERTERS;

EID: 34547247016     PISSN: 02714310     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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