Recombination of envelope and phase paths in wideband polar transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1891-1904

  Syllaios, Ioannis L ^a   Balsara, Poras T ^a   Staszewski, Robert Bogdan ^b  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

All digital phase locked loop (ADPLL); envelope modulator; phase modulator; polar transmitter; signal recombination; wideband ADPLL

Indexed keywords

CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; PHASE LOCKED LOOPS; PHASE MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS;

ALL DIGITAL PHASE LOCKED LOOP; CHARACTERIZATION TECHNIQUES; DIGITALLY-CONTROLLED POWER AMPLIFIERS (DPA); PHASE MODULATOR; POLAR TRANSMITTER; TRANSFER CHARACTERISTICS; WIDE-BAND; WIDEBAND CODE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 77955655934     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2039256     Document Type: Article

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