A technique to reduce phase/frequency modulation bandwidth in a polar RF transmitter

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 2196-2207

  Zhuang, Jingcheng ^a   Waheed, Khurram ^b   Staszewski, Robert Bogdan ^c  

^a Member of Technical Staff   (Netherlands)

^b Bitwave   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; Cartesian modulator; frequency modulation; modulation bandwidth; phase modulation; polar transmitter; small signal polar; WCDMA

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH; COMMERCE; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MODULATORS; PHASE MODULATION; POWER AMPLIFIERS; TRANSMITTERS;

CARTESIANS; MODULATION BANDWIDTH; POLAR TRANSMITTER; SMALL-SIGNAL POLAR; WCDMA;

FREQUENCY MODULATION;

EID: 77955661589     PISSN: 15498328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2009.2037394     Document Type: Article

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