Wideband high efficiency digitally-assisted envelope amplifier with dual switching stages for radio base-station envelope tracking power amplifiers

IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 672-675

  Hsia, Chin ^a   Kimball, Donald F ^a   Lanfranco, Sandro ^b   Asbeck, Peter M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital pre distortion; Dynamic supply modulator; Envelope tracking; Memory effects; Peak to average power ratio; Power amplifiers

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFIER ARCHITECTURE; BASE-STATION AMPLIFIERS; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE TRACKING; GAAS; HIGH EFFICIENCY; HIGH LINEARITY; HIGH VOLTAGE; LINEAR REGULATORS; LOW POWER; MEMORY EFFECTS; OUTPUT POWER; OVERALL EFFICIENCY; PEAK TO AVERAGE POWER RATIO; RMS ERRORS; SWITCHING STAGE; WIDE BANDWIDTH; WIDE-BAND;

BANDWIDTH; MODULATORS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BROADBAND AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 77957797167     PISSN: 0149645X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/MWSYM.2010.5514940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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