Codesign of PA, supply, and signal processing for linear supply-modulated RF transmitters

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 60, Issue 6 PART 2, 2012, Pages 2010-2020

  Hoversten, John ^a   Schafer, Scott ^b   Roberg, Michael ^b   Norris, Mark ^a,b   Maksimović, Dragan ^b   Popović, Zoya ^b  

^a TEXAS INSTRUMENTS   (United States)

^b UCB 450   (United States)

Author keywords

Envelope elimination and restoration (EER); envelope tracking (ET); microwave power amplifiers (PAs); polar transmitter

Indexed keywords

CO-DESIGNS; CODESIGN METHOD; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION AND RESTORATIONS; ENVELOPE TRACKING; HIGH LINEARITY; LINEAR TRANSMITTERS; LINEARIZATION PROCEDURES; MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIER; PEAK POWER; POLAR TRANSMITTER; POWER-ADDED EFFICIENCY; REDUCED COMPLEXITY; RF POWER AMPLIFIERS; RF TRANSMITTER; SUPPLY MODULATOR;

EFFICIENCY; GALLIUM NITRIDE; MICROWAVE AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRANSMITTERS;

MODULATORS;

EID: 84861825751     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2012.2187920     Document Type: Article

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