Dynamic Power Supply Transmitters: Envelope Tracking, Direct Polar, and Hybrid Combinations

by Earl McCune

Overview

Learn how envelope tracking, polar modulation, and hybrid designs using these techniques, really work. The first physically based and coherent book to bring together a complete overview of such circuit techniques, this is an invaluable resource for practising engineers, researchers and graduate students working on RF power amplifiers and transmitters. Learn how to create more successful designs. • Step-by-step design guidelines and real world case studies show you how to put these techniques into practice • A survey of how various transistor technologies help you to choose which transistor type to use for best results • Detail on the test and measurement of all aspects of these designs explains how to measure what the circuit is actually doing and how to interpret measurement results.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781316288566
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/21/2015
Series:	The Cambridge RF and Microwave Engineering Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	42 MB
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About the Author

Earl McCune is a practising engineer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of California, Davis, he has over thirty-five years of postgraduate industry experience in wireless communications circuits and systems and more than sixty-five issued US patents. Now semi-retired, he has founded two successful start-up companies in addition to working in medium and very large sized corporations. He is also the author of Practical Digital Wireless Signals (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

Table of Contents

Part I. Motivations, Definitions, and Principles: 1. Motivations; 2. Definitions; 3. Dynamic power supply common principles; 4. Linear power amplifiers; 5. Envelope tracking principles; 6. Polar transmitter principles; Part II. DPST Circuit Issues: 7. Linear PA circuit considerations for ET; 8. Intentional circuit compression; 9. Dynamic power supplies (TX is power sig proc, not NRG based); 10. Device technologies: special issues for DPS use; 11. Hybrid system combinations; 12. Multistage modulation; Part III. Testing and Manufacturability: 13. Testing and calibration techniques; Appendix A. Switching transistor evaluation metrics across technologies.