ADVANCED TECHNIQUES IN RF POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN
CONTENTS CLASS AB AMPLIFIERS INTRODUCTION CLASSICAL CLASS AB MODES CLASS AB: A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE RF BIPOLARS: VIVE LA DIFFERENCE A BASIC RF BJT MODEL ON SWEET SPOTS AND IM GLITCHES CONCLUSIONS REFERENCE DOHERTY AND CHIREIX THE DOHERTY PA INTRODUCTION AND FORMULATION THE CLASSICAL DOHERTY CONFIGURATION VARIATIONS ON THE CLASSICAL CONFIGURATION PEAKING AMPLIFIER CONFIGURATIONS DOHERTY PA MATCHING TOPOLOGIES THE MULTIPLE DOHERTY PA DOHERTY PA CONCLUSIONS THE CHIREIX OUTPHASING PA DISCUSSION, ANALYSIS, AND SIMULATION VARIATIONS CHIREIX: CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES SOME TOPICS IN PA NONLINEARITY A PROBLEM, A SOLUTION, AND PROBLEMS WITH THE SOLUTION POWER SERIES, VOLTERRA SERIES, AND POLYNOMIALS TWO-CARRIER CHARACTERIZATION MEMORY AND IM ASYMMETRY IN RFPAS PAS AND PEAK-TO-AVERAGE RATIOS FEEDBACK TECHNIQUES AMPLITUDE ENVELOPE FEEDBACK: CONFIGURATION AND ANALYSIS VECTOR ENVELOPE FEEDBACK LOW LATENCY PA DESIGN PREDISTORTION TECHNIQUES THIRD-DEGREE PA: PREDISTORTION ANALYSIS PD CHARACTERISTIC FOR GENERAL PA MODEL PRACTICAL REALIZATION OF THE PREDISTORTER FUNCTION: INTRODUCTION ANALOG PREDISTORTERS DSP PREDISTORTION FEEDFORWARD POWER AMPLIFIERS THE FEEDFORWARD LOOP AM-PM CORRECTION IN THE FEEDFORWARD LOOP ERROR INSERTION COUPLING THIRD-DEGREE ANALYSIS OF THE GENERALIZED FEEDFORWARD (FFW) LOOP FORMULATION AND ANALYSIS TRACKING ERRORS COMPRESSION ADJUSTMENT THIRD-DEGREE ANALYSIS: CONCLUSIONS FEEDFORWARD LOOP SIMULATION EFFECT OF AM-PM IN MAIN PA GAIN COMPRESSION ADJUSTMENT EPR CHANGE GAIN AND PHASE TRACKING MULTICARRIER SIMULATION FEEDFORWARD LOOP EFFICIENCY CONSIDERATIONS ADAPTION AND CORRECTION: CLOSING THE LOOP THE DOUBLE FEEDFORWARD LOOP A FEEDFORWARD-ENHANCED POWER COMBINER “BUDGET” FFW SYSTEMS MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIERS BROADBAND MICROWAVE POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN BROADBAND MATCHING USING NETWORK SYNTHESIS BALANCED AMPLIFIERS BROADBAND POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN ISSUES MICROWAVE CIRCUITS AND MIC TECHNIQUES SUBSTRATE AND HEATSINK MATERIALS MIC COMPONENTS AND STRUCTURES PA DESIGN USING PREMATCHED MODULES MATCHING ISSUES FOR IMTS BIASING ISSUES FOR IMTS POWER COMBINING OF IMTS DISTRIBUTED AMPLIFIERS