An improved power-added efficiency 19-dBm hybrid envelope elimination and restoration power amplifier for 802.11 g WLAN applications

F Wang, DF Kimball, JD Popp, AH Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2006 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A comparison of envelope elimination and restoration (EER) and envelope tracking (ET) is
discussed and a" hybrid" wideband EER power amplifier (PA) for the WLAN 802.11 g system …

A monolithic high-efficiency 2.4-GHz 20-dBm SiGe BiCMOS envelope-tracking OFDM power amplifier

F Wang, DF Kimball, DY Lie… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A monolithic SiGe BiCMOS envelope-tracking power amplifier (PA) is demonstrated for
802.11 g OFDM applications at 2.4 GHz. The 4-mm 2 die includes a high-efficiency high …

Combined Linear and -Modulated Switch-Mode PA Supply Modulator for Polar Transmitters

JN Kitchen, C Chu, S Kiaei… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A combined linear and delta-modulated (DeltaM) switch-mode PA supply modulator for
polar transmitters in wireless handsets is designed in a 0.25 mum CMOS process. The …

Challenges and requirements of multimode multiband power amplifiers for mobile applications

N Cheng, JP Young - 2011 IEEE Compound Semiconductor …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Multimode multiband (MMMB) power amplifiers have been developed in recent years for
next generation mobile handsets and tablets applications. Designers face new and greater …

A 2-GHz highly linear efficient dual-mode BiCMOS power amplifier using a reconfigurable matching network

H Hedayati, M Mobarak, G Varin… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A highly linear, efficient, two-stage power amplifier for high-data-rate wireless applications is
presented. The linearity is greatly improved by adding an auxiliary amplifier to the main …

Fundamental study of influence of ripple noise from DC–DC converter on spurious noise of wireless portable equipment

S Sugahara, S Matsunaga - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power supply noise is a serious concern in noise-sensitive radio frequency or analog
circuits. This paper presents an analysis of the influence of the synchronous rectification …

Phase-silence-shift-keying for power-efficient modulator

DK Kim, HS Lee - IEICE transactions on communications, 2009 - search.ieice.org
We propose a new modulation, phase-silence-shift-keying (PSSK), whose symbol error rate
(SER) performance is improved by 6 dB compared with phase-shift-keying (PSK). To prove …

System-efficiency analysis of power amplifier supply-tracking regimes in mobile transmitters

BJ Minnis, PA Moore, PN Whatmough… - … on Circuits and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Maintaining high RF efficiency in the transmitters of mobile phones is becoming more
difficult as data rates rise with increasing modulation complexity and crest factor. In …

Optimum biasing for parallel hybrid switching-linear regulators

JT Stauth, SR Sanders - IEEE Transactions on Power …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Hybrid combinations of switching and linear regulators have been proposed for both audio
amplifiers and dynamic supply modulators for radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) …

Power control of a power amplifier

JC Clifton, S Denny, A Eaton - US Patent 7,196,583, 2007 - Google Patents
To effect power control of a power amplifier 2 having three amplifier stages 3, 4 and 5 used
to amplify input signals modulated in accordance with a variable envelope modula tion …