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Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets

by Leyssenne, Laurent.
Authors: Kerhervé, Eric.%author. | Deval, Yann.%author. | SpringerLink (Online service) Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing Physical details: XVI, 168 p. online resource. ISBN: 9400704259 Subject(s): Engineering. | Software engineering. | Microwaves. | Electronics. | Systems engineering. | Engineering. | Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering. | Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. | Circuits and Systems. | Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems.
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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Mobile Phone Transmitters for Wireless Standards: systems, architectures and technologies -- Chapter 2 Discretized Reconfiguration Techniques for Radiofrequency Power Amplifiers -- Chapter 3 Continuous Adaptive Bias Technique for Radiofrequency Power amplifiers -- General Conclusion -- Appendices -- Index.

Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets is intended to designers and researchers who have to tackle the efficiency/linearity trade-off in modern RF transmitters so as to extend their battery lifetime. High data rate 3G/4G standards feature broad channel bandwidths, high dynamic range and critical envelope variations which generally forces the power amplifier (PA) to operate in a low efficiency “backed-off” regime. Classic efficiency enhancement techniques such as Envelope Elimination and Restoration reveal to be little compliant with handset-dedicated PA implementation due to their channel-bandwidth-limited behavior and their increased die area consumption and/or bill-of-material. The architectural advances that are proposed in this book circumvent these issues since they put the stress on low die-area /low power-consumption control circuitry. The advantages of silicon over III/V technologies are highlighted by several analogue signal processing techniques that can be implemented on-chip with a power amplifier. System-level and transistor-level simulations are combined to illustrate the principles of the proposed power adaptive solutions. Measurement on BICMOS demonstrators allows validating the functionality of dynamic linearity/efficiency management. In Reconfigurable RF Power Amplifiers on Silicon for Wireless Handsets, PA designers will find a review of technologies, architectures and theoretical formalisms (Volterra series…) that are traditionally related to PA design. Specific issues that one encounters in power amplifiers (such as thermal / memory effects, stability, VSWR sensitivity…) and the way of overcoming them are also extensively considered throughout this book.

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