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Design of Highly Efficient Wideband RF Polar Transmitters Using the Envelope-Tracking Technique

2009; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 44; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/jssc.2009.2022669

1558-173X

Jerry Lopez, Yan Li, Jeremy Popp, Donald Y.C. Lie, Chia‐Chang Chuang, Kevin Chen, Stanley Wu, Tzu-Yin Yang, Gin-Kou Ma,

Full-Duplex Wireless Communications

This paper discusses the design issues of highly efficient and monolithic wideband RF polar transmitters, especially the ones that use the envelope-tracking (ET) technique. Besides first reviewing the current state-of-the-art polar transmitters in the literature, three focus topics will be discussed: 1) the system-on-a-chip (SoC) design considerations of the monolithic polar transmitter using ET versus EER (envelope elimination and restoration); 2) the design of highly efficient envelope amplifier capable of achieving the high efficiency, current, bandwidth, accuracy and noise specifications required for wideband signals; and 3) the design of high-efficiency monolithic Si-based class E power amplifiers (PAs) suitable for ET-based RF polar transmitters. A design prototype of a polar transmitter using ET and a monolithic SiGe PA that passed the stringent low-band EDGE (Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution) transmit mask with 45% overall transmitter system efficiency will be given; the simulated data of the entire polar transmitter system is also compared against the measurement. Further investigations on how to solve the technical challenges to successfully implement linear and high-efficiency ET-based polar transmitter for broadband wireless applications such as WiBro/WiMAX are also discussed.