Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design

Steve, C. Cripps, Steve C. Cripps, Steve C. Cripps1580532829, 9781580532822

This much-anticipated volume builds on the author’s popular work, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House, 1999), offering you a more in-depth understanding of the theory and design of RF power amplifiers. An invaluable reference tool for RF, digital and system level designers, the book enables you to efficiently design linear RF power amplifiers , and includes detailed discussions on envelope power management schemes and linearization techniques. Written by a recognized authority on PA design, this in-depth volume treats a range of power amplifier topics using readable symbolic analysis and idealized models, and follows up with CAD simulation using readily available commercial CAD tools. The work covers such vital topics as: the use of bipolar devices in conventional high efficiency PA design, the Doherty and Chireix PAs, envelope feedback, memory effects, predistortion, feedforward, and microwave PA techniques.

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Table of contents :
Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design
……Page 1
Copyright……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 12
Acknowledgments……Page 16
Ch1 Class AB Amplifiers……Page 18
Ch2 Doherty & Chireix……Page 50
Ch3 Some Topics in PA Nonlinearity……Page 90
Ch4 Feedback Techniques……Page 128
Ch5 Predistortion Techniques……Page 170
Ch6 Feedforward Power Amplifiers……Page 214
Ch7 Microwave Power Amplifiers……Page 274
Appendix……Page 316
Glossary……Page 318
About the Author……Page 322
Index……Page 324
Recent Titles in Artech Microwave Library……Page 338