A Hysteretic Two-phase Supply Modulator for Envelope Tracking RF PowerAmplifiers

سال انتشار: 1393
نوع سند: مقاله ژورنالی
زبان: انگلیسی
مشاهده: 748

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شناسه ملی سند علمی:

JR_IJE-27-12_005

تاریخ نمایه سازی: 13 مرداد 1394

چکیده مقاله:

In this paper, a two-phase supply modulator suitable for envelope tracking power amplifier is presented.The designed supply modulator has the linear assisted switching architecture. Two-phase architecture isused in order to reduce the output switching ripples. The proposed architecture uses hysteretic controlinstead of pulse width modulation (PWM) which significantly reduces the circuit complexity. Moreover,fewer number of external R and C elements are used which leads to simpler architecture in comparisonwith reported two-phase PWM supply modulators. The proposed envelope modulator is evaluated with0.18 ?m CMOS technology. The results show that the designed two-phase modulator improves the outputswitching noise ripples and consequently enhances the overall linearity of the modulator compared to thesingle-phase case. The overall efficiency of the two-phase envelope modulator is 72.5% with 80 MHzswitching frequency for a one-tone 5 MHz envelope signals at 27.4 dBm output power. The RMS outputvoltage ripples is less than 7.2 mV in a wide range of input signal amplitude while a SFDR of 50.4dB isachieved.

کلیدواژه ها:

Envelope ModulatorCurrent SharingPolar ModulationPower AmplifierTwo-phase

نویسندگان

A Salimi

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

R Dehghani

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

A Nabavi

bFaculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran