Amplifiers

Power Amplifier Linearization Using an Indirect-learning-based Inverse TDNN Model

In this article, an effective digital predistortion procedure of data acquisition, analysis, modeling and linearization for high power amplifiers is presented, based on tapped delay neural networks (TDNN). Memory effects of high power RF amplifiers wer...
Current research studies are drawing more and more attention on the memory effects of high power amplifier linearization, especially for cellular base transceiver system applications. 1,2 Although many studies on power amplifier linearization have been conducted, linearization of strongly nonlinear systems with large memory, which exacerbates the performance of...
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HSPA: New Challenges for Power Amplifiers in UMTS User Equipment

Mobile radio technology, based on the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS), is developing at breakneck speed. Network operators worldwide are currently upgrading their networks with new high speed downlink packet access (HSDPA) technology, which optimizes the data transmission from the network to the user equipment (downlink). New transmission methods...
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Low Voltage Operation of GaAs Power Amplifiers

Next-generation mobile phones are capable of downloading music and video programming, displaying global positioning system (GPS) mapping and sharing high resolution photographs. These new applications are becoming increasingly popular as teenagers and others learn to manipulate photo and music files. Applications involving heavy display usage (such as mobile television)...
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The Grid Amplifier: Enabling High Power Millimeter-wave Systems

There are a number of communications, radar and imaging applications spanning Ka-band through W-band (26 to 110 GHz) that require transmitter output powers in the range of a few watts to a few tens of watts. Vacuum-tube sources and amplifiers have long been available that can produce output power...
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