高效率高线性度射频功率放大器的分析与设计.pdfVIP

ABSTRACT ABSTRACT The upcoming deployment of China’s indigenous TD-LTE mobile communication system make the corresponding research on its RF module necessary, which as an integral part of all wireless communications, has a critical impact on the performance of the overall system. Radio frequency power amplifiers are an essential part of the RF module, and its efficiency, power gain and linearity directly influence the covering range, power consumption and bit-error-rate (BER) of the LTE base station or handsets. Based on these backgrounds, a high efficiency and high linearity power amplifier for the LTE application is designed in this paper. Currently the ways to improve efficiency of power amplifiers include reducing the conduction angle, driving the PA into switch mode, Doherty topology, Envelope Elimination and Restoration etc. The method adopted in this paper is using the Class-F power amplifier for its low cost and relatively simple circuit topology. Since the transistor is driven into saturation in Class-F mode, it suffers from poor linearity as its output signal is distorted in terms of amplitude. In order to reduce distortion, particularly the third-order intermodulation of the output signal, the predistortion technique is used to improve the PA’s linearity. The contents of the paper are summarized as follows: Chapter 1 gives a brief introduction to the development of wireless communications and its accompanying requirements for the PA design; C