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182Yuan Cheng,Li Zhiqun,Liu Jihua.and Wang Zhigong pact the circuit performance,especially the maximum PA operating frequency.According to the rule of thumb,the width making roe one tenth of the load resistor RL is a rec— ommended initial value,which makes E髓about88%from Eq.(5. 2.2Implementation of cuotal power-control One important issue in the design is to implement the OHtptit power control which is often required in practical ap- plications.Since the input signal provides only timing infor- marion in a class-E amplifier。the output power cannot be controlled by changing the width of the input transistor as is normally done in a lingar amplifier.Instead.the output pow. er control can be realized through a variable supply imple- mented by a DC.DC converter.But in practical applica. tions.it is not easy to apply such an additional variable sup- ply and tIle DC—DC converter circuit will consume extra power which reduces the overall e1啊ciency. In this paper,a three-bit control pad(Bit2-BitO,as shown in Fig.2,is designed to change the output power digitally.With a control word“11r’.the maximum power is available.while the minimum is at“000”.The control of ontput power is achieved by changing the duty cycle and the amplitude of the signal(‰which is the input to the gate of switch transistor SW. Since the turn.on resistance r^.of switch transistor SW is a factor which degrades tlle output POwer and efficiency. changing the amplitude of K.will accordingly change the output power.Tlle amplitude of Vi。is controlled by the gain of the first stage.which can be altered by the widtll of the cascade transistor.Bit2controls the state of M[22in Fig.2.Ⅵmen Bi匕is high.M22is paralleled into the circuit and the gain of the first stage increases.So is the amplitude of Vi。. Anotller method to control t11e power is by altering the duty cycle of山e K.,because all tlle values of tlle load net-work components depend on tIIe signal’s duty cycle¨J.This method is implemented by controlling th