{"title":"First-pass design of high efficiency power amplifiers using accurate large signal models","authors":"D. Y. Wu, Daniel Frebrowski, S. Boumaiza","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461832","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461832","url":null,"abstract":"A systematic, first-pass methodology for designing high efficiency power amplifier (PA) using only large signal CAD models is presented. Detailed analysis using the model reveals significant insights into PA operation as well as the required impedance environment for high efficiency mode of operation. In particular, waveform engineering and empirical loadpull are used to determine the optimal class of operation and impedance terminations. Combined with the use of precise electromagnetic simulator in synthesizing the matching network, first pass design of a 10W, 3.3 GHz GaN inverse class F PA as well as a 2.5 GHz push-pull inverse class F PA was realized with very good agreement between simulation and measurement results. Specifically, the 3.3 GHz PA achieved 74% power added efficiency (PAE) at 3.27 GHz with 38.27 dBm output power, while the push-pull PA achieved 75% drain efficiency with 42.7 dBm output power. The linearizability of the 3.3 GHz PA is demonstrated using predistorted WiMAX modulated signals. When combined with DPD, the PA showed acceptable EVM for use in next generation wireless base stations.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121110895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel technique to measure the input impedance of on-chip microstrip patch antenna in standard CMOS technology","authors":"T. Al-Attar","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461861","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a novel technique to measure the input impedance of on-chip microstrip patch antenna in standard CMOS technology. By using the measured impedance of IMPATT diodes fabricated in the same standard CMOS technology and three lateral IMPATT diodes integrated with a microstrip patch antenna at one of the radiating edges, oscillation can be achieved and accurate measurement of the antenna input impedance can be extracted. The antenna used is 1.4mm2 and it is designed at 77GHz by using the high frequency electromagnetic field solver Sonnet. The detected oscillation observed in the range of 75∼77GHz, with transmitted power of −62dBm at 77GHz. The measured input impedance is within 10% of the simulated one. It is hoped that this technique will provide accurate method to measure the input impedance in the millimeter-wave range of on-chip antenna with minimum near-filed perturbation.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124880223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"24 GHz low phase noise HBT dielectric resonator oscillator","authors":"P. Vryonides, S. Nikolaou, H. Haralambous","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461885","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the design and performance of a novel, planar 24 GHz low phase noise GaAs HBT dielectric resonator oscillator (DRO) for millimeter wave short range radar sensors for automotive and industrial applications. The detailed design, circuit development and experimental results for the DRO are presented and discussed. The measurement of the oscillator showed a center frequency of 23.82 GHz with a fundamental output power of 3.33 dBm and a phase noise performance of −125.67 dBc/Hz at 100 KHz offset, the lowest yet reported.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"153 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122253585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A 1 KW Pulsed amplifier using MESFET, LDMOS and Bipolar transistors at 2856 MHz","authors":"S. Bharj","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461859","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461859","url":null,"abstract":"The 1 Kilo-Watt Amplifier Pulsed amplifier has been designed and tested for driving a Klystron power amplifier. The amplifier consists of a Class A multistage, single ended pre-driver using commercially available MESFET devices and consists of bias sequencing and voltage regulation. The 30 dB gain Amplifier operates from a single supply. The pre-driver is followed by a 50 Watt GaN single stage amplifier that is biased at a very low current Class AB mode. The power amplifier output stage has been designed using both Bipolar and LDMOS transistors. A four way Gysel power splitter / combiner is used to combine four Class C Bipolar pre-matched transistors capable of producing a pulsed power output in excess of 250W each with a duty cycle of 1%. A second power amplifier stage utilizes eight LDMOS transistors which are combined using commercial-off the shelf hybrids has also been made with the same foot print. The complete amplifier, either with the Bipolar or LDMOS transistors, has delivered in excess of 1 KW of pulsed power at 2856 MHz with a pulse rise time of better than 100nsec. This paper presents the design and measurements of the amplifier.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131515672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can a routing protocol be truly optimal? dynamic load-balancing in wireless sensor networks","authors":"Daniel Lee, S. Wicker","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461871","url":null,"abstract":"We consider the use of a novel load balancingaware routing algorithm for multipath wireless sensor networks. Focusing on solutions that minimize end-to-end delay, we optimize resource usage in mobile nodes. An analytical model is provided for flow-level multipath routing design; we then proceed to simplify the model for more practicality while retaining much of the original functionality. The practical system incorporates a load balancing-aware feedback control system based on the analytical model, allowing us to optimize traffic flow through the system. The proposed network design results in significant improvement in system delay and offered load.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"132 26","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113969908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Broadband MMIC power amplifier for multiple wireless systems","authors":"A. Ezzeddine, Ho-Chung Huang","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461854","url":null,"abstract":"We report the successful development of a broadband, high-linearity MMIC PA. This single PA is useful for multiple wireless systems including satellite mobile ground terminal, GPS transmitter, WiFi repeater, and WiMAX repeater applications. Using GaAs MESFET technology, we connect two 12mm FET unit cells both RF and DC in series (HIFET) to achieve a total gate width of 24mm. This way, the DC bias voltage is doubled from 7V to 14V. Because the 12mm FET's optimum output impedance is about 6 ohms, a single conventional 24mm FET's optimum output impedance will be about 3 ohms. The 2HIFET output optimum impedance is twice that of a 12mm FET, which is about 12 ohms. This high output impedance leads to broadband capability. This is the key reason that a single MMIC PA can serve multiple wireless system applications. This 2-stage MMIC PA is housed in a commercial ceramic package. It achieves 27dB small-signal gain, 39dBm P1dB, 30% power added efficiency over the 1.5GHz to 2.5GHz band. It has good linearity of 51dBm IP3, which is 12dB above P1dB. We believe the combination of bandwidth, output power, efficiency, and linearity is the best reported for MESFET MMIC PA to date.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"216 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121945124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Low power super-regenerative Impulse-FM-UWB transceiver for WBAN","authors":"M. Anis, M. Ortmanns, N. Wehn","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461873","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a low power super-regenerative Impulse-FM-UWB transceiver architecture for wireless body area networks. The design architecture consists of two different colpitts oscillators tuned at 3.5GHz and 4GHz. The external PCB loop antenna is incorporated into these oscillators as an inductive element to achieve high sensitivity and selectivity. These oscillators transmit impulses of FM-UWB signals in switched OOK mode and receive in super-regenerative mode. The design concept is simulated in 0.18µm CMOS technology. The data exchange rate of 2Mbps is achieved for detecting −95dBm signals with the power consumption of 400µW.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129827620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Wireless powering of sensors embedded in concrete","authors":"S. Georgakopoulos, Shan Jiang","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461866","url":null,"abstract":"We present the feasibility and optimization of wireless powering of sensors embedded in concrete that relies on a plane wave propagation model. Transmission loss and propagation loss of RF wave penetrating into concrete at different humidity conditions are calculated for various frequencies, thus an optimum frequency range is identified for the wireless power transmission. The optimized rectenna is also designed for the calculation of battery charging time.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130158917","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancement of signal integrity for multi-module memory bus by particle swarm optimization","authors":"D. Lin, M. Houng, Wen-Sheng Liu","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461892","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461892","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the characteristic impedance of transmission line and on-die termination (ODT) for Double Data Rate (DDR3) multi-module memory bus were be effectively enhanced signal integrity by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. The bionic characteristic of PSO has good performance of search for macrocosm and fast convergence. In this case, the equivalent model of the circuit considers that CPU/MCH and two dual in-line memory modules (DIMMs) connect by five segments of transmission lines. And the fitness function defined by the reflection coefficient for drive end is the small the better and the transmission coefficient for receiving end is the large the better. Finally, we verify enhancement of signal integrity for the DDR3 by simulating eye diagram.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123131424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new Doherty amplifier design approach","authors":"Tian-Wei He, U. Balaji","doi":"10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WAMICON.2010.5461882","url":null,"abstract":"The conventional Doherty amplifier requires the auxiliary device current to increase faster than the main as the input power increases. This has been accomplished by additional control circuitry, or uneven power drive, or periphery scaling. This paper presents a new Doherty design approach that accepts the insufficient auxiliary device current. It is shown that with this approach, comparable power back-off efficiency is achieved while linearity is maintained.","PeriodicalId":112402,"journal":{"name":"2010 IEEE 11th Annual Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON)","volume":"39 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131859743","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}