A ΔΣ-Digitized polar RF transmitter

被引:67
作者
Choi, Jinsung [1 ]
Yim, Jounghyun [2 ]
Yang, Jinho [3 ]
Kim, Jingook [4 ]
Cha, Jeonghyun [5 ]
Kang, Daehyun [1 ]
Kim, Dongsu [1 ]
Kim, Bumman [1 ]
机构
[1] Pohang Univ Sci & Technol, Dept Elect Engn, Pohang 790784, South Korea
[2] Samsung Elect Co Ltd, Syst Large Scale Integrat Div, RF Team, Semicond Business, Yongin 431836, South Korea
[3] Access Network Dev Team, SK Telecom, Seoul 100999, South Korea
[4] Handong Global Univ, Dept Informat Technol Engn, Pohang 791708, South Korea
[5] XRONet Corp, Songnam 463020, South Korea
关键词
code division multiple access (CDMA); constant envelope modulator; efficiency; IS-95A; linearity; multibit; polar modulator; power amplifier (PA); RF transmitter; sigma-delta; V-DS-to-phase modulation (V-DS/P M); POWER-AMPLIFIERS; ENVELOPE ELIMINATION; CLASS-F; DSP;
D O I
10.1109/TMTT.2007.907137
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
This paper demonstrates a new polar transmitter architecture, which uses the digitized envelope signal to control the drain voltage of a switching mode power amplifier (PA). It is based on a novel polar modulation using the constant envelope modulated signal. Among the various constant envelope modulators, the A E modulator is chosen for its noise-shaping characteristic. It enables the use of a highly efficient switching amplifier with high linearity. For demonstration, the overall transmitter is implemented and tested with a code-division multiple-access IS-95A signal. The class-D and class-F amplifiers are designed and compared for the optimum operation. The experimental results show that the amplifier with small device size is suitable for this application because of the fast switching requirement. For the class-F amplifier, the measured power-added efficiency is 51.7% at 22.1 dBm and the overall efficiency (considering the amplified quantization noise) is 31%. The adjacent channel power ratios at 885 kHz and 1.98 MHz are lower than -44.9 and -55.6 dBc at the output power range from 10.8 to 22.1 dBm without any pre-distortion techniques. The overall efficiency is improved to 48.6% with a three-level quantized Delta Sigma modulator. The results clearly show that the highly efficient switching mode PA can be controlled efficiently using a digital signal from the Delta Sigma envelope modulation technique.
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页码:2679 / 2690
页数:12
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