Tracking power converter for supply modulation of RF power amplifiers

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Midya, P [1 ]
Haddad, K [1 ]
Connell, L [1 ]
Bergstedt, S [1 ]
Roeckner, B [1 ]
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[1] Motorola Labs, IC Design Technol Lab, Schaumburg, IL 60196 USA
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This paper describes a tracking power converter and the controller IC for its implementation. The tracking power converter is used for supply modulation of a linear RF power amplifier. Supply modulation improves RF power amplifier efficiency for variable envelope RF signals. This system maximizes tracking bandwidth (similar to160kHz), ripple suppression (similar to70dB) and power conversion efficiency (similar to92%) with a relatively low switching frequency (800kHz).
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页码:1540 / 1545
页数:6
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