Synopsis
IMPROVE POWER AMP DESIGN
This rigorous tutorial helps you shorten your design time cycle and improve the efficiency of your devices. In these pages, expert design engineer Andrei Grebennikov shows you how to integrate analytic calculations with computer-assisted design techniques for greater efficiency in both process and product. Offering every leading-edge strategy, graphically illustrated with nearly 300 detailed diagrams, RF and Microwave Power Amplifier Design gives you the information you need to improve your design of:
- Both microwave and RF power amplifiers
- High-power amplifiers
- Power amps with greater operating efficiency
- Broadband power amps
- Power amplifiers for communication systems and smart products
IMPROVE POWER AMP DESIGN, ONE CHAPTER AT A TIME:
Two-Port Network Parameters
• Nonlinear Circuit Design Methods
• Nonlinear Active Device Modeling
• Impedance Matching
• Power Transformers, Combiners, and Directional Couplers
• Power Amplifier Design Fundamentals
• High-Efficiency Power Amplifier Design
• Broadband Power Amplifiers
• Power Amplifier Design for Communication Systems
Andrei Grebennikov is a principal design engineer with M/A-COM, a division of Tyco Electronics. He has taught at the University of Linz in Austria, the Institute of Microelectronics in Singapore, and the Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics. He currently teaches the seminar on which this book is based as part of the annual International Microwave Symposium.
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This tutorial presents all the relevant information required for RF and microwave power amplifier design, including well-known and new theoretical approaches, practical design techniques, and suggestions for design approaches combining analytical calculations and computer- aided design. Grebennikov, the principal design engineer at M/A-COM, not only provides the latest strategies, he also introduces old approaches that are still viable in modern practice. The topics covered include two-port network parameters, nonlinear circuit design methods, impedance matching, and broadband power amplifiers. The text is illustrated with nearly 300 detailed diagrams and extensive references for every chapter.