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This much-anticipated volume builds on the author's popular work, RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications (Artech House, 1999), offering you a more in-depth understanding of the theory and design of RF power amplifiers. An invaluable reference tool for RF, digital and system level designers, the book enables you to efficiently design linear RF power amplifiers , and includes detailed discussions on envelope power management schemes and linearization techniques. Written by a recognized authority on PA design, this in-depth volume treats a range of power amplifier topics using readable symbolic analysis and idealized models, and follows up with CAD simulation using readily available commercial CAD tools. The work covers such vital topics as: the use of bipolar devices in conventional high efficiency PA design, the Doherty and Chireix PAs, envelope feedback, memory effects, predistortion, feedforward, and microwave PA techniques.
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Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design
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Advanced Techniques in RF Power Amplifier Design Steve C. Cripps
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cripps, Steve C. Advanced techniques in RF power amplifier design / Steve Cripps. p. cm. (Artech House microwave library) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-58053-282-9 (alk. paper) 1. Power amplifiers. 2. Amplifiers, Radio frequency. I. Title. II. Series. TK7871.58.P6 C72 2002 621.38412dc21 2002016427
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Cripps, Steve C. Advanced techniques in RF power amplifier design. (Artech House microwave library) 1. Power amplifiersDesign 2. Amplifiers, Radio frequency I. Title 621.38412 ISBN 1-58053-282-9