50% PAE WCDMA basestation amplifier implemented with GaN HFETs

Don Kimball; Paul Draxler; Jinho Jeong; Chin Hsia; Sandro Lanfranco; Walter Nagy; Kevin Linthicum; Larry Larson; Peter Asbeck

doi:10.1109/CSICS.2005.1531768

50% PAE WCDMA basestation amplifier implemented with GaN HFETs

Don Kimball^*
, Paul Draxler
, Jinho Jeong
, Chin Hsia
, Sandro Lanfranco
, Walter Nagy
, Kevin Linthicum
, Larry Larson
, Peter Asbeck

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of California at San Diego
Qualcomm Incorporated
Nokia
Nitronex Corporation

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Abstract

A high performance GaN HFET WCDMA basestation power amplifier is presented, which uses an envelope tracking bias system to achieve high linearity and efficiency. The measured overall power-added efficiency (PAE) reached 50.7 %, with a normalized power RMS error of 0.7% and ACLR of -52 dBc at an offset frequency of 5 MHz, at an average output power of 37.2 W and gain of 10.0 dB for a single carrier WCDMA signal. To the authors' knowledge, this corresponds to the best efficiency reported for a single stage base station power amplifier. Digital predistortion (DPD) was used at two levels: memoryless DPD to compensate for the expected gain variation of the amplifier over the bias envelope trajectory, and deterministic memory mitigation, to further improve the linearity. The signal envelope had a peak-to-average power ratio of 7.67 dB.

Original language	English
Article number	LN.4
Pages (from-to)	89-92
Number of pages	4
Journal	Technical Digest - IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/CSICS.2005.1531768
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes
Event	2005 IEEE Compound Semiconductor Integrated Circuit Symposium, CSIC - Palm Springs, CA, United States Duration: 30 10 2005 → 02 11 2005

Keywords

Base station power amplifier
Digital predistortion
Efficiency
Envelope tracking
GaN HFET
WCDMA

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