2007 IEEE Topical Symposium on
Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications
Session 1: Plenary
8:30 Welcome
8:40 1.1 Invited Talk: Earl McCune (Panasonic R&D Company of America)
Power Amplifiers and Multi-mode Requirements
9:05 1.2 Invited Talk: Jan Verspecht (Jan Verspecht bvba, Steenhuffel, Belgium)
Advanced Measurements for Characterizing Power Transistors
9:30 1.3 Invited Talk: Joseph Cleveland (Samsung Telecommunications America)
Power Amplifier Impact on Wireless Systems
9:55 1.4 Invited Talk: Chris Taylor (Strategy Analytics)
Challenges and Opportunities for Compound Semiconductors in the Mobile Handset Roadmap
Session 2: Techniques for Switching Power Amplifiers
10:45 2.1 Jinseong Jeong, Yuanxun Ethan Wang
(University of
California, Los Angeles)
Pulsed Load Modulation (PLM)
Techniques for High Efficiency Non- Constant-Envelope Amplification
11:05 2.2 Tsai-Pi Hung, Lawrence E. Larson, Peter M. Asbeck
(University of California, San Diego)
CMOS Outphasing Class-D Power Amplifiers with Chireix Combiners
11:25 2.3 Xing Wang, Yuanxun Ethan Wang
(University of California, Los Angeles)
High Efficiency Class E MMIC Power Amplifier for Ku-band Applications
11:45 2.4 Young-Sang Jeon, Sangwook Nam, and Kyungheon Koo
(Seoul National University, Seoul; University of Incheon, Incheon)
Pulse Area Modulation for High-Efficiency Power Amplifiers
Session 3: Technologies for High Power Amplifiers
1:10 3.1 Walter Nagy
(Nitronex)
Will GaN Enable Wideband PA’s for Software Defined Radio?
1:30 3.2 D. Runton, M. LeFevre, J. Kinney, J. Wood, F. Fernez
(Freescale Semiconductor)
The Implications of Video Bandwidth Performance on DPD of a High-Power LDMOS Doherty Amplifier
1:50 3.3 A. Benchahed, A. Ghazel, M.Mabrouk, M.F. Ghannouchi*
(CIRTA’COM, SUPCOM de Tunis, Cite Technologique des Communications, *Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada)
Digital Architecture of Power Amplifiers Predistorter for 3G Basestations
2:10 3.4 Øystein Jensen, Morten Olavsbråten
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
High Efficiency 10MHz 3rd harmonic peaking Class F Power Amplifier
Session 4: Amplifier Characterization Techniques
3:00 4.1 Invited Talk: John Sevic
(Maury Microwave)
Challenges and Solutions for On-Wafer 35dBm GSM/EDGE Loadpull
3:30 4.2 Charles Baylis, Lawrence Dunleavy, Steven Lardizabal*
(University of South Florida, *Raytheon)
Efficient Load-Pull Measurement Using a Sequential Search Algorithm
3:50 4.3 Basim Noori, Scott Rumery*
(Freescale Semiconductor, *Skyworks Inc.)
The Low Frequency Probe: A new technique for measuring the modulation bandwidth of power amplifiers
4:10 4.4 Nima Safari1, J. Stevenson Kenney2, Terje Roste3
(1NTNU, Norway; 2Georgia Inst. Of Technology; 3Nera Research, Norway)
A New Digital Predistortion with Memory Effects Based on Cubic Spline Model
4:30 4.5 Pavlo Fedorenko, Jau-Horng Chen* and J. Stevenson Kenney
(Georgia Institute of Technology, *Freescale)
Bandwidth-Specific Memory Ratio as a Predictor of RF Power Amplifier Predistortability
Session 5: Technology for Mobile Stations and Handsets
1:10 5.1 D.Y.C.Lie1, J.Lopez1, J.F.Rowland2, J.D.Popp2, A.Yang1, A.Hurtado1, G.Wang3, H.Li3, J.Park3, Z.Ma3
(1Dynamnic Research Corporation, 2SPAWAR System Center, System Center, San Diego, CA, 3University of Wisconsin - Madison)
Highly Efficient and Linear Class E SiGe Medium Power Amplifier Design
1:30 5.2 Invited Talk: Aditya Gupta
(ANADIGICS, Inc.)
InGaP-Plus raises the bar
2:00 5.3 Ram Pratap Aditham, I. Volokhine
(NXP semiconductors)
A Single-Stage Differential Cascode PA for Wireless Applications
2:20 5.4 A.K.Ezzeddine, H.C.Huang, R.S.Howell, H.C.Nathanson1, N.G.Paraskevopoulos1
(AMCOM Communications, Inc., 1Northrop Grumman Corp.)
CMOS PA for Wireless Applications
Session 6: Amplifier Linearization Techniques
3:20 6.1 Invited Talk: J.Stevenson Kenney
(Georgia Institute of
Technology)
Behavioral Modeling and Linearization Techniques
3:50 6.2 Albert Cesari, Jean-Marie Dilhac, P.L. Gilabert*, G. Montoro*, E. Bertran*
(LAAS-CNRS France, *UPC Spain)
A FPGA-based Ploatform for Fast Prototyping of RFPA Predistortion Linearizers
4:10 6.3 Marius Ubostad, Morten Olavsbråten
(Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
Active Bias Circuit used for linearity improvement in a HBT Power Amplifier
4:30 6.4 Emmanuel Cottais, Yide Wang, Serge Toutain
(IREENA - Polytech'Nantes)
Experimental Results for Power Amplifier Adaptive Baseband Predistortion Linearization