Dynamic Power Supply Transmitters, Envelop Tracking, Direct Polar, and Hybrid Combinations

Learn how envelope tracking, polar modulation, and hybrid designs using these techniques, really work. The first physically based and coherent book to bring together a complete overview of such circuit techniques, this is an invaluable resource for practising engineers, researchers and graduate students working on RF power amplifiers and transmitters. Learn how to create more successful designs. • Step-by-step design guidelines and real world case studies show you how to put these techniques into practice • A survey of how various transistor technologies help you to choose which transistor type to use for best results • Detail on the test and measurement of all aspects of these designs explains how to measure what the circuit is actually doing and how to interpret measurement results.

Earl McCune is a practising engineer and Silicon Valley entrepreneur. A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford University, and the University of California, Davis, he has over thirty-five years of postgraduate industry experience in wireless communications circuits and systems and more than sixty-five issued US patents. Now semi-retired, he has founded two successful start-up companies in addition to working in medium and very large sized corporations. He is also the author of Practical Digital Wireless Signals (Cambridge University Press, 2010).