Madhuwantha, Millaniyage Sidath Priyanka (2018) Analog and Digital Co-design Methods for Future Wireless Transmitters. Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
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Abstract
Increasing demand to provide higher data rates with spectral purity sets high
standards for future mobile communication systems. Future wireless communication
transmitters are challenged to improve their performance with reduced power
consumption. Work performed in this thesis aims at improving several key areas of a
wireless transmitter architecture to be more efficient and reliant on their power
consumption.
A novel calibration technique based on constellation mapping of a quadrature
amplitude modulated (QAM) signal is proposed to alleviate the analog impairments
within a wireless transmitter at system level. This technique facilitates the mixed-signal
approach towards building efficient, linear transmitters.
A primary front-end component of a wireless transmitter is the Power Amplifier
(PA). Advanced architectures for PAs with improved power efficiency need to be
explored for these future wireless communication systems. Ameliorations made towards
improving the hardware structure in literature provides a variety of advanced power
amplifier architectures. In analyzing the needs for the future mobile communication
standards, and the complex nature of the signals involved, the Doherty power amplifier
(DPA) architecture has indicated promise over the years. In this work, further
improvements have been made on existing state-of-the-art Doherty PA architectures to
aid wider-bandwidth operation to transmit at higher data rates. A distributed structure of
four-way digitally controlled inputs has been suggested and its operation was tested at
Ku-band frequency range.
Furthermore, in simulating advanced PA architectures such as mentioned above,
the time taken to perform a single simulation for a PA is significant. As a result, in-order
to perform a system level simulation of a transmitter with several PA’s and other
components will be even more apparent and less convenient. Therefore, for futuristic
applications such as distributed arrays, a method of behavioral modeling of a fabricated
asymmetrical DPA is suggested and tested.
Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
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Keywords: | Analog; Digital; Co-design Methods; Wireless Transmitters; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering |
Item ID: | 10503 |
Depositing User: | IR eTheses |
Date Deposited: | 19 Feb 2019 12:38 |
URI: | https://mu.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/10503 |
Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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