This practical resource introduces power amplifier (PA) design and a valuable reference and guide for practicing PA designers. The book considers the device technology and the interaction of the transistor with the circuit, providing a frequency-based approach to enable narrow-band and wide-band PA designs, accommodating the practical trade-offs between performance and costs, and including system-level considerations such as linearization and efficiency enhancement techniques.
Design Life Cycles; Requirement Capture; Architectural Design (Tradeoffs); Engineering Budgets; ICDs; Verification; Engineering Governance; Hardware Architecture; Test Plans; Designing the System; Component Selection; De-Rating; Connectorization; Decoupling; Design Integrity; PCB Layout Considerations; Bringing the Design Up; FPGA Development Overview; Good Design Practice; State Machines; Safer State Machines; How FPGAs do Maths; CORDIC Algorithm; Test Benches; Digital Filters within FPGAs; Interfacing ADC and DAC; What is Reliability; What does MTBF Mean?; Finding Your Place on the Bathtub Curve; Redundancy; Failure Mode; Worst Case Analysis; Reliability Figure Calculations.
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Adam Taylor
is founder and lead consultant at Adiuvo Engineering & Training Ltd. He received his BEng. In electronic engineering from Sheffield Hallam University He is a Senior Member of IEEE.
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Dan Binnun
is a co-founder and president of E3 DESIGNERS. He received his BSEE from the University of Hartford.
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Saket Srivastava
is a senior lecturer and program leader in electrical engineering at the University of Lincoln. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering at the University of South Florida.