Dynamic Power Supply Transmitters

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).

• Part I. Motivations, Definitions, and Principles: 1. Motivations; 2. Definitions; 3. Dynamic power supply common principles; 4. Linear power amplifiers; 5. Envelope tracking principles; 6. Polar transmitter principles; Part II. DPST Circuit Issues: 7. Linear PA circuit considerations for ET; 8. Intentional circuit compression; 9. Dynamic power supplies (TX is power sig proc, not NRG based); 10. Device technologies: special issues for DPS use; 11. Hybrid system combinations; 12. Multistage modulation; Part III. Testing and Manufacturability: 13. Testing and calibration techniques; Appendix A. Switching transistor evaluation metrics across technologies.