RF Power Amplifier Behavioral Modeling

Dominique Schreurs is Associate Professor in ESAT-TELEMIC, Telecommunications and Microwaves, Department of Electrical Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, where she also gained her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1997. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Chair of the IEEE MTT-11 technical committee on microwave measurements. Máirtín O'Droma is Director of the Telecommunications Research Centre, and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering at the University of Limerick. A Fellow of the IET and Senior Member of the IEE, he is a founding partner and steering committee member of TARGET (Top Amplifier Research Groups in European Team) and a section head of the RF power linearization and amplifier modeling research strand. Anthony A. Goacher is Research Projects Manager of the Telecommunications Research Centre, University of Limerick. A Physicist with microwave R&D experience, he has an MBA, is a Member of the IET, an Associate Member of the Institute of Physics, and has held a senior management position in the electronics industry for 20 years. Michael Gadringer is a Research Assistant in the Institute of Electrical Measurements and Circuit Design, Vienna University of Technology. He is currently involved in the design of linearized power amplifiers and device characterization.

1. Power amplifier modelling overview; 2. Properties of behavioural models; 3. Nonlinear memoryless models; 4. Nonlinear models with linear memory; 5. Nonlinear models with non-linear memory; 6. Validation and comparison of PA models; 7. Aspects of system simulation; Appendicies: A. Recent wireless standards; B. Abbreviations; C. Authors and contributors.