Astarloa, Armando, Bidarte, Unai, Dooley, John, Canniff, Alan and Farrell, Ronan (2009) SPAlink: A Flexible Bitstream Link for Class S-Power Amplifiers. Applied Electronics, 2009. (AE 2009) Pilsen. pp. 31-36. ISSN 1803-7232
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Abstract
In this paper a multi-platform HDL
description of a circuit that implements all the
digital processing and RF carrier generation for
the class S Power Amplifier proposed by the
Institute of Microelectronics and Wireless Systems
is presented. The circuit is the combination of a
lowpass sigma-delta modulation stage in series
with a frequency shifting stage that generates the
bitstream that drives a switch mode amplifier
followed by a bandpass filter. This HDL
description is that it can be implemented not only
on high-end FPGAs but on low-cost devices as
well. The 8 parameters that define at compilation
time the final implementation are presented and
four implementations are discussed in this work.
The design is validated with data measured in the
simulation and in the prototype.
Item Type: | Article |
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Additional Information: | This work has been partially supported by the Government of the Basque Country within the research project IE08-221. |
Keywords: | band-pass filters; digital signal processing chips; field programmable gate arrays; hardware description languages; power amplifiers; radiofrequency amplifiers; sigma-delta modulation; |
Academic Unit: | Faculty of Science and Engineering > Electronic Engineering Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Institute of Microelectronics and Wireless Systems |
Item ID: | 2402 |
Identification Number: | Print ISBN: 978-80-7043-781-0 |
Depositing User: | Ronan Farrell |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2011 15:31 |
Journal or Publication Title: | Applied Electronics, 2009. (AE 2009) Pilsen |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Refereed: | Yes |
Funders: | Government of the Basque Country |
Related URLs: | |
URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/2402 |
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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