Automated RF Power Amplifier Optimization and Design: From Lumped Elements to Distributed Elements

Lida Kouhalvandi; Osman Ceylan; Serdar Ozoguz

doi:10.1109/TELFOR48224.2019.8971160

Automated RF Power Amplifier Optimization and Design: From Lumped Elements to Distributed Elements

Lida Kouhalvandi, Osman Ceylan, Serdar Ozoguz

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering

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Abstract

This study presents an automated RF power amplifier design procedure and methods which aim to convert systematically built-in lumped elements to distributed elements by simultaneously optimizing power gain, output power and efficiency. This approach which is performed by using Bayesian optimization results in ready-to-fabricate optimized designs with layout. The optimization process is performed automatically by using a commercial electronic design automation and a mathematical computing environment. To validate the proposed strategy, a power amplifier consisting of a 10 W GaN HEMT is designed for 1.7 - 2.3 GHz band frequency. The power amplifier provides an efficiency of between 53 % - 63 % at the 3 dB gain compression and linear power gain higher than 14 dB in the operation band.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781728147895
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TELFOR48224.2019.8971160
Publication status	Published - Nov 2019
Event	27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019 - Belgrade, Serbia Duration: 26 Nov 2019 → 27 Nov 2019

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Name	27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019

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Conference	27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019
Country/Territory	Serbia
City	Belgrade
Period	26/11/19 → 27/11/19

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© 2019 IEEE.

Funding

This work is supported by Istanbul Technical University the Scientific Research Projects Unit Under Grant No. MDK-2019-41968. L. Kouhalvandi is with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 34467 Istanbul, Turkey (e-mail: [email protected]). O. Ceylan is an independent Researcher, Ontario, CA, USA (e-mail: [email protected]). S. Ozoguz is with the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Istanbul Technical University, 34467 Istanbul, Turkey (e-mail: [email protected]). 978-1-7281-4790-1/19/$31.00 c 2019 IEEE.

Funders	Funder number
Istanbul Technical University the Scientific Research Projects Unit	MDK-2019-41968

Keywords

Bayesian Optimization
distributed components
Gallium Nitride (GaN) high-electron mobility transistor (HEMT)
lumped elements
power amplifier
SRFT

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Kouhalvandi, L, Ceylan, O & Ozoguz, S 2019, Automated RF Power Amplifier Optimization and Design: From Lumped Elements to Distributed Elements. in 27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019., 8971160, 27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019, Belgrade, Serbia, 26/11/19. https://doi.org/10.1109/TELFOR48224.2019.8971160

Automated RF Power Amplifier Optimization and Design: From Lumped Elements to Distributed Elements. / Kouhalvandi, Lida; Ceylan, Osman; Ozoguz, Serdar.
27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2019. 8971160 (27th Telecommunications Forum, TELFOR 2019).

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