Comparison of S-band Analog and Dual-Input Digital Doherty Power Amplifiers

A. Piacibello, M. Pirola, V. Camarchia, C. Ramella, R. Quaglia, X. Zhou, W. Chan
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This work aims at assessing the performance improvement offered by a dual-input digitally driven Doherty power amplifier (DPA) with respect to the single-input topology. To this aim, an analog DPA is designed and characterized. The equivalent digital version, which only differs by the absence of the input power divider, is also realized and analyzed. This ensures a fair comparison of the two topologies. Power-dependent input signal splitting between the main and auxiliary branches as well as adaptive phase alignment are adopted in the digital version to compensate for the back-off efficiency degradation as well as other shortcomings typically shown by traditional analog DPAs. For the first time, the performance figures of merit of the equivalent analog and digital DPAs are compared one-to-one systematically. The comparison over the 3.1-3.7 GHz range shows a superior efficiency performance of the digital DPA over the analog one, both at saturation and in back-off. Furthermore, the dual-input control also ensures higher gain and saturated output power.
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s波段模拟和双输入数字多尔蒂功率放大器的比较
这项工作旨在评估双输入数字驱动Doherty功率放大器(DPA)相对于单输入拓扑所提供的性能改进。为此,设计并表征了模拟DPA。本文还实现并分析了等效的数字版本,其不同之处在于没有输入分压器。这确保了两种拓扑的公平比较。在数字版本中,采用功率相关的主辅助支路输入信号分割以及自适应相位对准,以弥补传统模拟dpa通常显示的退退效率下降以及其他缺点。首次系统地对等效模拟和数字dpa的性能指标进行了一对一的比较。在3.1-3.7 GHz范围内的比较表明,数字DPA在饱和和回退情况下都优于模拟DPA。此外,双输入控制还保证了更高的增益和饱和输出功率。
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