Souheil Ben Smida

MasterCamp©

ADVANCED POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN ENGINEERING

ADVANCED RADIOFREQUENCY POWER AMPLIFIER DESIGN

DESCRIPTION

With the advent of 5G and the need for ever increasing connectivity, new requirements and restrictions of the associated applications demand the adoption of research by the industry allowing the translation of innovative ideas into products. One of the key components – if not the most important – for any wireless communications system is the power amplifier (PA). Although PAs have been the focus of research for many decades resulting in a vast number of architectures and implementations, it is still unclear why certain types of PAs have dominated particular applications and what are the key aspects that a new architecture must possess to outplace an established solution. This course will introduce the most prominent techniques for sub-6GHz and mmWave PAs and discuss them in the context highly efficient architectures. The course, inspired from both academia and industry practices, will discuss the theory and variations of the Doherty, outphasing, Envelope Tracking and Digital Pre-Distortion.

REQUIREMENTS

  • familiar with RF engineering techniques such as active and passive components modelling, S parameters, and impedance matching
  • familiar with matlab and Advanced Design System
  • PC with internet connection with a student license for Matlab and ADS
  • Language English/French

WHO IS THIS COURSE FOR

This  MasterCamp© aims to help students, researchers and RF engineers become familiar with PA efficiency/linearity enhancement techniques and inform them on the directions their research should focus in order to maximise their impact.

THIS MasterCamp© INCLUDES
  • 10 sessions covering theory of PA design with emphasis on implementations
  •  coursework to practice PA design methods and illustrate some fundamental concepts of highly efficient PA architectures
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
  • master PAs design procedures for a specific application
  • understand PAs operation from a device and system perspectives
  • use industry standard CAD tools to design and optimise a PA
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My Story

I received the M.Sc. degree in electronics and instrumentation from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie Paris 6, Paris, France, in 2000, and a Ph.D. degree in electronics and communications from ‘’ Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications’’, Paris, in 2005. I was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the iRadio Laboratory, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada, from 2006 to 2008. Also a lecturer of electrical and electronic engineering with the University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K.

I’m currently an associate professor in Heriot-Watt University. I also contributed to more than 60 publications and co-invented three US patents in the field of nonlinear characterization and linearization of power amplifiers for mobile and satellite applications, microwave instrumentation, and RADAR technology applied to healthcare applications.

Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden flows by their place and supplies it with the necessary regelialia.

Where I’ve Worked

2022
Performance of Matrix Decomposition Algorithms in 5G NR MIMO Precoding
2021
CW Radar Based System with Automated DC Offset Reduction for Heartbeat Detection
2020
Heartbeat and Respiration Detection Using a Low Complexity CW Radar System
2018-2019
Analysis of optimal outphasing load trajectories for GaN Pas

Skills you will gain

wireless Technology

  • Wireless Network
  • mmWave
  • Industrial IoT
  • Massive MIMO
  • 5G
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