Sigma-delta digital drive signals for switch-mode power amplifiers

摘要

A novel all-digital approach to generate a pulse train to drive switch-mode power amplifiers is proposed. Sigma-delta (ΣΔ) techniques are used to shape time quantisation noise away from the band of interest. The proposed architecture promises greater than 10 dB improvement in adjacent channel power over an existing scheme. The key contribution is to quantise in the polar domain while performing the ΣΔ filtering in the Cartesian domain.