26.02.2028 12:32 (23) 5 Reasons to Try a 3D Smith Char for Broadband PA Design| Linkedin Ha S. 5 Reasons to Try a 3D Smith Chart for Broadband PA Design 27 Nisan 2017 If you'te looking for help designing a broadband Fower ‘Amplifier (PA), the 3D Smith Chart may be just the answer for you. 3D Smith Charts can be easily generated from Keysight’s Advanced Design System (ADS) software usi Python scripts. You don't even need to know Python ‘A Data Link with Python in ADS provides a simple way for you to call pre-programmed Python scripts, complete with bi-directional data transfer. The Cylindrical 3D Smith Chart (also called the "Smith Tube’) was pioneered by a team at Baylor University led by Dx Baylis and presented in a landmark IEEE WAMICON paper in 2014 that introduced the "Smith Tube" in the literature for the very first time (see more references at the end). Here are 5 ways a 3D Smith Chart can help you design a broadband PA: hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-try-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarsham! 1926.02.2028 12:32 (23) 5 Reasons to Try @ 3D Smith Chart fr Broadband PA Design | Linkedin 1. It gives you a unique perspective and fast insight into resonance. Figure 1. This LC impedance matching network topology may at frst seem simple to analyze Figure 2. Its not always obvious, why, for example, a particular resonant infection occurs in the $22 response suck as the one shown at 1.52 GHz While an LC impedance matching network for a PA design may seem simple to analyze, understanding why @ resonance inflection occurs is not always easy (Figure 1 anc 2). f you can get to the root cf the resonance, you can exploit it to build a broadband match, A 3D Smith Chart allows you to do just that. By plotting the impedance shift of each individual matching component at each frequency, you can find the cause of a resonance and determine what adjustments are needed to mitigate its effects (Figure 3) hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-ty-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarnham! 2926.02.2028 12:32 (23) 5 Reasons to Try @ 3D Smith Chart fr Broadband PA Design | Linkedin Wren x) poor ome LctatenTaectan vs Frequency ‘aver == goorte a Use midale Meuse, UprDoun arrows to Select DatstSéturn Figure 3. From these 3D plots, now we can see the resonance around 1.5 GHz occurs due to the impedance from C3, which hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-ty-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarnham! aio26.02.2028 12:32 (23) 5 Reasons to Try a 3D Smith Char for Broadband PA Design | Likedn is ‘spinning" around the impedance set by the rest cf the network, 2. You can create a solid 3D surface. Figure 4. An example EVM surface represented by a set of cad-pull contours is shown. By viewing the entire surface in this format, some interesting things stand out that aren't immediately obvious from the contours. In FA design, load pull is typically used to sweep a transistors load and plot contours of constant performance (eg, output power). Load-pull contours are a flat representation of a 3D surface. Sometimes they are easy to interpret and design with, but using them to interpret the surface topology cf complex structures can be challenging Plotting the entire surface as a 3D solid structure can be very insightful in some instances, for example, finding the ‘minimum EVM region cf a PA under a modulated input signal (Figure 4), hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-ty-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarnham! 4926.02.2028 12:32 235 3. You can extend contours to the third dimension. sasons to Try @ 3D Smith Chart fr Broadband PA Design | Linkedin Figure 5. A plot of load-pull contours in 3D (with the third dimension being frequency) is shown. Suppose you're trying to design an amplifier to deliver high output power over a broad tandwidth Typically this would be done by performing Icad-pull simulations at several frequencies and then trying to build a matching network to hit the correct loads to deliver the power required for each individual frequency. Using a 10 Smith Chart, this would be a long, difficult process, resulting in so much clutter on the plot that you would likely be unable to make sense of the results. Typically, 2 designer can only visualize one contour or single frequency set cf contours ata time, Plotting the same contours on 30 Smith Chart “spreads out" the contours and allows you to visualize more information at once (Figure 5). 4. You can create a surface from cross-sectional data. hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-try-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarsham!26.02.2028 12:32 (23) 5 Reasons to Try a 3D Smith Chart for Broadband PA Design| Linkedin Figure 6. Another way to visualize the frequency dependent power contours in Figure 5 is to create a solid surface by connecting the contours together in the Z dimension With a 3D Smith Chart you can create a solid “triangulated” surface by connecting the contours together in the Z: dimension. This provides you yet another way to visualize the contour data in 3 dimensions. In some cases, contour surfaces are easier to understand than repeated individual contours 5. You can plot your 3D matching network and frequency-dependent load-pull contours on the same 3D Smith Chart. Wrovet — = [soot cme | hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-try-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarsham!26.02.2028 12:32 (23) 5 Reasons to Try @ 3D Smith Chart fr Broadband PA Design | Linkedin Figure 7. The 3D matching network and the frequency- dependent load pull contours are plotted on the same 30 Smith Chart By plotting this data together its intuitive to adjust the matching network component values so that the impedance “threads the needle" through the Pout power contour level across the frequency band, An interactive highlight marker in ADS helps you gain insight into what adjustments are needed These 5 applications cf the 3D Smith Chart came from my friend, Matt Ozalas, RF Design Expert. Hear from him yourself in his May 4th, 2017 webcast, Four Ways to Boost Simulation Data Processing Using Python. References For more information on the “3D Smith Tube' from the team at Baylor University, see the following IEEE papers 1. Joseph Barkate ; Matthew Fellows ; Jennifer Barlow Charles Baylis ; Robert J. Marks. ‘The Power Smith Tube: Joint optimization of power amplifier input power and load impedance for power-added efficiency and adjacent- channel power ratio’. IEEE Wamicon, 2015. https iecexplore.ieee.org/document/7120398/ 2. Matthew Fellows ; Matthew Flachsbart ; Jennifer Barlow Joseph Barkate ; Charles Baylis ; Lawrence Cohen ; Robert Marks. "Optimization of power-amplifier load impedance and waveform bandwidth for real-time reconfigurable hitps:lwwu linkedin com/pulselS-reasons-try-3¢-smith-chart-broadband-pa-design-kaellyfarsham! 7195.022028 12:32 (23)5 Reasons to Try 83D Smith Char for Broadband PA Design | Linkedin radar’. IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems ( Volume: 51, Issue: 3, July 2015 ). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/6857780 3. Matthew Fellows, Sarvin Rezayat.Jennifer Barlow, Joseph Barkate, Alexander Tsatsoulas Charles Baylis Lawrence Cohen. ‘The bias smith tube: Simultaneous optimization of bias voltage and load impedance in power amplifier design.” Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), IEEE. 24-27 Jan. 2016. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7444408/ 4. Charles Baylis; Matthew Fellows; Matthew Flachsbart; Jennifer Barlow; Joseph Barkate; Robert J. Marks. "Enabling the Internet of Things: Reconfigurable power amplifier techniques using intelligent algorithms and the smith tube". 2014 IEEE Dallas Circuits and Systems Conference (OCAS). http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6965341/ Buna bien vayinlayan: @ Kaelyfarnhar 26yan Tipe) Pu Mange at sit el bese Dorum Yop 3 eyes O27 pa Reaksiyonlar &EOA2QE80228 6 Yorum niga @ Yorum ete. ea Niels Koch «3+ yo adr Rt pene ‘ow we have the visualization Tool for a Fist clas RF Engineer! Thanks the wonderulidea! 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