LEE- Elektronik Mühendisliği-Doktora

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Yazar "Kouhalvandi, Lida" ile LEE- Elektronik Mühendisliği-Doktora'a göz atma
  • Öge
    Design and implementation of high power GaN amplifiers with nonlinear optimization techniques
    (Lisansüstü Eğitim Enstitüsü, 2021) Kouhalvandi, Lida ; Özoğuz, İsmail Serdar ; 671561 ; Elektronik ve Haberleşme Mühendisliği
    In this thesis new and novel optimization methodologies will be prepared to design nonlinear circuits operating at high frequencies. These novel methods can be used to optimize circuits with realistic models and process design kits (PDKs). Thus, nonlinear and complex power amplifiers with wide-band and high-efficient specifications can be designed by applying the proposed optimization algorithms. The developed script runs on a computer and manages the nonlinear simulator and numerical analyzer to optimize the challenging nonlinear circuit design problems regarding the design rules and conditions set by the designer and requirements. The proposed optimization algorithms are implemented in an automated environment with the combinations of electronic design automation (EDA) tool such as ADS and numeric analyzer as MATLAB. This process decreases the dependency to any designer's experience and without any human interruption all the optimization process is performed automatically. Power amplifiers (PAs) consisting of Gallium Nitride (GaN) high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) will be designed with the proposed optimization algorithms. The PAs' efficiency, gain response, linearity, and bandwidth will be optimized to achieve high performance results regarding the reported studies. The PAs operate at saturation mode and nonlinear region; hence, high dimensions of variables are achieved. EDA tools such as ADS, AWR, etc. include nonlinear optimizations and are successful tools in optimizing circuits; however, additional powerful optimizations are required to deal with large amount of data. Also, the commercial EDA tools face with the problems when the unreliable nonlinear models are used during the optimization process.Therefore, a need for the new simulation environment that is the combination of the EDA tool and numerical analyzer becomes essential. Regarding to the difficulties in commercial EDA tools, it becomes necessary to propose an optimization strategy suitable for nonlinear circuits to be reliable for simulating nonlinear models and also able to challenge many trade-offs of high power amplifiers (HPAs) such as efficiency, linearity and gain flatness. The scope of the proposed methods are based on scrip development for two processes: i) a scrip to control nonlinear simulator (ADS) and numerical analyzer (MATLAB), ii) algorithms to optimize the circuit parameters. These algorithms result in high performance PAs in terms of efficiency, output power, gain, and linearity. The used transistor model is GaN technology due to the several advantages for radio frequency (RF) circuits such as high power density, high thermal conductivity, large breakdown voltage, and good reliability. This technology is suitable for future applications of radar and fifth generation (5G) systems. The importance of this work is divided in to four sections: 1) Providing an automated environment that is a reliable simultaneous co-operation of EDA tool (ADS) and mathematical analyzer (MATLAB); 2) Proposing novel optimization strategy based on intelligent algorithms for RF nonlinear circuits results in best high performance; 3) Substituting the proposed novel optimization technique to the automated environment; and 4) Optimizing the whole PA designs automatically and comparing the results of fabricated PAs with the simulation outcomes.