This paper proposes a gate driver integrated circuit to prevent breakdown of switching power amplifiers. The proposed circuit consists of a dead-time generator, level shifters, and a breakdown blocker. The dead-time generator makes non-overlapped input signals and the breakdown blocker detects instantaneous turned-on input signals and resets them to the off-state before the switching power cell...

Optical packet switching has received considerable attention over the last few years. In this paper we discus how optical signal processing can play a role in photonic packet routing. Two examples are given. Firstly we discuss ultrafast wavelength switching at 160 Gbit/s in a single semiconductor optical amplifier. Secondly, an integrated photonic flip-flop is discussed. Finally a discussion is...

The layout design of hysteresis controlled switching-mode amplifier for fourth generation Long-Term Evolution (4G LTE) applications is presented in this paper. Those circuits are used in envelope amplifiers (EAs) architectures, which supply voltage to the transmitter’s power amplifier (PA). The proper layout design can help to improve the overall efficiency of EA, because most of the energy del...

A new ripple feedback filter is presented for Analog/Digital mixed-mode amplifier (MMA) among audio applications. MMA is composed of two amplifiers: one is analog amplifier responsible for high fidelity and the other is digital switching amplifer in charge of high efficiency. To improve both total harmonic distortion (THD) and efficiency, passive RLC filter is needed at the output side of the d...

i ABSTRACT Nowadays transducers are ubiquitous as interfaces between the increasingly digital world and the real physical world. The same holds for the power amplifiers driving them. This thesis focuses on the design and optimization of high-voltage class-D amplifiers, which are used for driving capacitive piezoelectric actuator loads in active vibration/noise control applications. The main obj...

Wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM) technology has been developing in broadband optical networks. The wavelength range used in fiber transmission systems has been increasing by employing various kinds of fiber amplifiers. In order to make it possible to handle signals of multiple wavelengths efficiently in network nodes, wavelength-selective processing in switching, routing and buffering sys...