Mathematical Problems in Engineering

Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 709762, 18 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/709762

Research Article

General Description of Nonnegative Waveforms up to Second Harmonic for Power Amplifier Modelling

Anamarija Juhas and Ladislav A. Novak

Department of Power, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia

Received 9 April 2014; Accepted 21 May 2014; Published 25 June 2014

Academic Editor: Matjaz Perc

Copyright © 2014 Anamarija Juhas and Ladislav A. Novak. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

General description of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic in terms of independent (unconstrained) parameters is provided. Three important subclasses of the class of nonnegative waveforms are also fully characterised: nonnegative waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed amplitude of second harmonic, nonnegative waveforms with maximal coefficient of cosine part of fundamental harmonic for prescribed coefficients of second harmonic, and nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero. We prove that members of the first two subclasses have at least one zero; that is, they also belong to the third subclass. Nonnegative cosine waveforms up to second harmonic are also considered and characterised. A number of case studies of practical interest for power amplifier (PA) design, involving nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic, are also considered.

1. Introduction

In electrical engineering, the problem of shaping/modelling drain (collector, plate) waveforms in PA design, in order to improve efficiency, is of ultimate interest. It is largely related to the problem of finding nonnegative waveforms and as such attracted both engineers (e.g., see [1–7]) and mathematicians (e.g., see [8, 9]).

The family of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic has proved to be of particular interest for range of modes named class- or class- [6, 10, 11], inverse class [12], external second harmonic injection [13], and PA with arbitrary harmonic terminations [4]. In spite of frequent usage of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic in PA design, according to our best knowledge, this is the first result providing general description of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic in terms of independent (unconstrained) parameters. This problem of finding general description which naturally arises from engineering practice has proved to be a nontrivial mathematical problem.

In this paper, we consider normalized waveform with first two harmonics (trigonometric polynomial of order two):

aiming to provide closed form expressions for coefficients , , , and in terms of independent parameters such that the following condition holds:

Relations (1) and (2) refer to the class of nonnegative waveforms (Section 2).

We also consider a subclass of nonnegative waveforms that satisfy additional condition:

for at least one (Section 5). We prove that this subclass includes all nonnegative waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic, when second harmonic amplitude is prescribed (Section 3), and all nonnegative waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient , when coefficients and are prescribed (Section 4). General description of nonnegative cosine waveforms is provided in Section 6. In Section 7, a number of case studies related to the efficiency of PA with nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic are considered. Figure 1 describes relationship between considered classes of nonnegative waveforms.

Figure 1: Class of nonnegative waveforms (S1) and its subclasses containing waveforms with at least one zero (S2), waveforms with maximal for prescribed (S3), and waveforms with for prescribed and (S4).

In the quest for shape zoology of waveforms of type (1), it is enough to consider the following generic two-parameter family of waveforms:

This is because all waveforms of type (1) can be obtained from (4) by appropriate usage of the following three operations: shifting along axis and introducing additive and/or multiplicative constants. Notice that these operations do not inherently change waveform shape.

To each waveform of type (4) corresponds a pair or equivalently a pair and vice versa. The zoo of shapes is presented in Figure 2. Bolded curve in Figure 2 divides the parameter space into three disjoint subsets (inner part, outer part, and solid line itself) and helps in making classification of the shapes of waveforms. The points of this curve constitute the so-called catastrophe set and correspond to those pairs for which there exist such that both first and second derivatives of the waveform at are equal to zero:

An analogous consideration of waveform shapes with first and third harmonic is presented in [5].

Figure 2: Parameter space and waveforms of the family (4).

Waveforms that correspond to the inner points have one minimum and one maximum, whereas the waveforms that correspond to the outer points have two minima and two maxima. Points on the solid line correspond to the waveforms with one minimum, one maximum, and one inflection point. Two cusp points and correspond to the maximally flat waveforms (e.g., see [5]), with maximally flat minimum and maximally flat maximum, respectively.

2. General Description of Nonnegative Waveforms up to Second Harmonic

In this section, we provide general description of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic in terms of four independent (unconstrained) parameters, along with a number of special cases.

The main result of this section is stated in the following proposition.

Proposition 1. For every waveform of type (1) satisfying condition (2), coefficients , , , and can be expressed in terms of four independent (unconstrained) parameters , , , and as

Proof. Let

be a complex polynomial on the unit circle () such that parameters , , , , , and satisfy the following constraint:

According to the classical result related to trigonometric polynomials ([8]; see also [14]), all trigonometric polynomials of type (1) satisfying condition (2) can be expressed as

As shown in [8], coefficients , , , and can be expressed in terms of six parameters , , , , , and in the following form:

providing that relation (11) holds.

In what follows, we will show that coefficients , , , and can be expressed in terms of four arbitrary parameters, instead of six parameters , , , , , and constrained by (11).

We start with the observation that hypersphere (11) can be written in terms of new parameter as

Furthermore, the sphere (17) can be also parameterised by introducing new parameter as follows:

In a similar way, hypersphere (18) can be parameterised by introducing further three parameters , , and as follows:

Inserting (21)–(24) into (13)–(16) yields

By introducing parameters and defined as

coefficients , , , and (see (25)–(28)) can be expressed in four parameters only , , and , taking into consideration that

which completes the proof.

Notice that substitution of (6)–(9) into (1) lead to the following forms of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic:

Remark 2. Maximum value of amplitude of fundamental harmonic of nonnegative waveform of type (1) is and corresponding amplitude of second harmonic is .

In order to show that, let

From (8)-(9) and (6)-(7), it follows that

respectively. According to (32) and (34), amplitude of second harmonic of nonnegative waveform of type (1) is

According to (33) and (35), amplitude of fundamental harmonic of nonnegative waveform of type (1) is

It is easy to see that, according to (33), the maximum value can be attained if and only if and . Therefore, maximum value of amplitude of fundamental harmonic of nonnegative waveform of type (1) is . From and , it also follows that and . Consequently, (34) and (36) imply that amplitude of second harmonic of nonnegative waveform of type (1) with is .

Remark 3. A number of special cases of nonnegative waveforms (1) with or , each corresponding to a specific parameter choice, are listed in Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7.

Table 1: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

Table 2: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

Table 3: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

Table 4: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

Table 5: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

Table 6: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

Table 7: Coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with .

Constraint

Condition

Parameter choice

Coefficients

3. Nonnegative Waveforms with Maximal Fundamental Harmonic Amplitude

In this section, we provide general description of nonnegative waveforms of type (1) with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed second harmonic amplitude .

According to (34) and (36), for nonnegative waveforms of type (1), the following relation holds:

This explains why amplitude of second harmonic in Proposition 4 goes through interval only.

Proposition 4. Every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed amplitude of second harmonic can be represented as

if , or

if , providing that

Remark 5. As an immediate consequence of (39) and (40), it follows that every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed amplitude of second harmonic has at least one zero.

Remark 6. Conversion of (39) and (40) into an additive form and comparison with (1) immediately lead to the explicit form of coefficients of nonnegative waveforms of type (1) with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed second harmonic amplitude.

Conversion of (39) into an additive form lead to the following explicit form of coefficients:

From (39), it follows immediately that is nonnegative if and only if .

Conversion of (40) into an additive form lead to the following explicit form of coefficients:

It is easy to see that implies and if and only if .

Three examples of nonnegative waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed second harmonic amplitude and prescribed position of zero , are presented in Figure 3 for and . The waveform represented by solid line corresponds to and the other two waveforms correspond to (notice that , according to (41), implies ).

Figure 3: Nonnegative waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed second harmonic amplitude and .

Remark 7. Nonnegative waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic when can be expressed in the form

Waveforms (44) are so-called maximally flat waveform of type (1) (e.g., see [5]).

Remark 8. According to (42), (43), and (41), maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic of nonnegative waveforms of type (1) can be expressed as a function of second harmonic amplitude (see Figure 4):

Figure 4: Maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic as a function of .

Proof of Proposition 4. Let us consider nonnegative waveform of type (1) and let be a position of its global minimum; that is, .

If , then, according to (32), and/or . For from (33) it follows that . On the other hand, , according to (33), implies . Therefore, maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic is equal to 1 and hence , which coincides with (39) for .

In what follows, we assume that , which, from (32), implies . Since does not depend on and , according to (33), the maximal amplitude of the fundamental harmonic can be attained if and only if

Relation (46) and imply . Therefore, and hold, which further, from (6) and (7), imply

providing that

Similarly, (46) implies and , which further, according to (8), (9), and (32), imply

Insertion of (47) and (49) into (1) lead to , which can be rewritten as

Let be a position of global minimum of ; that is, . It is easy to see that is minimal when is minimal. In what follows, we will consider two cases: Case (i) and Case (ii) .

In Case (i), there are two options for expression to be minimal: either for and or for and . Furthermore, implies , which is equivalent to . Therefore, maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic is

From and (51), it follows that and therefore

The first option of the Case (i) reduces to and , while the second option of the Case (i) reduces to and . Substitution of any of these options into (50) results in

Factorisation of (53) immediately lead to (39), which proves that (39) holds for .

From the previous consideration, it follows that, in Case (ii), it is enough to consider

only. In this case, according to (50), position of global minimum corresponds to the situation when holds. Consequently,

Also, implies and therefore maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic is

Substitution of (55) and (56) into (50) lead to , which can be rewritten as

Also, from (55) and (56), it follows that

Substituting in (57)-(58) by lead to (40)-(41), which proves that (40)-(41) hold for .

Finally, for , from (41), it follows that , which further implies and therefore (40) and (39) coincide for . This completes the proof.

4. Nonnegative Waveforms with Maximal Coefficient of Cosine Part of Fundamental Harmonic

Problem of finding nonnegative waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient is of particular interest in PA efficiency analysis. In a number of cases of interest, one waveform of the voltage-current pair (e.g., current) is already known and usually has only cosine part of fundamental harmonic (e.g., see [7]). In such cases, the problem of finding maximal efficiency for prescribed second harmonic impedance can be reduced to the problem of finding nonnegative voltage waveform with maximal absolute value of coefficient providing that coefficients and are prescribed (see also Section 7.3).

The following proposition provides closed form expressions for nonnegative waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient for prescribed second harmonic coefficients and .

Proposition 9. Every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal absolute value of coefficient for prescribed second harmonic coefficients and can be represented as

if and ,

if and , or

if , providing that

Remark 10. As an immediate consequence of (59)–(61), it follows that every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal absolute value of coefficient , for prescribed second harmonic coefficients and , has at least one zero.

Remark 11. Conversion of (59)–(61) into an additive form and comparison with (1) immediately lead to the explicit form of coefficients and . For , conversion of (59) and (60) into an additive form lead to

respectively. Notice that implies

On the other hand, implies and therefore

According to (63) and (64), fundamental harmonic amplitude of waveforms (59)-(60) is . Its value, according to (65)-(66), is less than maximal value of fundamental harmonic amplitude for prescribed second harmonic amplitude (see (45)), except for or when they are equal.

For , conversion of (61) into an additive form together with (62) lead to

if , or

if . According to (67) and (68), amplitude of fundamental harmonic of waveform (61) is and according to (45) (notice that implies ) it coincides with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed amplitude of second harmonic.

The contours of maximal absolute value of coefficient as a function of coefficients and are plotted in Figure 5.

Figure 5: Contours of maximal absolute value of coefficients as a function of and .

Two examples of nonnegative waveforms with the same maximal absolute value of coefficient (one with and the other with ) for prescribed coefficients and (corresponding to the case ) are presented in Figure 6. Another two examples of nonnegative waveforms with the same maximal absolute value of coefficient (one with and the other with ) for prescribed coefficients and (corresponding to the case ) are presented in Figure 7.

Figure 6: Nonnegative waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient , , and .

Figure 7: Nonnegative waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient , , and .

Proof of Proposition 9. Let us consider nonnegative waveform of type (1) with coefficients , , , and expressed by (6)–(9) in terms of parameters , , , and .

According to (8) and (9), (i.e., ) implies and/or . For from (6) it follows that . On the other hand, implies either or . For , according to (6)-(7), it follows that and . For , according (6)-(7), it follows that and . In both cases ( and ), maximal absolute value of is equal to 1 and corresponding coefficient is equal to zero. Consequently, if , nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal absolute value of coefficient is either if or if . These two waveforms coincide with (59) and (60) for , respectively.

Suppose now that . According to (8)-(9) and (32), and . Since does not depend on and , it follows that and depend on only. Therefore, for prescribed and , which further implies that . Consequently, in the course of finding maximal absolute value of coefficient , we can set first derivative of in respect to to zero. By using and , from (6), we obtain

Second derivative of with respect to is equal to . It is positive (negative) if (). Therefore, (69) lead to maximal absolute value of coefficient . Substitution of into (7) and (9) multiplied with yields

respectively. From (6), (70), and (71), it follows that

The sum of squared (6) and squared (69) equals

From (8), it follows that (73) can be expressed as . It can be rewritten in the following form:

where, according to (32), . It is easy to see that, for prescribed , is maximal when is minimal. Accordingly, in what follows, we will consider the following two cases: Case (i) and Case (ii) .

Insertion of (Case (i)) into (32) lead to . Furthermore, implies

From , (74), (70), and (72), we obtain

where denotes sign function. Substitution of and into (1) lead to (59). Furthermore, substitution of and into (1) lead to (60).

In Case (ii) from and (74) it follows that ; that is,

Clearly, , that is,

implies , which, together with , further implies . Therefore, if and only if . Since if and only if and , from (70), (72), and (77), it follows that

Notice that can be written as , which, substituted in (79), yields

Insertion of (77) and (80) into (1) lead to

Since if and only if , it follows that , which further implies that (81) can be expressed as

From and , it follows that (82) can be rewritten as

where

Relation (78) implies and therefore for some . From (83),

Substitution of (85) into (83) yields , which can be rewritten as

Replacing by in (84)–(86), where is new variable, immediately lead to (61) and (62).

Finally, for and , from (62), it follows that or . For , according to (62), it follows that and . Consequently, (61) coincides with (59) for and . Similarly, for and , from (62), it follows that ,, and . Consequently, (61) coincides with (60) for and . This completes the proof.

5. Nonnegative Waveforms with at Least One Zero

In this section, we provide general description of nonnegative waveforms of type (1) with at least one zero, that is, waveforms for which and for some . Notice that conditions and imply that . This type of nonnegative waveforms have proved to be of particular interest in PA design (e.g., see [1, 3–7]). We also provide an algorithm for calculation of coefficients and of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero and prescribed coefficients and (Section 5.1).

Proposition 12. Every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with at least one zero can be expressed in the following form:

where , , and are arbitrary real numbers.

Proof. Notice that (12) can be rewritten as

which, after inserting (10), yields

Suppose that for some . Then, for , both squared terms in (89) are equal to zero; that is,

Substituting (90) into (89) and taking into account that , , and are given by (18), (14), and (16), respectively, we obtain

It is easy to show that all terms in (91) have common factor and therefore can be written as

Substituting (21)–(24) into (90) and then inserting resulting relations into (17), we obtain

Let us denote

Inserting (27)-(28) into (92), by using (93)-(94), we finally obtain (87).

Remark 13. Conversion of (87) into an additive form and comparison with (1) immediately lead to the explicit form of coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero:

According to (95) and (96), amplitude of fundamental harmonic is

Also, according to (97) and (98), amplitude of second harmonic is

Remark 14. Coefficients (95)–(98) of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero can be obtained from coefficients (6)–(9) of general case of nonnegative waveforms by substituting (see (94) and (30)), (see (93)-(94)), and

Remark 15. In Section 3 (see Proposition 4 and Remark 5), we show that every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed second harmonic amplitude has at least one zero. Coefficients (42) of waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed , when , can be obtained from (95)–(98) by replacing with and with . Similarly, coefficients (43) of waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed , when , can be obtained from (95)–(98) by replacing with 1 and with .

From the above consideration, it is easy to see that among nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero and prescribed second harmonic amplitude, there are waveforms for which the amplitude of fundamental harmonic is not maximal (e.g., see Figures 9 and 10).

Remark 16. In Section 4 (see Proposition 9 and Remark 10), we show that every nonnegative waveform of type (1) with maximal absolute value of coefficient for prescribed coefficients and has at least one zero. Coefficients (63) of waveforms with maximal coefficient , when , can be obtained from (95)–(98) by setting . Similarly, coefficients (64) of waveforms with minimal coefficient (also maximal absolute value), when , can be obtained from (95)–(98) by setting . Also, coefficients (67)-(68) of waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient , when , can be obtained from (95)–(98) by replacing with 1 and with .

From the above consideration, it is easy to see that among nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero and prescribed coefficients and , there are waveforms for which absolute value of coefficient is not maximal (e.g., see Figures 9 and 10).

5.1. Nonnegative Waveforms with Prescribed Second Harmonic Coefficients

In this subsection, an algorithm for calculation of fundamental harmonic coefficients of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero for prescribed second harmonic coefficients is provided. The range of instance at which waveform takes zero value depends on the chosen pair and .

Let us show first that lead to . According to (100), implies and . These relations from (99) further imply ; that is, . Therefore, in what follows we will consider only those pairs for which .

Solving (97)-(98) in terms of and , we obtain

where range of depends on the chosen pair .

A good part of this Subsection is devoted to finding this range. In this context, let us begin with substitution of (102) into . This lead to or equivalently to

The expressions in the square brackets can be considered as second degree polynomials in terms of with the following discriminants:

respectively. Since and for all , it follows that first factor is always positive. Therefore, inequality (103) is equivalent to

Consequently, the problem of finding range of , for which (102) holds, can be reformulated as the problem of finding those for which inequality (106) holds. The discussion involves discriminant (see (105)) and leading term coefficient

In what follows, we first consider all cases with . Let and be the roots of second degree polynomial on the left side of (106); that is,

According to (105) and (107), implies and (see Figure 8). Also and imply and (). Similarly, and imply and . Notice that () implies , which further implies , Thus, for :

(1)if , then (106) holds for every ,(2)if and , then (106) holds for every ,(3)if and , then (106) holds for

(4) if , then (106) holds for

where and are given by (108). For , (106) reduces to . Thus, for , we have another two cases:(5)if and , then (106) holds for

(6)if and , then (106) holds for every .

Figure 8: Circle , ellipse , and circle .

Figure 9: Nonnegative waveforms with one zero, , and .

Figure 10: Nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero, , and .

Notice that and imply , whereas and imply (see also Figure 8). Therefore, Cases (1), (2), and (6) can be merged into one case which reads the following: if , then (106) holds for every . In all other cases, namely, Cases (3), (4), and (5), holds. Cases (3), (4), and (5) correspond to , , and , respectively.

To obtain closed form expressions for coefficients and of nonnegative waveforms with zero at and prescribed coefficients and it is sufficient to substitute (102) into (95)-(96):

where range of is discussed earlier in this subsection (see Cases (1)–(6)). For , expressions (112)-(113) reduce to and .

Since the range of depends on the choice of pair we provide an algorithm to facilitate calculation of coefficients and of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero for prescribed coefficients and , providing that .

Algorithm 17. One has the following steps:

(i) calculate ;

(ii) if , then can take any value;

 else, if , calculate and from (108) and calculate range of according to (109);

 else, if calculate and from (108) and calculate range of according to (110);

else, calculate range of according to (111);

(iii) choose such that belongs to the range calculated in previous step;

(iv) if , then calculate and ;

else, calculate and according to (112) and (113), respectively.

As an example, nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero, , and are presented in Figure 9 for the following three choices of , , and . Since in this case , according to step (ii) of Algorithm 17, can be chosen without any restrictions. Another three examples of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero, and are presented in Figure 10 for the following choices of , , and . Since in this case and , according to step (ii) of Algorithm 17, can be chosen so that either or .

6. Nonnegative Cosine Waveforms

Nonnegative cosine waveforms play an important role in PA modelling (e.g., see [7]). In this section, we provide general description of nonnegative cosine waveforms as well as nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero. We show that nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero coincide with nonnegative cosine waveforms with maximal absolute value of coefficient for prescribed coefficient . Few examples of shapes of cosine waveforms are presented in Figure 11.

Figure 11: Shapes of cosine polynomials up to second harmonic.

According to [8], every nonnegative cosine polynomial (nonnegative trigonometric polynomial of type (1) with ) can be obtained from (10)–(12) by setting . Substitution of into (89) lead to the following description of nonnegative cosine polynomials:

where , , and satisfy the following constraint:

According to (20), (23), and (24), conditions in terms of parameters , , , , and can be rewritten as . Clearly, they are fulfilled, for example, for . Thus, according to (19), (21), and (22), parameters , , and become , , and . Inserting these expressions for , , and into (114) lead to the following form of nonnegative cosine polynomials:

which coefficients are

Expressions (117) provide general description of nonnegative cosine waveforms in terms of two independent parameters: and .

Description of nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero is presented in Proposition 18.

Proposition 18. Each nonnegative cosine waveform up to second harmonic with at least one zero can be represented in one of the following forms:

Remark 19. All nonnegative cosine waveforms up to second harmonic with at least one zero, except three of them, can be represented in exactly one of forms (118)–(120). For these three exceptions, there are two possible forms:

(i)waveform for which can be expressed in both forms (118) and (119);(ii)waveform for which and can be expressed in both forms (118) and (120);(iii)waveform for which and can be expressed in both forms (119) and (120).

Proof of Proposition 18. We shall first consider nonnegative waveforms of type (1) with at least one zero for which and then include additional condition . All such waveforms can be obtained from (87), (96), and (98). Thus, according to (98), implies , which further lead to . Suppose that . Substitution of and into (96) and setting imply . Furthermore, substitution of , and into (87) immediately lead to (118), (119), and (120), respectively. The other case when lead to the same class of nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero, since substitution of by , maps the family of polynomials into itself. This completes the proof.

Coefficients and of nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero can be expressed in terms of parameters or by converting (118)–(120) into additive form (1). In what follows, by eliminating or , we provide relations between coefficients and .

Conversion of (118) into an additive form lead to and . First relation implies and therefore, for coefficients of waveforms (118), we obtain

Conversion of (119) into an additive form lead to and . Therefore, for coefficients of waveforms (119), the following relations hold:

Conversion of (120) into an additive form lead to and . First relation implies and . Substituting into provides in terms of . Consequently, for coefficients of waveforms (120), the following relations hold:

It is easy to see that expressions (121)–(123) can be obtained from (63), (64), (67), (68), by setting , and when . Therefore, every nonnegative cosine waveform with at least one zero has maximal absolute value of coefficient for prescribed coefficient .

Every cosine polynomial corresponds to a pair of real numbers and vice versa. In Figure 12, grey area consists of those pairs that correspond to nonnegative cosine polynomials. The boundary of this area corresponds to nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero, described by relations (121)–(123). A number of shapes of nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero, plotted on interval are also presented in Figure 12. Cosine polynomial that can be expressed in both forms (118) and (119) corresponds to the common point of line segments (121) and (122). This common point is the cusp in Figure 12, with coordinates and . Cosine polynomial that can be expressed in both forms (118) and (120) corresponds to the common point of line segments (121) and (123), whereas one that can be expressed in both forms (119) and (120) corresponds to the common point of segments (122) and (123). The last two points, represented with white circle dots in Figure 12, correspond to the so-called maximally flat waveforms with coefficients and (e.g., see [5]). White triangle dots refer to the cosine polynomials with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic.

Figure 12: Parameter space of cosine polynomials.

7. Three Case Studies of the Usage of Description of Nonnegative Waveforms in PA Efficiency Analysis

This section provides three case studies of the usage of descriptions of nonnegative waveforms introduced above, for the purpose of waveforms modelling in the PA efficiency analysis. First case study is devoted to the derivation of closed form expression for maximal efficiency of PA for current-voltage pair of nonnegative cosine waveforms up to second harmonic and prescribed second harmonic resistive termination (Section 7.1). Section 7.2 provides an algorithm for calculation of efficiency of PA, providing that current is nonnegative cosine waveform with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic and voltage is nonnegative waveform with at least one zero and . Closed form expression for maximal efficiency of PA for given second harmonic impedance, providing that voltage is nonnegative waveform up to second harmonic in general form and current is prescribed nonnegative cosine waveform, is presented in Section 7.3.

7.1. Current and Voltage Pair of Nonnegative Cosine Waveforms in PA Efficiency Analysis

In this subsection, we derive closed form expression for maximum efficiency of PA for given resistive second harmonic termination, providing that both current and voltage are nonnegative cosine waveforms. We also provide closed form expressions for coefficients of these waveforms.

Let us consider generic PA circuit diagram, as shown in Figure 13. In what follows, we assume that voltage and current waveforms at the transistor output are

where stands for . For convenience, we normalize the voltage and current waveforms such that supply voltage and dc current are and , respectively. Consequently, current and voltage waveforms at the load are

In terms of coefficients ,, , and , the load resistances at fundamental and second harmonic are and , respectively, and PA efficiency is .

Figure 13: Generic PA circuit diagram.

Since PA efficiency is positive, it follows that . Furthermore, the output network is passive and therefore the relations between coefficients and can be expressed as where , or where . Consequently, .

In what follows, we consider only the case and , since discussion related to the case and remain the same, after interchanging roles of current and voltage.

Let us now assume that . Then, according to (122)-(123), the following relation between and holds

Clearly, and

imply . Therefore, from and (121), it follows that and , which, together with (127), lead to

and . According to (128), increase of lead to decrease of , which further lead to decrease of efficiency. Therefore, in the quest for maximum efficiency, it is enough to consider . According to (126) and (128), efficiency of PA can be expressed as an explicit function of and ,

In order to find for which maximal efficiency is attained, first derivative of with respect to is set to zero. From , we obtain coefficient as an explicit function of only:

Notice that when and when . Insertion of (130) into (126)–(129) provides closed form expressions for maximal efficiency and corresponding coefficients of waveforms in terms of only.

Let us now assume that . Repeating all arguments of the previous consideration, the following series of interchanging , , and lead to analogous result.

Procedure for calculation of maximal efficiency of PA with cosine waveforms for given second harmonic resistive termination and coefficients of corresponding waveforms, taking into account that and , is provided in the following algorithm.

Algorithm 20. One has the following steps:

(i) choose ;

(ii) calculate from (130);

(iii) calculate , , and from (126), (127), and (128), respectively;

(iv) calculate efficiency .

The related graph of maximal efficiency and corresponding coefficients , , , and are shown in Figure 14.

Figure 14: Maximal efficiency of PA and coefficients of corresponding cosine waveforms as function of second harmonic resistance .

As an example, for prescribed , a pair of cosine waveforms (124) that provides maximum efficiency is shown in Figure 15. By applying step (ii) of Algorithm 20, we obtain and then, according to step (iii), we obtain , , and . Corresponding efficiency and load resistance at fundamental harmonic are and , respectively.

Figure 15: Pair of cosine waveforms (124) that provides maximum efficiency for .

The analytical results obtained in this subsection are in agreement with those obtained in [4] via numerical optimization process.

7.2. Nonnegative Waveforms with at Least One Zero and

Let us consider nonnegative waveforms of type (1) with and zero at instance . In this subsection, we provide closed form expressions for the coefficients and of these waveforms in terms of coefficient and instance .

The algorithm for calculation of efficiency of PA, providing that voltage is nonnegative waveform of type (1) with having at least one zero and current is nonnegative cosine waveform with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic, is presented.

As shown in Section 5.1, coefficients and of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero can be expressed as a function of , , and (see (112)-(113)). Assumption together with (113) lead to

Substitution of (131) into (112) yields

Furthermore, substitution of (131) into (102) and then insertion of resulting relations into lead to the following inequality:

Because of , this inequality is equivalent to

From (132) and (134), it is easy to see that

Notice that nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero can be obtained from (131), (132), and (134) by setting to zero. According to (131) and (134), implies that for and for , which, together with (132), lead to (121)–(123).

In what follows, we consider the efficiency of PA (see Figure 13), providing that current waveform is nonnegative cosine waveform with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic and voltage waveform is nonnegative waveform with at least one zero and :

Fundamental harmonic impedance is (purely real) and second harmonic impedance is , where and for current waveform (136). Since the load is passive, it follows that and which further imply and , respectively.

A procedure for calculation of coefficients of voltage waveforms (137) and corresponding efficiency for the voltage-current pair (137)-(136), taking into account that and , is presented in the following algorithm.

Algorithm 21. One has the following steps:

(i)choose ;(ii)choose from the range ;(iii)calculate and from (131) and (132), respectively;(iv)calculate efficiency .

Efficiency as a function of normalized second harmonic impedance is presented in Figure 16.

Figure 16: Efficiency contours of PA with waveform pair (136)-(137) as a function of normalized second harmonic impedance.

As an example, for prescribed coefficient of nonnegative voltage waveform of type (137), according to step (ii) of Algorithm 21, the range for is . Let us choose from this range. Then, according to steps (iii) and (iv), the remaining coefficients and efficiency are , , and . Fundamental harmonic impedance and second harmonic impedance are equal to and , respectively. The voltage waveform and the associated current waveform given by (136) are presented in Figure 17.

Figure 17: Current waveform (136) and voltage waveform (137) with and .

7.3. Maximal Efficiency of PA with Prescribed Cosine Current Waveform

Let us consider current-voltage pair, such that voltage is nonnegative waveform of type (1) and current waveform is prescribed nonnegative cosine waveform:

Load impedances at fundamental and second harmonic are and , respectively. Since the load is passive, it follows that and which further imply and . Efficiency of PA can be calculated as .

In this subsection, we consider the problem of finding maximal efficiency of PA with waveform pair (138)-(139) for given second harmonic impedance, providing that current waveform (139) is prescribed. It is easy to see that this problem can be reduced to the problem of finding voltage waveform with maximal coefficient , for prescribed coefficients of second harmonic, which is already solved in Section 4 (see Proposition 9 and Remark 11).

In what follows, we will present an algorithm for calculation of maximal efficiency presuming that and . For other possible choices of signs of coefficients and , only step (iii) of this algorithm should be modified in accordance to Remark 11.

Algorithm 22. One has the following steps:

(i) choose such that ;

(ii) calculate and ;

(iii) if , then calculate and ;

else, calculate and ;

(iv) calculate efficiency ;

(v) calculate and .

Notice that step (iii) in above algorithm lead to the closed form expression for maximal efficiency of PA for given second harmonic impedance ,

providing that current waveform is nonnegative cosine waveform with coefficients and and voltage waveform has the form (138).

For the waveform pair (136) and (138), where current waveform (136) is nonnegative cosine waveform of type (139) with maximal coefficient , maximal efficiency of PA as a function of normalized second harmonic impedance is presented in Figure 18.

Figure 18: Contours of maximal efficiency of PA with waveform pair (136) and (138) as a function of normalized second harmonic impedance .

Notice that Figures 18 and 16 show that the highest efficiency (about 0.7) is attained when second harmonic load is close to the purely reactive (see the edges of Smith charts presented in Figures 18 and 16). This efficiency of 0.7 is close to the theoretical upper bound for efficiency when both current and voltage are nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic [4].

Let us consider two examples with current waveform (136) and prescribed second harmonic impedance, one related to the case and the other covering the case (see step (iii) of the above algorithm). Thus, and current waveform (136) imply that . Then, according to the above algorithm, the coefficients of voltage waveform of type (138) which provide maximal efficiency are , , , and (see Figure 19). Corresponding efficiency and normalized second harmonic impedance are and . On the other hand, and current waveform (136) imply that . Then, according to the above algorithm, the coefficients of voltage waveform of type (138) which provide maximal efficiency are , , , and (see Figure 20). Efficiency and normalized second harmonic impedance are and .

Figure 19: Current waveform (136) and nonnegative voltage waveform of type (138) that in pair with (136) provides maximal efficiency for .

Figure 20: Current waveform (136) and nonnegative voltage waveform of type (138) that in pair with (136) provides maximal efficiency for .

8. Conclusion

In this paper, we provide general characterisation of nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic in terms of four independent parameters (Proposition 1). Four important subclasses of the class of nonnegative waveforms are also fully characterised: nonnegative waveforms with maximal amplitude of fundamental harmonic for prescribed amplitude of second harmonic (Proposition 4), nonnegative waveforms with maximal coefficient of cosine part of fundamental harmonic for prescribed coefficients of second harmonic (Proposition 9), nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero (Proposition 12), and nonnegative cosine waveforms with at least one zero (Proposition 18). An algorithm (Algorithm 17) to facilitate calculation of coefficients and of nonnegative waveforms with at least one zero for prescribed coefficients and is also provided. Three case studies related to the efficiency of PA with nonnegative waveforms up to second harmonic, along with associated algorithms (Algorithms 20–22), are considered in detail.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

Acknowledgment

This work is supported by Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technology Development as a part of the Project TP32016.

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