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Traditionally, multimode transmitters are approached from a linear circuit approach, and then significant work follows to improve their abysmal initial energy efficiency. Here we consider the reverse procedure, where the starting point is the circuit with greatest energy efficiency – a switch – surrounded by system architectures which result in exactly the same output signals. This latter approach necessarily leads to polar signal processing and polar modulation techniques.
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McCune, E. (2010). Multimode Transmitters: Easier with Strong Nonlinearity. In: Roermund, A., Casier, H., Steyaert, M. (eds) Analog Circuit Design. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3083-2_13
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