RF Power Amplifier Design MasterClass Webinar Series

The Keysight EDA Power Amplifier (PA) Masterclass Webinar series brings the latest RF-MW-mmWave PA design methodologies from the industry into practical deployment within EDA workflows that you can implement. They are presented by a team of expert PA designers who are passionate about sharing their EDA application knowledge to design PAs that simultaneously meet multi-objective PA specs such as Power, Gain, Efficiency, Linearity, Stability, and EVM performance.


See practical state-of-the-art PA design methodologies you won’t find in theoretical textbooks or technical papers.

Learn:

• How to design RF-MW-mmW Power Amplifiers (PAs) for multi-spec performance - power, efficiency, linearity, gain, stability, and EVM

• How to simulate power devices thoroughly with load pull, for designing a PA with them to meet multi-spec requirements

• How to optimize a PA for multi-spec performance and tolerance against PA device process corners

This PA webinar series is ideal for current and future RF-MW-mmW power amplifier circuit designers across wireless applications, including radars, 5G/6G, and directed energy systems.

Webinar 1: Why to Use the Power Wave Load Pull Technique for PA Design


Load-pull PA design techniques determine the optimal impedance to match a power device and simultaneously satisfy multiple performance PA specs, such as Power, Gain, Efficiency, Stability, Linearity, and modulated signal EVM.


Unlike traditional simulated load pull techniques using current and voltage probes with complex post-processing equations, power wave (or a-b wave) load pull provides an accurate digital twin of the actual Load pull VNA measurement setup. This eliminates simulation setup uncertainties when troubleshooting inevitable discrepancies between measurements vs. simulations during pre-production prototyping.


Load pull digital twins provide consistent datasets for training AI ANN models to accurately represent the Power device, enabling fast tuning and multi-performance optimization in the final stages of hardware implementation, including harmonic matching networks and packaging.


Watch On Demand.


Webinar 2: Why Use Intrinsic Techniques for High-Efficiency PA Design


Intrinsic techniques enable high-efficiency PA design by shaping the voltage and current waveforms to minimize overlap (hence, minimum power dissipation) at the intrinsic nodes of the power device.

This webinar not only explains the principles but also demonstrates how you can use RF simulation tools to implement this powerful intrinsic PA design methodology for optimal efficiency. Intrinsic techniques complement the extrinsic load pull techniques from the previous webinar to equip you with practical PA design knowledge refined from decades of experience by the presenters.

Understanding intrinsic PA design methodology is the foundation for waveform engineering to achieve optimal efficiency. This will be presented in the next PA masterclass webinar, to illustrate how this clever and elegant concept can be implemented as a systematic workflow in your EDA simulation tool, from device evaluation, harmonic impedance targeting, voltage-current waveform verification, and practical extrinsic harmonic impedance matching.

If you design PAs for wireless infrastructure, radars, satellites or any high-powered RF systems, this webinar provides knowledge you won’t want to miss because it is rarely found elsewhere.


Kindly select the session that best suits your time zone from the options below.

  • Matthew Ozalas
    Engineer, Scientist at Keysight Technologies.
    With an experience of more than 15 years, Matthew brings out a plethora of knowledge in complex RF designs using CAD tools.   Matthew has also authored several application notes on RF and Microwave design and development using Keysight ADS with his recent ones based on “Artificial neural network simulation models for RF power amplifiers” and has produced several tutorials on youtube regarding complex RF designs.


    Matt received his BSEE from Penn State University in 2001 and his MSEE and MBA from Arizona State University in 2010. From 2001 to 2005, he worked at the MITRE Corporation in Bedford, MA, as an Integrated Electronics Engineer, designing RFICs and discrete RF and Microwave circuits.  From 2005 to 2013, he worked at Skyworks Solutions in Santa Rosa, CA, designing, developing, and testing high-volume multiband power amplifiers and front-end modules for wireless handsets. He joined Keysight in 2013.
  • Joe Schultz
    RF Solution Engineer at Keysight Technologies
    Joe Schultz is a Radio Frequency Engineer with Keysight Technologies, supporting Microwave EDA Simulation Applications in Aerospace and Defense. Joe received his BSEE from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, in 1987 and started his Motorola/Freescale/NXP career. As a design engineer at Motorola/Freescale, he obtained his MSEE and MECE degrees from Illinois Institute of Technology in 1993 and 2016, respectively. Joe is a Senior Member of IEEE.

    Joe has over 38 years of design experience in radio power amplifiers, PAICs, and transmitter circuits. He has designed handset and base-station PAs from 3V to 50V, 100mW to 3kW, across 68MHz to 5GHz. During his career, he has accumulated over 25 patents and advanced Base and Handset radio power amplifier design. He has seen and lived through the evolution of PA design from ‘black magic’ tuning to the present-day high-level FEM, electro-thermal, and non-linear simulation designs.
  • Dr. Nabil Khalid
    Dr. Nabil Khalid obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Alberta, Canada, in 2023, with a focus on designing battery less RFID-based wireless sensors. His majors are in telecommunications, RF/microwave, and RADARs.

    He specializes in designing industrial-grade power amplifiers and developing the physical layer of THz band wireless communications at multiple international locations: RWR Pvt. Ltd., Islamabad; Next-generation and Wireless Communications Laboratory (NWCL), Istanbul, Turkey; Intelligent Wireless Technology Laboratory (IWT), University of Alberta; Ericsson AB, Ottawa, ON, Canada and Keysight Technologies, Santa Clara, CA, USA.

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RF Power Amplifier Design MasterClass Webinar Series