Energy Efficient Wireless Transmitters: Polar and Direct-Digital Modulation Architectures Jason Thaine Stauth Seth R. Sanders Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2009-22 http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-22.html February 4, 2009 Copyright 2009, by the author(s). All rights reserved. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission. Energy Efficient Wireless Transmitters: Polar and Direct-Digital Modulation Architectures by Jason Thaine Stauth B.A. (Colby College) 1999 B.E. (Dartmouth College) 2000 M.S. (University of California, Berkeley) 2006 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering – Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences in the GRADUATE DIVISION of the UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Committee in Charge Professor Seth R. Sanders, Chair Professor Ali M. Niknejad Professor Paul K. Wright Fall 2008 The dissertation of Jason Thaine Stauth is approved: Chair Date Date Date University of California, Berkeley Fall 2008 JV`$7``1H1VJ 1`VCV`:JI1 V`7QC:`:JR1`VH R1$1 :CQR%C: 1QJ `H.1 VH %`V Q]7`1$. 7 :QJ.:1JV :% . 1 G `:H JV`$7``1H1VJ 1`VCV`:JI1 V`7QC:`:JR 1`VH R 1$1 :C"QR%C: 1QJ #`H.1 VH %`V 7 :QJ.:1JV :% . 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