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Implementation of electrothermal system-level model for RF power amplifiers in Scilab/Scicos environment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 January 2010

Florent Besombes ,
Raphaël Sommet ,
Julie Mazeau ,
Edouard Ngoya  and
Jean-Paul Martinaud
Florent Besombes*
Affiliation:
THALES Airborne Systems, 2 avenue Gay Lussac, 78851 Elancourt, France. XLIM CNRS, 7 rue Jules Vallès, 19100 Brive La Gaillarde, France.
Raphaël Sommet
Affiliation:
XLIM CNRS, 7 rue Jules Vallès, 19100 Brive La Gaillarde, France.
Julie Mazeau
Affiliation:
THALES Airborne Systems, 2 avenue Gay Lussac, 78851 Elancourt, France.
Edouard Ngoya
Affiliation:
XLIM CNRS, 7 rue Jules Vallès, 19100 Brive La Gaillarde, France.
Jean-Paul Martinaud
Affiliation:
THALES Airborne Systems, 2 avenue Gay Lussac, 78851 Elancourt, France.
*
Corresponding author: F. Besombes Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

This paper presents a behavioral electrothermal model implementation for high RF power amplifiers dedicated to the simulation of radar application in the Scilab/Scicos environment. This model, based on the direct coupling between a behavioral electrical model and a physics-based reduced thermal model, allows to predict nonlinear effects, high-frequency memory effects, and thermal effects due to the amplifier self-heating. System model implementation in Scilab/Scicos platform allows fast time domain simulation with very good convergence properties.

Keywords

Behavioral electrothermal modelPower amplifierReduced thermal modelRitz vector approachSystem environmentScilab/Scicos simulation platform
Type
Original Article
Information
International Journal of Microwave and Wireless Technologies , Volume 1 , Special Issue 6: 2009 National Microwave Days in France , December 2009 , pp. 489 - 495
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press and the European Microwave Association 2010

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