PhD, Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff
at Maxim Labs, Maxim Integrated Products, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA, USA
John Wood received B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and
Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds, UK, in 1976
and 1980, respectively.
He is currently Senior Principal Member of Technical Staff in
Maxim Labs at Maxim Integrated Products, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA, where
he is working on Envelope Tracking and Digital Pre-Distortion
systems for wireless communications applications. He was
formerly a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff responsible
for RF System & Device Modeling in the RF Division of Freescale
Semiconductor, Inc, Tempe, AZ, USA.
His areas of expertise include the development of compact device
models and behavioural models for RF power transistors and ICs, and
linearization and pre-distortion of high-power amplifiers. To
enable and support these modeling requirements, he has been
involved in the specification of high power pulsed I-V-RF test
systems, for connectorized and on-wafer applications, and in the
development of large-signal network analyzer (LSNA), loadpull, and
envelope measurement techniques. From 1997-2005 he worked in
the Microwave Technology Center of Agilent Technologies(then
Hewlett Packard) in Santa Rosa, CA, USA, where his research work
has included the investigation, characterization, and development
of large-signal and bias-dependent linear FET models for
millimetre-wave applications, and nonlinear behavioural modeling
using LSNA measurements and nonlinear system identification
techniques.
He has organized, co-organized, and presented at many workshops
at IMS and RWS in recent years; he was on the Steering Committee
for IMS 2006, and has been a member of the IMS Technical Program
Committee for the past four years, currently Chair of SC-20
'High-Power Amplifiers'. He has been a member of the ARFTG
Executive Committee from 2007-10, was the Technical Program Chair
for the 70th & 75th ARFTG Conferences
(2007, 2010), and the General Chair for the 78th ARFTG
Conference in Fall 2011. He was Technical Program Chair for
the IEEE Power Amplifier Symposium 2008, 2010, and was General
Chair in 2009 and 2011. He is a regular reviewer for IEEE
Transactions on Microwave Theory & Techniques, on Electron
Devices, and on Circuits & Systems. He is author or co-author
of over 120 papers and articles in the fields of microwave device
and system modeling and characterization, and microwave device
technology. He is the co-author of Modeling and
Characterization of RF and Microwave Power FETs (Cambridge,
2007), and co-editor of Fundamentals of Nonlinear
Behavioral Modeling for RF and Microwave Design (Artech House,
2005). He is Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Microwave
magazine for 2012-14: this is the magazine of the IEEE Microwave
Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S); he is also an MTT-S
Distinguished Microwave Lecturer for 2012-14.
He received the ARFTG Technology Award in 2007. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE.
Course #06
Linearisation and Modelling Techniques for RF Power Amplifier
in Modern Communications Systems