A Holistic Approach to Addressing the Unrelenting Efficiency and Linearity Challenges of 5G Transmitters

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Wireless connectivity has advanced at a frenetic rate, building from station-to-station communication (thousands of connections), through station-to-people modalities (millions of connections), to the current people-to-people connectivity (billions of connections). Incredibly, the rise in connectivity needs has been met with relatively incremental advances in wireless communication, culminating in our current fourth generation (4G) technology. However, this technology will no longer suffice to meet increasing connectivity demands. In the next decade, trillions of devices will connect people-to-people, people-to-things and things-to-things – turning familiar items into so-called smart objects with built-in sensing and networking capabilities, and propelling wireless connectivity to the tera-scale. Fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies will require completely new wireless devices, communication infrastructure and networks to meet the unprecedented challenges, which include 100-1000 times higher system capacity, data throughput of up to gigabytes per second everywhere, latency down to 1 millisecond, and 10 times longer device battery life, while lowering cost and power consumption.