Publications

E. McCune, “Direct Digital Synthesis and the Number Controlled Modulated Oscillator”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Feb. 1987
E. McCune, “Number Controlled Modulated Oscillator Theory and Applications”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Nov. 1987
E. McCune, “Control of Spurious Signals In Direct Digital Synthesizers”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Feb. 1988
E. McCune, “Low Spurious Techniques and Measurements For DDS Systems”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, No. 1988
E. McCune, “Quantitative Prediction of DDS Spurs”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Feb. 1989
E. McCune, “Frequency Modulation Design for Direct Digital Synthesizers”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Oct. 1989
E. McCune, “Physical Mechanics and Synthesizer Switching Time”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Feb. 1991
E. McCune, “Field Strength Measurements for FCC Compliance”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Oct. 1992
E. McCune, “Ground Current Control in RF and High Speed Digital Circuits”, Proceedings of the RF Technology Expo, Mar. 1994
E. McCune, K. Feher, “CDMA and TDMA Standards Compatible Modem Developments Improve Power Efficiency and Performance of Wireless RFIC’s,” Proceedings of the Wireless Symposium, Feb. 1996
E. McCune, K. Feher, L Zuckerman, “An Impartial Comparison of DSSS and FHSS Under Narrowband Interference for ISM Band Operation,” Proceedings of the Wireless Symposium, Feb. 1997
E. McCune, “Synthesis of a Superposition Based FIR Digital Baseband Filter,” Proceedings of the IEEE Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems, Aug. 1997
E. McCune, “Closed Form Propagation Model Combining One or More Propagation Constant Segments,” Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 1997
E. McCune, K. Feher, “Near-Far Interference Experiments Using Minimum Cost Hardware,” Proceedings of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference, May 1997
E. McCune, “Understanding Error Sources of the Quadrature Modulator and Demodulator,” Proceedings of the Wireless Symposium, Feb. 1998
E. McCune, “Taming the Quadrature Modulator,” Proceedings of the Wireless Symposium, Feb. 2000
E. McCune, “High Speed Wireless Data Transmitters Without Heat Problems,” Proceedings of the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON), Aug. 2000 (invited)
E. McCune, ”Solving the Heat Problems in Wireless Data Terminals,” Proceedings of the IBC Power for Mobile Devices Conference, London, Dec. 2000
E. McCune, “Taming Quadrature Modulation,” Proceedings of the IEEE SSCTC Workshop on RF Circuit Design, Feb. 2001
E. McCune, “The Superposition Lowpass Filter,” Proceedings of the Wireless Symposium, Feb. 2001 E. McCune, “Heat Problems in Mobile Data Terminals,” Proceedings of the Communications Systems Design Conference, Oct. 2001
E. McCune, “Next Generation Silicon Design for Multimode RF Modems,” Proceedings of the UMTS Congress, Barcelona, Oct. 2001
E. McCune, “A Power Efficient Radio Platform for UMTS, GSM, EDGE, and TDMA,” Proceedings of the MobileSilicon Conference, Paris, Nov. 2001
E. McCune, “A Single, Multimode Common Radio Platform for WCDMA, CDMA, GSM, EDGE, and TDMA,” Proceedings of the Wireless Symposium, Feb. 2002
E. McCune, “Polar Modulation: An Alternative for Software Defined Radio,” Proceedings of the International Symposium for Advanced Radio Technology, Boulder CO, Mar. 2002 (invited)
E. McCune, “GSM/CDMA Multimode Terminals Using Polar Modulated Transmitters,” Proceedings of the MPRG Symposium, Virginia Tech, Jun. 2002
E. McCune, “SDR Radio Subsystems Using Polar Modulation,” Proceedings of the Software Defined Radio Conference, San Diego, Nov. 2002
E. McCune, “SDR Radio Subsystems Using Polar Modulation,” Proceedings of the Software Defined Radio Conference, San Diego, Nov. 2002
E. McCune, “Multi-mode and Multi-band Polar Transmitter for GSM, NADC, and EDGE,” Proceedings of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC), New Orleans, Mar. 2003
E. McCune, W. Sander, “EDGE Transmitter Alternative using Nonlinear Polar Modulation,” Proceedings of the IEEE Int’l Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Bangkok, May 2003 (invited)
E. McCune, “Advanced Architectures for High-Efficiency Multi-mode, Multi-band Terminal Power Amplifiers,” Proceedings of the IEEE Radio and Wireless Conference (RAWCON), Atlanta, Oct. 2004 (invited)
E. McCune, “Polar Modulation and Bipolar RF Power Devices,” Proceedings of the IEEE Bipolar Circuits and Technology Meeting (BCTM), Santa Barbara, Oct. 2005 (invited)
E. McCune, “Power Amplifiers and Multimode Requirements,” IEEE Topical Symposium on Power Amplifiers and Wireless Communications, Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), Jan. 2007 (invited)
E. McCune, “Transmit Architectures and PA Requirements,” Proceedings of the IEEE GIRAFE Forum on Power Amplifiers and Transmitter Architectures, San Francisco, Feb. 2007 (invited)
E. McCune, “Process- and technology-independent power switching transistor figures of merit,” Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS), Jan. 2008, pp. 195-8
Osman, S., Lee, W., McCune, E., Hirano, S., Maeda, M., Ishida, K., “An RFIC within a direct open-loop polar multimode transmitter for UMTS/EDGE/GSM,” Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2008. RFIC 2008. IEEE, Jun. 2008, pp: 577-580
E. McCune, “Multimode Transmitters: Easier With Strong Nonlinearity,” 18th Advanced Analog Circuit Design Conference (AACD), 30 Mar. – 1 Apr., 2009, Lund, Sweden (invited)
E. McCune, “Polar Modulation and Power Amplifiers,” Workshop WSC at the 2009 International Microwave Symposium, Boston, Jun. 7-11, 2009 (invited)
E. McCune, “Direct Digital Frequency Synthesizer with Designable Stepsize,” Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, New Orleans, Jan. 10-15, 2010
E. McCune, “Time-Filtered Squarewave Output from Direct Digital Synthesis,” Proceedings of the 2010 International Microwave Symposium, Anaheim, May 23-28, 2010
E. McCune, “Modern Cellular Wireless Signals,” Proceedings of the 75th Automatic RF Techniques Group (ARFTG) Microwave Measurement Conference, Anaheim, May 28, 2010 (invited)
E. McCune, “Spurious Mechanisms and Debugging in Direct Digital Synthesis,” Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, Phoenix, Jan. 16-19, 2011
E. McCune, “Begin at the Beginning for Transmitter Design,” Forum F1 at the 2011 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2011), San Francisco, Feb. 20-23, 2011
E. McCune, “Digital Signals: How We Got Here, And Where We Could Get To,” Proceedings of the 12th annual Wireless and Microwave Conference (WAMICON), Clearwater Beach, Florida, April 18-19, 2011, (invited)
E. McCune, “Physical Relationships along the Power Amplifier Continuum,” Workshop WSD at the 2011 International Microwave Symposium, Baltimore, MD, June 5-10, 2011
E. McCune, “Digital Signals: Shannon, Ohm, and PA Costs,” IEEE Topical Symposium on Power Amplifiers, Tempe, AZ, Nov. 29, 2011 (invited)
E. McCune, “Digital Wireless Communications Signals,” Advanced Short Course on RF Power Amplifier Systems Concepts, 78th ARFTG Microwave Measurements Conference, Tempe, AZ, Nov. 30, 2011 (invited)
E. McCune, “Embrace Circuit Nonlinearity to get Transmitter ‘Linearity’ and Energy Efficiency”, Workshop WSD at the 2012 International Microwave Symposium, Montreal, June 16-21 2012 (invited)
E. McCune, “Envelope Tracking and Polar Modulation: Similar Schematics with Extremely Different Operation”, Workshop WFD at the 2012 International Microwave Symposium, Montreal, June 16-21 2012 (invited)
E. McCune, “Wireless Figures of Merit and Wireless Standards,” Short Course presentation for the 80th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Symposium, San Diego, November 27, 2012 (invited)
E. McCune, “Gain: Changed Meanings for Compressed Amplifiers,” Proceedings of the 2013 Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems (MWSCAS), Columbus OH, August 2013
E. McCune, “pPSK for Bandwidth and Energy Efficiency,” Proceedings of the 43rd European Microwave Conference (EuMC), Nuremberg, October 2013 E. McCune, “Operating Modes of Dynamic-Power-Supply Transmitter Amplifiers,” Proceedings of the 2014 Integrated Nonlinear Microwave and Millimetre-wave Circuits Workshop (INMMIC), April 2014 (invited)
E. McCune, “Concurrent Polar and Quadrature Modulator,” Proceedings of the 2014 Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON), Tampa FL, June 2014
E. McCune, “Operating Modes of Dynamic-Power-Supply Transmitter Amplifiers,” IEEE Trans. on Microwave Theory and Techniques, Nov. 2014
E. McCune, “A Technical Foundation for RF CMOS Power Amplifiers,” Forum E at the 2015 International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2015), San Francisco, February 23-26, 2015 (invited)
E. McCune, “Operating Modes of Dynamic-Power-Supply Transmitter Amplifiers,” Workshop WSB at the 2015 International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Phoenix, May 17-22, 2015
E. McCune, “Dynamic Power Supply Transmitter Design,” Short Course SSA at the 2015 International Microwave Symposium (IMS), Phoenix, May 17, 2015 E. McCune, “Foundations of Green Communications,” Proceedings of the IEEE International Communications Conference (ICC), London, UK, 7-12 June 2015
E. McCune, D. Babić, R. Booth; D. Kirkpatrick, “Decade Bandwidth Agile GaN Power Amplifier Exceeding 50% Efficiency,” Proc. of MILCOM 2015, Tampa FL, October 2015, pp. 541-546
E. McCune, “Fundamentals of Switching RF Power Amplifiers,” IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, vol. 25, no. 12, Dec. 2015, pp.838-840
W. Godycki; Q. Diduck; E. McCune; D. Babić, “Class-D GaN 15MHz-bandwidth amplitude modulator with a direct CMOS interface,” Proc. 17th Annual IEEE Wireless and Microwave Technology Conference (WAMICON 2016), Florida, April 2016, pp.1-4
D. Babić; E. McCune; W. Godycki; Q. Diduck; D. Kirkpatrick, “Importance and measurement of phase-stiffness in RF switching amplifiers,” Proc. 87th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference (ARFTG), San Francisco, May 2016, pp. 1-4
E. McCune, R. Booth, D. Kirkpatrick, “Maximizing Wireless Communications Energy Efficiency,” Proc. of EDI-CON USA 2016, Boston, Sept. 19-23, 2016
E. McCune, “Applying Bipolar Transistors in Dynamic Power Supply Transmitters,” Proc. Of the 2016 Bipolar Circuits and Technologies Meeting (BCTM 2016), New Brunswick, New Jersey, Sept. 25-28 2016 (invited)
E. McCune, “Power Proportional Computing for “Green” Servers,” The International Workshop on Green ICT and Smart Networking (GISN 2016), Nov. 4, 2016 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada (invited)
E. McCune, “Signal Design and Figure of Merit for Green Communication Links,” Proc. of the 2017 Radio and Wireless Symposium (RWS2017), Jan 15-17 2017, Phoenix
E. McCune, “Fundamentals for Energy-Efficient Massive MIMO,” Proc. of the 2017 Wireless Communications and Networking Conf. (WCNC 2017), San Francisco
E. McCune, “Energy Efficiency Maxima for Wireless Communications: 5G, IoT, and Massive MIMO,” Proc. of the 2017 Custom Integrated Circuits Conf. (CICC 2017), May 1-3, 2017, Austin TX, (invited)
E. McCune, “Polar Modulation Based Reduction of Communications Energy Consumption,” Proc. of the 2017 International Conference on Communications (ICC2017), Paris, France, May 2017
E. McCune, “A Fully Polar Transmitter for Efficient Software-Defined Radios,” Proc. of the 2017 Intl. Microwave Symposium (IMS 2017), Honolulu, June 2017