In mobile handsets power amplifiers are the major power consumer. The growing trend to incorporate multiple communication standards into a single handset entails the use of several power amplifiers in a design. The increase in efficiency is a key factor in ensuring practical battery lifetimes in modern handsets. The Mesuro system provides the complete information to reach efficiencies close to theoretically maximum values with demonstrated examples reaching above 80% to maximise the battery lifetime. The additional information also enables customers to:

• Maintain the high efficiencies over sufficient frequency bandwidths to cover multiple communication standards
• Improve device efficiency, leading to improved battery life and user experience
• Reduce power consumption and component count
• Get designs right first time reducing time to market