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HMC8205BF10 Temperature Compensation.

Category: Hardware
Product Number: HMC8205BF10

Hello Everyone. 

HMC8205BF10 Gan amplifier requires a gate bias voltage with a voltage value that translates the drain current consumption to 1.4A. 
Obviously this will not stay stable at higher temperatures, so now that I am designing the bias controller circuit and i would like to add a temperature compensation sub-circuit. 

The problem is that cant find on the datasheet any reference or chart that indicates how many mV per degree celcius are needed to maintain a constant drain current. 
I found from other amplifiers that this is usually 0.4mV per degree celcius. 

Does that value applies to this particular amplifier? is there any internal note about that parameter?

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  • Hi GeorgeMichael,

                                   We have not measured drift.  During characterization we determine the necessary gate voltage to set  IDQ at 25C. When we characterize the amplifier over temperature we set the same gate voltage used at 25C and let IDQ drift.

    Regards,

    Jim B

  • Thank you. Well i added support for 0.5mV/°C which can be removed with jumper and we will run some tests. 

    One last thing

    I know that GaN gate terminal is basically a Schottky diode, and has higher leakage current than other types of amplifiers. 

    My question is if the gate current is known. (since its not on the datasheet). I saw on 100W amplifiers values from 5mA to 20mA

    For this one which is 35W, we have used a charge pump that can output 15mA (LTC1261 Adj -8V) but i am a little nervous about it.

    Should we change the design and use an Negative LDO instead (Like LT3093 which can provide 100mA)

    Kind regards. 

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  • Thank you. Well i added support for 0.5mV/°C which can be removed with jumper and we will run some tests. 

    One last thing

    I know that GaN gate terminal is basically a Schottky diode, and has higher leakage current than other types of amplifiers. 

    My question is if the gate current is known. (since its not on the datasheet). I saw on 100W amplifiers values from 5mA to 20mA

    For this one which is 35W, we have used a charge pump that can output 15mA (LTC1261 Adj -8V) but i am a little nervous about it.

    Should we change the design and use an Negative LDO instead (Like LT3093 which can provide 100mA)

    Kind regards. 

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