GaAs based HBT large signal modeling using VBIC for linear power amplifier applications

The relevant performance parameters that a large signal device model must predict for linear power amplifier design have been identified. The VBIC model (McAndrew et al., IEEE JSSC vol. 31, no. 10, pp. 1476-83, 1996) was applied to gallium arsenide based heterojunction bipolar transistors and shown to accurately predict all of these performance parameters.