Shared-current
electronic systems (10, 20, 26, 30, 38, 48, 66, 70, 82, 90, 96, 100, 104, 108, 118, and 122) include two or more
solid-state electronic devices, such as a
solid-state amplifying device Q1, a
baseband processor 110, and a multiplier / upconverter 112, that are connected in dc series or dc series-parallel, and that either fixedly or variably share percentages of a dc supply
voltage. Various embodiments produce separate rf outputs, variably shift the phase of a single rf output, variably shift rf power between / among rf outputs, or produce a frequency-compressed modulation. RF decoupling of the dc series-connected electronic devices comprises making an effective series resistance (ESR) of an rf decoupling
capacitance lower than the ESR of a porcelain
capacitor that resonates at the
operating frequency of the electronic device that is being decoupled.