Green communications: Digital predistortion for wideband RF power amplifiers

L Guan, A Zhu - IEEE Microwave Magazine, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The RF PA, as one of the most essential components in any wireless system, suffers from
inherent nonlinearities. The output of a PA must comply with the linearity requirement …

A switched-capacitor RF power amplifier

SM Yoo, JS Walling, EC Woo, B Jann… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2011 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A fully integrated switched-capacitor power amplifier (SCPA) utilizes switched-capacitor
techniques in an EER/Polar architecture. It operates on the envelope of a nonconstant …

Fractional- Phase-Locked-Loop-Based Frequency Synthesis: A Tutorial

PE Su, S Pamarti - IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The fundamentals and state of the art in fractional-N phase-locked-loop (PLL)-based
frequency synthesis are reviewed. Particular emphasis is placed on delta-sigma fractional-N …

A class-G voltage-mode Doherty power amplifier

V Vorapipat, CS Levy… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents the combination of two back-off efficiency enhancement techniques, the
voltage-mode Doherty and the class-G switched-capacitor power amplifier (PA), to achieve …

A class-G switched-capacitor RF power amplifier

SM Yoo, JS Walling, O Degani, B Jann… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A switched-capacitor power amplifier (SCPA) that realizes an envelope elimination and
restoration/polar class-G topology is introduced. A novel voltage-tolerant switch enables the …

A multiband RF antenna duplexer on CMOS: Design and performance

M Mikhemar, H Darabi, AA Abidi - IEEE Journal of Solid-State …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An RF duplexer has been fabricated on a CMOS IC for use in 3G/4G cellular transceivers.
The passive circuit sustains large voltage swings in the transmit path, and isolates the …

Design of a transformer-based reconfigurable digital polar Doherty power amplifier fully integrated in bulk CMOS

S Hu, S Kousai, JS Park, OL Chlieh… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a digital polar Doherty power amplifier (PA) fully integrated in a 65 nm
bulk CMOS process. It achieves+ 27.3 dBm peak output power and 32.5% peak PA drain …

A broadband mixed-signal CMOS power amplifier with a hybrid class-G Doherty efficiency enhancement technique

S Hu, S Kousai, H Wang - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a broadband mixed-signal CMOS power amplifier (PA) with a hybrid
Class-G Doherty architecture for PA efficiency enhancement up to the deep power back-off …

A quadrature switched capacitor power amplifier

W Yuan, V Aparin, J Dunworth… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an all-digital class-G quadrature switched-capacitor power amplifier (Q-
SCPA) implemented in 65 nm CMOS. It combines in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) signals on …

A broadband switched-transformer digital power amplifier for deep back-off efficiency enhancement

Y Yin, T Li, L **ong, Y Li, H Min… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a switched-transformer-based polar Doherty digital power amplifier
(DPA) for deep back-off efficiency enhancement. A single-transformer-footprint parallel …