A highly linear and efficient differential CMOS power amplifier with harmonic control
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- Title
- A highly linear and efficient differential CMOS power amplifier with harmonic control
- Authors
- Kang, JC; Yoon, J; Min, K; Yu, D; Nam, J; Yang, Y; Kim, B
- Date Issued
- 2006-06
- Publisher
- IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGI
- Abstract
- A 2.45 GHz fully differential CMOS power amplifier (PA) with high efficiency and linearity is presented. For this work, a 0.18-mu m standard CMOS process with Cu-metal is employed and all components of the two-stage circuit except an output transformer and a few bond wires are integrated into one chip. To improve the linearity, an optimum gate bias is applied for the cancellation of the nonlinear harmonic generated by g(m3) and a new harmonic termination technique at the common source node is adopted along with normal harmonic termination at the drain. The harmonic termination at the source effectively suppresses the second harmonic generated from the input and output. The amplifier delivers a 20.5 dBm Of P-1dB with 17.5 dB of power gain and 37% of power-added efficiency (PAE). Linearity measurements from a two-tone test show that the power amplifier with the second harmonic termination improves the IMD3 and IMD5 over the amplifier without the harmonic termination by maximally 6 dB and 7 dB, respectively. Furthermore, the linearity improvements appear over a wide range of the power levels and the linearity is maintained under -45 dBc of IMD3 and -57 dBc of IMD5 when the output power is backed off by more than 5 dB from PLdB. From the OFDM signal test, the second harmonic termination improves the error vector magnitude (EVM) by over 40% for an output power level satisfying the 4.6% EVM specification.
- Keywords
- differential power amplifier; error vector magnitude (EVM); even in-phase harmonics; harmonic termination; odd anti-phase harmonics; Volterra series; DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE-TRANSFORMER; DESIGN; TRANSCEIVER
- URI
- https://oasis.postech.ac.kr/handle/2014.oak/23990
- DOI
- 10.1109/JSSC.2006.874276
- ISSN
- 0018-9200
- Article Type
- Article
- Citation
- IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS, vol. 41, no. 6, page. 1314 - 1322, 2006-06
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