TY - GEN
T1 - RF IC design of highly-efficient broadband polar transmitters for WiMAX and 3GPP LTE applications
AU - Lie, D. Y.C.
AU - Li, Y.
AU - Lopez, J.
AU - Chen, K.
AU - Wu, S.
AU - Yang, T. Y.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - This paper presents highly-efficient RF polar transmitter (TX) systems that utilize the envelope-tacking (ET) technique with monolithic SiGe power amplifiers (PAs) for mobile WiMAX and 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) applications. Monolithic single-ended cascode SiGe PA design capable of enhancing its power-added efficiency (PAE) is demonstrated. Four RF switches are adopted at the bases of the common-emitter transistors, which can be turned on/off in response to the desired output power. We found that self-biasing of the common-base device with ET can improve the output distortion of the cascode PA to output 18dBm and passing the stringent mobile WiMAX linearity specs with 30% PAE at 2.3GHz without predistortion. Furthermore, a differential cascode SiGe PA using the proposed ET-based polar TX system can improve the average output power to 21dBm with 33.6% PAE at 1.42 GHz, and it also passes the stringent LTE 16QAM linearity specs without needing predistortion.
AB - This paper presents highly-efficient RF polar transmitter (TX) systems that utilize the envelope-tacking (ET) technique with monolithic SiGe power amplifiers (PAs) for mobile WiMAX and 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) applications. Monolithic single-ended cascode SiGe PA design capable of enhancing its power-added efficiency (PAE) is demonstrated. Four RF switches are adopted at the bases of the common-emitter transistors, which can be turned on/off in response to the desired output power. We found that self-biasing of the common-base device with ET can improve the output distortion of the cascode PA to output 18dBm and passing the stringent mobile WiMAX linearity specs with 30% PAE at 2.3GHz without predistortion. Furthermore, a differential cascode SiGe PA using the proposed ET-based polar TX system can improve the average output power to 21dBm with 33.6% PAE at 1.42 GHz, and it also passes the stringent LTE 16QAM linearity specs without needing predistortion.
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U2 - 10.1109/ICSICT.2010.5667818
DO - 10.1109/ICSICT.2010.5667818
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:78751520527
SN - 9781424457984
T3 - ICSICT-2010 - 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, Proceedings
SP - 150
EP - 153
BT - ICSICT-2010 - 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, Proceedings
T2 - 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology
Y2 - 1 November 2010 through 4 November 2010
ER -