Linear CMOS RF Power Amplifiers for Wireless Applications

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIV

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2. Introduction

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 1-4

3. Efficiency Enhancement

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 5-16

4. Design of the Dynamic Supply CMOS RF Power Amplifier

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 17-38

5. Measurement Results for the Dynamic Supply CMOS RF Power Amplifier

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 39-60

6. Frequency-Tunable Capability

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 61-75

7. Design of the Frequency-Tunable CMOS RF Power Amplifier

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 77-100

8. Measurement Results for the Frequency-Tunable CMOS RF Power Amplifier

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 101-121

9. Conclusion

   • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

   Pages 123-126

10. Appendix A: Measurement Setups and Additional Screenshots

    • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

    Pages 127-136

11. Appendix B: Procedure for Impedance Matching of Printed-Circuit RF Amplifiers

    • Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro, Maher Kayal

    Pages 137-156

12. Back Matter

    Pages 157-159

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Advances in electronics have pushed mankind to create devices, ranging from - credible gadgets to medical equipment to spacecraft instruments. More than that, modern society is getting used to—if not dependent on—the comfort, solutions, and astonishing amount of information brought by these devices. One ?eld that has continuously bene?tted from those advances is the radio frequency integrated c- cuit (RFIC) design, which in its turn has promoted countless bene?ts to the mankind as a payback. Wireless communications is one prominent example of what the - vances in electronics have enabled and their consequences to our daily life. How could anyone back in the eighties think of the possibilities opened by the wireless local area networks (WLANs) that can be found today in a host of places, such as public libraries, coffee shops, trains, to name just a few? How can a youngster, who lives this true WLAN experience nowadays, imagine a world without it? This book dealswith the design oflinearCMOS RF PowerAmpli?ers(PAs). The RF PA is a very important part of the RF transceiver, the device that enables wireless communications. Two important aspects that are key to keep the advances in RF PA design at an accelerate pace are treated: ef?ciency enhancement and frequen- tunable capability. For this purpose, the design of two different integrated circuits realizedina0. 11µmtechnologyispresented,eachoneaddressingadifferentaspect. With respect to ef?ciency enhancement, the design of a dynamic supply RF power ampli?er is treated, making up the material of Chaps. 2 to 4.

• Analog and RF Integrated Circuits
• CMOS
• CMOS Integrated Circuits
• Efficiency Enhancement
• RF Power Amplifiers
• Tunable Circuits
• Wireless Communications
• integrated circuit
• orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM)

• École polytech.féd.de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland

  Paulo Augusto Dal Fabbro

• de Lausanne (EPFL), École polytechnique fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland

  Maher Kayal

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