[...]...x RF CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS:THEORY,DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 Waveforms of a switching-mode power amplifier with hard switching (a) Typical schematic of a class E power amplifier, (b) Its voltage and current waveforms showing the soft switching characteristics Single-ended class E resonant power amplifier. .. variation of output power and efficiency within the band of interest 32 33 34 35 37 38 38 39 40 40 41 42 47 48 48 49 49 50 50 51 RF CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS: Theory,Design and Implementation MONA MOSTAFA HELLA RF MICRO DEVICES Boston, MA MOHAMMED ISMAIL Analog VLSI Laboratory The Ohio-State University KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS NEW YORK, BOSTON, DORDRECHT, LONDON, MOSCOW xii RF CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS:THEORY,... the core of the class AB power amplifier Power amplifier test setup The variation of output power, and PAE as a function of the input signal frequency The variation of output power, and PAE, and power gain versus input power The input and output matching Variation of output power and efficiency versus the cascode bias voltage Stability of the power amplifier and 1) The layout of CMOS PA for class 1 Bluetooth... 1.3 1.4 4.1 4.2 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Performance summary of CMOS RF transceivers Example of some digital wireless standards Short-Range wireless standards Example of reported CMOS power amplifiers Power classes for Bluetooth Performance comparison of CMOS PAs DC operating conditions Input signal parameters Harmonic-Balance and process corner simulations Small signal S-parameter variation with process corner... leads to a significant reduction in power amplifier cost The is the first monograph addressing RF CMOS power amplifier design for emerging wireless standards.The focus will be on power amplifiers for short distance wireless personal and local area networks (PAN and LAN), however the design techniques are also applicable to emerging wide area networks xvi RF CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS:THEORY,DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION... The book discusses CMOS power amplifier theory and design principles, describes the architectures and tradeoffs in designing linear and nonlinear power amplifiers It then details design examples of RF CMOS power amplifiers for short distance wireless applications (e.g,Bluetooth, WLAN) including designs for multi-standard platforms Design aspects of RF circuits in deep submicron CMOS are also discussed... two of the reported CMOS wireless transceivers [4], [15] 8 RF CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS:THEORY,DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION The first reported CMOS power amplifier targeted the 900MHz ISM band [16] delivering output power from to 20 mW using a 3V supply, and was implemented in technology In an effort to provide higher integration level by having the de-feed inductors in the output stage on-chip, an extra fabrication... of the RF output power and the RF input power to the dc consumed power The PAE is a more practical measure as it accounts for the power gain of the amplifier As the power gain decreases, more stages will be required Since each stage will consume a certain amount of power, the overall power consumption will increase, thus decreasing the overall efficiency While power efficiency is a performance issue,... presents the main concepts and challenges of RF power amplifiers The difference between the matching of the power amplifier and any other front-end device is illustrated in the next section through the introduction of power match The effect of the transistor knee (pinch-off) voltage especially for low-voltage operation is given An overview of different power amplifier classes of operation, together with... micro-graph of the class E PA (output pads with ESD protection) Bonded chip micro-graph Implementation of inductances using board traces The measured output power, power added efficiency of the power amplifier at 900MHz, indicating relatively high ground inductance values that is affecting the operation of the amplifier as a class E stage The measured output power and efficiency of the power amplifier . Titles: POWER TRADE-OFFS AND LOW POWER IN ANALOG CMOS ICS M. Sanduleanu, van Tuijl ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 64 3-9 RF CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS: THEORY, DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION M.Hella, M.Ismail ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 62 8-5 WIRELESS. NETWORKS A.Ince ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 54 7-5 MULT-FRAME MOTION-COMPENSATED PREDICTION FOR VIDEO TRANSMISSION T. Wiegand, B. Girod ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 49 7- 5 SUPER - RESOLUTION IMAGING S. Chaudhuri ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 47 1-1 AUTOMATIC. Sutherland ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 56 8-8 IMAGE COMPRESSION FUNDAMENTALS, STANDARDS AND PRACTICE D. Taubman, M. Marcellin ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 519-X ERROR CODING FOR ENGINEERS A.Houghton ISBN: 0-7 92 3-7 522-X MODELING