Today's market of Power Amplifiers (PAs) offers both PAs stand-alone and PA modules (PA plus PA Controller, PAC, integrated in the same module). PA modules do not require an on-chip PAC but simply an Automatic Power Control (APC) able to shape the transmission (TX) burst for the PAC within the PA module. In order to maximize the flexibility of the on-chip PA's control system, the design of prog...

Currently the multiple wireless data transmission technologies have been commercially implemented, such as long-term evolution (LTE), Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. There is a keen requirement to combine the power amplifiers for those technologies into a single one which can amplifies concurrent multi-band signals. On the physically layer, there are two popular architectures, namely parallel single-band...

The opening up of the mm-wave band has created opportunities for high-data-rate communication, radar and medical imaging. The cost and size advantages of CMOS have motivated research on 60GHz CMOS front-end design [1]. However, very few CMOS mmwave power amplifiers (PAs) have been reported so far. Furthermore, most of the mm-wave PAs reported use bulky transmission lines [2, 3], increasing sili...

This paper presents work towards heterogeneous integration of high-efficiency power amplifiers (PAs) with tuner and biasing circuits implemented with micro-electro-machined elements. The PAs operate in switched mode with over 70% efficiency at X-band. Many such switched-mode amplifiers are used as the active portion of spatial power combining antenna arrays, with 2.3kW ERP at 8.4GHz at 65% drai...

H igh efficiency linear amplification is of great interest in modern communication systems as it increases talk time, decreases power consumption , decreases heat dissipation, and improves reliability. The efficiency of linear power amplifiers (PAs) is highest at the peak output power (PEP) and decreases significantly for low amplitudes, as shown in Figure 1. Signals with time-varying amplitude...

The research of 60GHz CMOS transceivers has bloomed due to their capability of achieving low-cost multi-Gb/s short-range wireless communications [1]. Considering practical use of the 60GHz CMOS transceivers, longer operation lifetime with high output power is preferred to provide reliable products. Unfortunately, as indicated in [2], the output power capability of the transmitter will gradually...

In this work, dynamic load modulation of high power amplifiers using a varactor-based tunable matching network is presented. The feasibility of dynamic tuning and efficiency enhancement of this technique is demonstrated using a modular design approach for two existing high efficiency power amplifiers (PA), a 7-W class-E, and a 10-W class-J power amplifier PA at 1 GHz. For this purpose and for e...

This paper presents work towards heterogeneous integration of high-efficiency power amplifiers (PAs) and tuner and biasing circuits implemented with micro-electro-machined elements. The PAs operate in switched mode with over 70% efficiency at X-band. Many such switched-mode amplifiers are used as the active portion of spatial power combining antenna arrays, with 2.3kW ERP at 8.4GHz at 65% drain...

A novel low-complexity dual-band memory polynomial (2D-LCMP) model for linearization of dual-band power amplifiers (PAs) is proposed in this paper. The in-band intermodulation (IM) and cross-band modulation (CM) distortion terms in the prior two-dimensional models have different impacts on the model performance. Therefore, they are considered respectively in the proposed model. Some redundant d...

Radio Frequency (RF) power amplifiers (PAs) have large memory effects and high nonlinearity.It is very important to analyze the system level performance of PAsaccurately using a simple behavioral or mathematical model.This paper proposes a system-level behavioral model for RF PA that exhibit memory effects.This model gives quite accurate results in predicting the behavior of PAs with memory eff...