Advances in silicon processing technology have made CMOS power amplifiers a feasible option for wireless communication applications. Compared to the compoundsemiconductor counterparts, CMOS PAs become increasingly attractive due to their lower cost and higher level of integration. The continued scaling of CMOS technology further extends the cut-off frequency of CMOS devices up to several hundre...

A flexible and easily configurable software defined transmitter/receiver (TX/RX) architecture is described, which allows the determination of the distorted complex transfer characteristics of a 3 port nonlinear outphasing power amplifier (PA) for application in a WCDMA base station. The TX/RX architecture is capable of generating high precision single sideband signals (SSB) using a DSP algorith...