NDLI: A switched-capacitor power amplifier for EER/polar transmitters

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Sang-Min Yoo Walling, J.S. Eum Chan Woo Allstot, D.J.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: University of Washington, Seattle, WA (Sang-Min Yoo; Walling, J.S.; Eum Chan Woo; Allstot, D.J.)
Abstract	Wireless high-speed communication standards such as WiFi, WiMax and LTE use spectrally-efficient OFDM modulation that encodes signal information in both amplitude and phase. Use of this non-constant envelope modulation requires a linear PA, operating at a less-than-peak signal level to realize higher linearity and inherently reduced efficiency. Because the PA is the dominant power consumer in most RF transceivers, operation with reduced efficiency leads to short battery lifetime and reduced mobility. Consequently, many efforts to utilize more efficient switching amplifiers with linearization circuitry have been made, notably through pulse-width modulation [1], outphasing [2] and envelope elimination and restoration (EER) [3,4]. Of the three, EER offers the best performance tradeoff between linearity, output power and efficiency; however, most previous implementations have come at the cost of large, power-hungry analog supply modulators. Additionally, conventional EER techniques are subject to nonlinearity induced by delay mismatch between the amplitude- and phase-modulated signal components. An alternative solution modulated the output power by selecting multiple PA unit cells [5], but this exhibits low efficiency at low output power levels because the power control is achieved by changing the total PA transconductance through switching of inefficient cells.
Starting Page	428
Ending Page	430
File Size	1247652
Page Count	3
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781612843032
ISSN	01936530
e-ISBN	9781612843025
DOI	10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746382
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-02-20
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Capacitors Switches Power generation Power amplifiers CMOS integrated circuits Modulation Linearity
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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