DocumentCode :
1337436
Title :
A 
-Band CMOS Transmitter With IF-Envelope Feed-Forward Pre-Distortion and Injection-Locked Frequency-Tripling Synthesizer
Author :
Tang, Adrian ; Murphy, David ; Hsiao, Frank ; Virbila, Gabriel ; Wang, Yen-Hsiang ; Wu, Hao ; Kim, Yanghyo ; Chang, Mau-Chung Frank
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Univ. of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), Los Angeles, CA, USA
Volume :
60
Issue :
12
fYear :
2012
Firstpage :
4129
Lastpage :
4137
Abstract :
A D-band CMOS transmitter is presented with an integrated injection-locked frequency-tripling synthesizer, digital control, and an on-chip antenna. It employs an IF feed-forward pre-distortion scheme, which improves gain compression of the transmitter to provide an overall higher linearity gain profile, allowing reduced power back-off for higher peak-to-average modulation schemes. The integrated D-band transmitter consumes 347 mW and occupies 1800× 1500 μm of silicon area. The proposed transmitter delivers 0.4 dBm of effective isotropic radiated power with a saturated power on-chip of at least 12.2 dBm. The transmitter has a peak power-added efficiency (PAE) of 4.8% with power delivered to the antenna and a peak PAE of 0.31% when considering radiated power.
Keywords :
CMOS integrated circuits; frequency multipliers; frequency synthesizers; D band CMOS transmitter; IF envelope feedforward predistortion; IF feedforward predistortion scheme; digital control; integrated injection locked frequency tripling synthesizer; isotropic radiated power; linearity gain profile; modulation scheme; on-chip antenna; peak power added efficiency; power backoff; saturated power on-chip; CMOS integrated circuits; Frequency conversion; Frequency synthesizers; Harmonic analysis; Oscillators; Synthesizers; Transmitters; $D$ -band transmitter; digital-controlled millimeter wave; feed-forward linearization; on-chip antenna;
fLanguage :
English
Journal_Title :
Microwave Theory and Techniques, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher :
ieee
ISSN :
0018-9480
Type :
jour
DOI :
10.1109/TMTT.2012.2222916
Filename :
6355963
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