A 0.13µm CMOS double-cascode power amplifier driver for a 40 GHz radio-over-fiber system

Author

Farid, Nazif Emran ; Mohd Hassan, Siti Maisurah ; Sanusi, Rasidah

Author_Institution

TM R&D, Analog Design Lab., Cyberjaya, Malaysia

fYear

2014

fDate

7-10 Sept. 2014

Firstpage

124

Lastpage

129

Abstract

A 40 GHz power amplifier (PA) driver for the remote antenna unit (RAU) transceiver of a mm-wave radio-over-fiber (RoF) system is presented in this paper. Mm-wave RoF is proposed as a complementary technology to fiber-to-the-home to minimize costs and to increase bandwidth. In order for RoF to be feasible, the cost of the RAU must be minimized through low-cost technology such as CMOS. The PA driver is designed using a 0.13μm CMOS process. The architecture used is a 3-stage common-gate input with double-cascode subsequent stages. It has input and output reflection coefficients that are better than -10 dB over a bandwidth of 5 GHz. Gain is 13.6 dB and output P1dB is 5 dBm.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; field effect MIMIC; millimetre wave power amplifiers; millimetre wave receivers; radio transceivers; radio-over-fibre; 3-stage common-gate input; CMOS double-cascode power amplifier driver; RAU transceiver; RoF system; bandwidth 5 GHz; double-cascode subsequent stages; frequency 40 GHz; gain 13.6 dB; mm-wave radio-over-fiber system; radio-over-fiber system; remote antenna unit transceiver; size 0.13 micron; Capacitors; Layout; Optical fiber amplifiers; Optical fiber networks; Power amplifiers; Wireless communication; CMOS; CPE; CS; FTTH; HSBB; RAU; RoF; amplifier; cascode; central station; customer premise eqipment; fiber-to-the-home; radio-over-fiber; remote antenna unit;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications (WPMC), 2014 International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Sydney, NSW

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WPMC.2014.7014803

Filename

7014803