A fully integrated low-power CMOS power amplifier for biomedical applications

Author

Abdelsayed, Samar M. ; Deen, M. Jamal ; Nikolova, Natalia K.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McMaster Univ., Hamilton, Ont., Canada

Volume

3

fYear

2005

fDate

4-6 Oct. 2005

Abstract

There is an emerging need for fully integrated power amplifiers (PAs) for very low-power implanted wireless transceivers. A fully integrated power amplifier circuit operating at 2.45 GHz is presented in this work. The layout of the circuit was designed carefully. Optimization was performed on the interconnections between the circuit components, which resulted in minimized parasitics of the on-silicon metal wires and hence very good performance. Measurement results show that at 1.4 V supply, the PA delivers an output power of 4.5 mW with a 28.5 % power-added efficiency (PAE) and a gain of 19.5 dB. With this performance, the circuit has proved to be well-suited for low-power biomedical implanted transceiver systems.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; biomedical communication; circuit optimisation; integrated circuit interconnections; integrated circuit layout; low-power electronics; power amplifiers; 1.4 V; 19.5 dB; 2.45 GHz; 4.5 mW; biomedical applications; circuit interconnections; circuit layout; circuit optimization; fully integrated power amplifier circuit; low-power CMOS power amplifier; low-power biomedical implanted transceiver system; on-silicon metal wire; power-added efficiency; Application software; Biomedical measurements; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Humans; Integrated circuit measurements; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Radio frequency; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference, 2005 European

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-2-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EUMC.2005.1610289

Filename

1610289