A 0.13 μm CMOS stacked folded fully differential PA structure for W-CDMA Application

Author

Luque, Yohann ; Kerhervé, Eric ; Deltimple, Nathalie ; Belot, Didier

Author_Institution

IMS Lab., Talence

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 July 2007

Firstpage

157

Lastpage

160

Abstract

This paper describes the feasibility of a power amplifier (PA) in 0.13mum CMOS technology from STMicroelectronics. It is designed for the UMTS W-CDMA standard. This power amplifier provides 33 dBm maximal output power with 60% of power added efficiency (PAE) at 1.95 GHz. This standard requires linearity from -20 dBm till 24 dBm output power. The linear gain is 16.7 dB and the compression point (OCP1) is 28.25 dBm. In order to fulfil UMTS W-CDMA specifications, especially on linearity, the maximum 24dBm of output power required are reached in a linear class of operation.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; CMOS integrated circuits; broadband networks; code division multiple access; differential amplifiers; integrated circuit design; power amplifiers; wideband amplifiers; CMOS stacked folded fully differential PA structure; STMicroelectronics; UMTS W-CDMA standard; compression point; frequency 1.95 GHz; power amplifier; size 0.13 mum; 3G mobile communication; CMOS technology; Communication standards; Gain; Linearity; Multiaccess communication; Paper technology; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research in Microelectronics and Electronics Conference, 2007. PRIME 2007. Ph.D.

Conference_Location

Bordeaux

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-1000-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-1001-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RME.2007.4401835

Filename

4401835