A 2.7-5.5 V, 0.2-1 W BiCMOS RF driver amplifier IC with closed-loop power control and biasing functions

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2259-2264

  Wong, Stephen L ^a,b,c   Luo, Sifen ^a,d,e,f,g,h  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b MAXIM INTEGRATED PRODUCTS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f Shanghai Inst of Electronic Physics   (China)

^g TEKTRONIX INC   (United States)

^h Herotek Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplifiers; BiCMOS analog IC; MMIC amplifiers; RK bipolar IC

Indexed keywords

BIPOLAR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC FILTERS; GAIN CONTROL; MONOLITHIC MICROWAVE INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; VOLTAGE REGULATORS;

BIASING; BICMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; CLOSED LOOP POWER CONTROL;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 0032313023     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/4.735711     Document Type: Article

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