A 5-GHz 20-dBm power amplifier with digitally assisted AM-PM correction in a 90-nm CMOS process

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1757-1762

  Palaskas, Yorgos ^a,b   Taylor, Stewart S ^b   Pellerano, Stefano ^a,b   Rippke, Ian ^a,b,c   Bishop, Ralph ^b   Ravi, Ashoke ^a,b   Lakdawala, Hasnain ^a,b   Soumyanath, K ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^c Xpedion Design Systems Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

AM PM distortion; Linearization; Power amplifier (PA)

Indexed keywords

AM-PM DISTORTION; FEEDFORWARD FASHION; IQ BASEBAND DATA; TUNED CIRCUIT;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; LINEARIZATION; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; PHASE SHIFT; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; VARACTORS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 33746920537     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2006.877255     Document Type: Conference Paper

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