A two-point modulation technique for CMOS power amplifier in polar transmitter architecture

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-38

  Shameli, Amin ^b,c   Safarian, Aminghasem ^b,c   Rofougaran, Ahmadreza ^a,c   Rofougaran, Maryam ^c   De Flaviis, Franco ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b University of California at Irvine   (United States)

^c BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplitude modulation; CMOS power amplifier (PA); Nonlinear PA; Polar transmitter; Transmitter

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; BANDWIDTH; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DELTA SIGMA MODULATION; ELECTRIC CURRENT CONTROL; TRANSMITTERS;

NONLINEAR POWER AMPLIFIERS; POLAR TRANSMITTERS;

POWER AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 38149003753     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2007.912012     Document Type: Article

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