A fully-integrated quad-band GSM/GPRS CMOS power amplifier

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 43, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2747-2758

  Aoki, Ichiro ^a   Kee, Scott ^a   Magoon, Rahul ^b   Aparicio, Roberto ^b   Bohn, Florian ^c   Zachan, Jeff ^b   Hatcher, Geoff ^b   McClymont, Donald ^b   Hajimiri, Ali ^c  

^a AyDeeKay LLC   (United States)

^b Axiom Microdevices Inc   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS RF; CMOSFET power amplifiers; Distributed active transformer (DAT); Global system for mobile communications (GSM); Power control; Reliability

Indexed keywords

BEAMFORMING; CELLULAR TELEPHONE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; POWER AMPLIFIERS; POWER CONTROL; RAILROAD TUNNELS; RELIABILITY; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

ALL PHASE; CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS; CMOS PROCESSES; CMOS RF; CMOSFET POWER AMPLIFIERS; DISTRIBUTED ACTIVE TRANSFORMER (DAT); GLOBAL SYSTEM FOR MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (GSM); GSM/GPRS; INPUT AND OUTPUTS; NOMINAL OPERATIONS; ON CHIPS; RELIABILITY MONITORING; RF POWERS; SILICON DIES; SINGLE FAILURES; SUPPLY VOLTAGES;

POWER TRANSFORMERS;

EID: 57849151310     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2008.2004870     Document Type: Conference Paper

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