A high-resolution 24-dBm Digitally-Controlled CMOS PA for multi-standard RF polar transmitters

ESSCIRC 2008 - Proceedings of the 34th European Solid-State Circuits Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 482-485

  Presti, Calogero D ^a   Carrara, Francesco ^a   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^a   Scuderi, Antonino ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MODULATION; NETWORKS (CIRCUITS); POWER AMPLIFIERS; RADIO TRANSMITTERS; TRANSMITTERS;

BUILDING BLOCKS; CMOS PA; DIRECT AMPLITUDE MODULATIONS; GAIN CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTIONS; LARGE ARRAYS; NEW STRATEGIES; PEAK OUTPUT POWERS; POLAR TRANSMITTERS; POWER EFFICIENCIES; RF GAINS; SMALL SIGNALS; TRANSMIT POWER CONTROLS;

RADIO BROADCASTING;

EID: 58049110424     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2008.4681897     Document Type: Conference Paper

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