A 25 dBm digitally modulated CMOS power amplifier for WCDMA/EDGE/OFDM with adaptive digital predistortion and efficient power control

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1883-1896

  Presti, Calogero D ^a   Carrara, Francesco ^b   Scuderi, Antonino ^c   Asbeck, Peter M ^a   Palmisano, Giuseppe ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^c STMICROELECTRONICS   (Italy)

Author keywords

All digital; CMOS; Digital predistortion (DPD); Digital transmitter; Digitally modulated power amplifier (DPA); Dynamic biasing; EDGE; High efficiency amplifier; IEEE 802.16; Multi band; Multi mode; Multi standard; OFDM; Polar transmitter; WiMAX

Indexed keywords

ALL DIGITAL; CMOS; DIGITAL PREDISTORTION (DPD); DIGITAL TRANSMITTER; DIGITALLY MODULATED POWER AMPLIFIER (DPA); DYNAMIC BIASING; EDGE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY AMPLIFIER; IEEE 802.16; MULTI-BAND; MULTI-MODE; MULTI-STANDARD; OFDM; POLAR TRANSMITTER;

FREQUENCY ALLOCATION; INTEROPERABILITY; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; STANDARDS; WIMAX;

TRANSMITTERS;

EID: 67651177763     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2009.2020226     Document Type: Article

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