A 90-nm CMOS power amplifier for 802.16e (WiMAX) applications

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 5 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1431-1437

  Degani, Ofir ^a   Cossoy, Fabian ^a   Shahaf, Shay ^a   Cohen, Emanuel ^a   Kravtsov, Vladimir ^a   Sendik, Omry ^a   Chowdhury, Debopriyo ^b   Hull, Christopher D ^a   Ravid, Shmuel ^a  

^a INTEL CORPORATION   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

64-QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATIONS; 802.16E STANDARD; CMOS POWER AMPLIFIERS; CREST FACTOR REDUCTIONS; ERROR VECTOR MAGNITUDE; FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION; OUTPUT POWER; PEAK POWER; POWER EFFICIENCY; PREDISTORTION TECHNIQUES; QUADRATURE PHASE; SATURATED POWER; SECOND HARMONICS; SINGLE STAGE;

INTEROPERABILITY; POWER AMPLIFIERS; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; WIMAX;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS;

EID: 77952425220     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2042906     Document Type: Conference Paper

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