A fully-integrated efficient CMOS inverse class-D power amplifier for digital polar transmitters

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1113-1122

  Chowdhury, Debopriyo ^a   Thyagarajan, Siva V ^b   Ye, Lu ^b   Alon, Elad ^b   Niknejad, Ali M ^b  

^a BROADCOM CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; mixed analog digital integrated circuits; OFDM; power amplifiers; predistortion; switching circuits; transformers

Indexed keywords

CLASS-D; MIXED ANALOG-DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; MIXED SIGNAL; OUTPUT MATCHING NETWORK; PEAK EFFICIENCY; POLAR TRANSMITTER; PRE-DISTORTION; SWITCHING AMPLIFIERS;

CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; DIGITAL INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; EFFICIENCY; ELECTRIC TRANSFORMERS; ORTHOGONAL FREQUENCY DIVISION MULTIPLEXING; POWER AMPLIFIERS; SWITCHING CIRCUITS; TRANSMITTERS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS;

EID: 84860434834     PISSN: 00189200     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2012.2185555     Document Type: Conference Paper

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