A SiGe BiCMOS High Voltage Driver for Class-S Power Amplifier

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作者
Park, Bonghyuk [1 ]
Jang, Seunghyun [1 ]
Jung, Jaeho [1 ]
机构
[1] Elect & Telecommun Res Inst, Taejon 305700, South Korea
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2012 IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON RADIO-FREQUENCY INTEGRATION TECHNOLOGY (RFIT) | 2012年
关键词
high voltage driver; Class-S; Switching power amplifier; BiCMOS; MODULATION;
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TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
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0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A high voltage driver for Class-S power amplifier using SiGe BiCMOS process is presented in this paper. This high voltage driver is applied for making high voltage swing at the input of a power amplifier. The input of this driver is 600 mVp-p then the measured output is 780 mVp-p for single-ended. This driver dissipates 202 mW and it is suited for processing a bit stream of 2.4 Gbps and can be used as a driver stage for switching power amplifier. This high voltage driver is measured with fabricated delta-sigma modulator module.
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