A Multilevel Class-D CMOS Power Amplifier for an Out-Phasing Transmitter With a Nonisolated Power Combiner

被引：27

作者：

Hur, Joonhoi ^{[1
]}

Kim, Hyoungsoo ^{[2
]}

Lee, Ockgoo ^{[3
]}

Kim, Kwan-Woo ^{[1
]}

Bien, Franklin ^{[4
]}

Lim, Kyutae ^{[5
]}

Lee, Chang-Ho ^{[1
]}

Laskar, Joy ^{[6
,7
]}

机构：

[1] Qualcomm Inc, San Diego, CA 92121 USA

[2] Calif State Polytech Univ Pomona Cal Poly Pomona, Dept Elect & Comp Engn, Pomona, CA 91768 USA

[3] Pusan Natl Univ, Dept Elect Engn, Busan 609735, South Korea

[4] Ulsan Natl Inst Sci & Technol, Ulsan 689798, South Korea

[5] Georgia Inst Technol, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[6] Anayas 360, Sunnyvale, CA 94087 USA

[7] Hong Kong Univ Sci & Technol HKUST, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Peoples R China

来源：

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS II-EXPRESS BRIEFS | 2016年 / 63卷 / 07期

关键词：

Class-D power amplifier (PA); complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS); linear amplifier with nonlinear components (LINC); nonisolated power combiner; PA; AMPLIFICATION;

D O I：

10.1109/TCSII.2016.2530199

中图分类号：

TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];

学科分类号：

0808 ; 0809 ;

摘要：

This brief presents a nonisolated multilevel linear amplifier with nonlinear component (LINC) power amplifier (PA) implemented in a standard 0.18-mu m complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process. Using a nonisolated power combiner, the overall power efficiency is increased by reducing the wasted power at the combined out-phased signal; however, the efficiency at low power still needs to be improved. To further improve the efficiency of the low-power (LP) mode, we propose a multiple-output power-level LINC PA, with load modulation implemented by switches. In addition, analysis of the proposed design on the system level as well as the circuit level was performed to optimize its performance. The measurement results demonstrate that the proposed technique maintains more than 45% power-added efficiency (PAE) for peak power at 21 dB for the high-power mode and 17 dBm for the LP mode at 600 MHz. The PAE for a 6-dB peak-to-average ratio orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing modulated signal is higher than 24% PAE in both power modes. To the authors' knowledge, the proposed output-phasing PA is the first implemented multilevel LINC PA that uses quarter-wave lines without multiple power supply sources.

引用

页码：618 / 622

页数：5

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