{"title":"A 5.2-GHz silicon bipolar power amplifier for IEEE 802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless LANs","authors":"A. Scuderi, F. Carrara, Guiseppe Palmisano","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIR.2004.1356653","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A monolithic 5.2-GHz linear power amplifier for IEEE802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless local area networks was integrated using a low-cost 46-GHz-f/sub T/ silicon bipolar process. At a 3-V supply voltage, the circuit exhibits a 25-dBm saturated output power, 26% maximum power-added efficiency, and 23.5-dBm output 1-dB compression point. The small-signal gain is 24 dB. Thanks to a linearizing bias network, the power amplifier is able to comply with the stringent error vector magnitude requirements of the standard up to a 19-dBm output power level. The device also features a power control function with a high dynamic range of 40 dB.","PeriodicalId":294077,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the 30th European Solid-State Circuits Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIR.2004.1356653","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
A monolithic 5.2-GHz linear power amplifier for IEEE802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless local area networks was integrated using a low-cost 46-GHz-f/sub T/ silicon bipolar process. At a 3-V supply voltage, the circuit exhibits a 25-dBm saturated output power, 26% maximum power-added efficiency, and 23.5-dBm output 1-dB compression point. The small-signal gain is 24 dB. Thanks to a linearizing bias network, the power amplifier is able to comply with the stringent error vector magnitude requirements of the standard up to a 19-dBm output power level. The device also features a power control function with a high dynamic range of 40 dB.