{"title":"A current re-use PA-VCO cell for low-power BLE transmitters","authors":"Chuanwei Li, A. Liscidini","doi":"10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313856","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A current re-use PA-VCO cell for FSK transmitters is presented. High efficiency and low phase noise are obtained through the stacking of a PA and a class-C VCO. Without the use of any DC-DC converters, the voltage headroom of these two blocks can be set maximizing the efficiency of both the PA and the VCO. The structure is inserted in a 130nm CMOS BLE transmitter. A TX efficiency of 17.5% is achieved delivering an output power of -1dBm at 2.4GHz with a VCO phase noise of -129dBc/Hz @ 2.5MHz frequency offset.","PeriodicalId":11845,"journal":{"name":"ESSCIRC Conference 2015 - 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ESSCIRC Conference 2015 - 41st European Solid-State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ESSCIRC.2015.7313856","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A current re-use PA-VCO cell for FSK transmitters is presented. High efficiency and low phase noise are obtained through the stacking of a PA and a class-C VCO. Without the use of any DC-DC converters, the voltage headroom of these two blocks can be set maximizing the efficiency of both the PA and the VCO. The structure is inserted in a 130nm CMOS BLE transmitter. A TX efficiency of 17.5% is achieved delivering an output power of -1dBm at 2.4GHz with a VCO phase noise of -129dBc/Hz @ 2.5MHz frequency offset.
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