{"title":"A +30.5 dBm CMOS Doherty power amplifier with reliability enhancement technique","authors":"Kohei Onizuka, S. Saigusa, S. Otaka","doi":"10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243798","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A watt-level, fully integrated 1:1 Doherty power amplifier for 2.4 GHz band is demonstrated in 65 nm CMOS. Both high peak output power of +30.5 dBm and high PAE of 23% at 6 dB power back-off are achieved by the proposed compact output network. A newly introduced reliability enhancement technique for sub-PA prolongs time to failure by up to 75% as well. The PA satisfies IEEE 802.11b and 11g spectrum masks at output power levels of 25.5 and 21.5 dBm respectively, from supply voltage of 3.3 V.","PeriodicalId":6347,"journal":{"name":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","volume":"26 1","pages":"78-79"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"20","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2012 Symposium on VLSI Circuits (VLSIC)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/VLSIC.2012.6243798","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 20
Abstract
A watt-level, fully integrated 1:1 Doherty power amplifier for 2.4 GHz band is demonstrated in 65 nm CMOS. Both high peak output power of +30.5 dBm and high PAE of 23% at 6 dB power back-off are achieved by the proposed compact output network. A newly introduced reliability enhancement technique for sub-PA prolongs time to failure by up to 75% as well. The PA satisfies IEEE 802.11b and 11g spectrum masks at output power levels of 25.5 and 21.5 dBm respectively, from supply voltage of 3.3 V.