Design of a one-chip power amplifier with transmission line based matching circuit

Author

Kanaya, Haruichi ; Koga, Fuminori ; Nakamura, Tetsutya ; Jia, Li-Juan ; Yoshida, Keiji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan

Volume

2

fYear

2005

Firstpage

898

Abstract

We designed a SiGe BiCMOS 5.8 GHz power amplifier (PA) by using the commercial electromagnetic (EM) and SPICE co-simulator. At first, in order to evaluate the EM simulator, we prepared the on-chip spiral inductor and compared the measurement results with SPICE model and EM simulation results. The experimental results of the inductance of the spiral inductor are consistent with that of the EM simulation. Next, a new matching circuit composed of conductor-backed coplanar waveguide (CPW) meanderline resonators and impedance inverters are designed. Finally, we designed die 5.8 GHz PA with CPW matching circuit, spiral inductor and feed line by using EM and SPICE co-simulator.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; MMIC power amplifiers; SPICE; coplanar waveguide components; impedance convertors; resonators; 5.8 GHz; BiCMOS; CPW meanderline resonator; SPICE cosimulator; SiGe; conductor-backed coplanar waveguide; electromagnetic simulator; feed line; impedance inverter; on-chip spiral inductor; one-chip power amplifier; transmission line based matching circuit; Circuit simulation; Coplanar waveguides; Distributed parameter circuits; Germanium silicon alloys; Inductors; Power amplifiers; Power transmission lines; SPICE; Silicon germanium; Spirals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave, Antenna, Propagation and EMC Technologies for Wireless Communications, 2005. MAPE 2005. IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9128-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MAPE.2005.1618065

Filename

1618065