• DocumentCode
    1987186
  • Title

    A Low Power CMOS Full-Band UWB Power Amplifier Using Wideband RLC Matching Method

  • Author

    Hsu, Han Chou ; Wang, Zhi Wei ; Ma, Gin Kou

  • Author_Institution
    M300 & M200, Soc Technology Center (STC), ITRI, Hsinchu 310, Taiwan, R.O.C. Email: H.C.H@itri.org.tw
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    19-21 Dec. 2005
  • Firstpage
    233
  • Lastpage
    236
  • Abstract
    This paper presents the design and implementation of a power amplifier for full-band UWB communication system by TSMC CMOS 0.18um technology. We use common source topology with an improved wideband RLC filter method and multilevel RLC matching method to achieve the wideband input/output matching and broadband power gain requirements. In order to increase the bandwidth, we also use both the cascade and cascade stage to increase the gain and gain flatness. Die-on-PCB measurements has shown this PA provides an average power gain of 10dB which from 3.1GHz-9GHz, average Pout_ldB of 0dBm in full-band(3.1GHz-10.6GHz), along with the power consumption of 25.2mW.
  • Keywords
    Bandwidth; Broadband amplifiers; CMOS technology; Gain measurement; Impedance matching; Matched filters; Power amplifiers; Power measurement; Topology; Ultra wideband communication;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electron Devices and Solid-State Circuits, 2005 IEEE Conference on
  • Print_ISBN
    0-7803-9339-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EDSSC.2005.1635249
  • Filename
    1635249