A CMOS transceiver with internal PA and digital pre-distortion for WLAN 802.11a/b/g/n Applications

Author

Chang, Chia-Jun ; Wang, Po-Chih ; Tsai, Chih-Yu ; Li, Chin-Lung ; Chang, Chiao-Ling ; Shih, Han-Jung ; Tsai, Meng-Hsun ; Wang, Wen-Shan ; Chan, Ka-Un ; Lin, Ying-Hsi

Author_Institution

Realtek Semicond. Corp., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2010

fDate

23-25 May 2010

Firstpage

435

Lastpage

438

Abstract

A 2.4/5GHz Fully-Integrated Transceiver is implemented in 65nm CMOS technology. To alleviate the cost of external front-end components, the G-mode RF transmit/receive (T/R) switch and a power-efficient linear CMOS PA are fully integrated on-chip. On the other hand, for better performance, only the A-mode PA is integrated on-chip while the external T/R switch is used. It shows 5dB and 5.5dB NF in the G-mode and A-mode receivers respectively. Also, the transmitter delivers an average power of 18dBm OFDM (64QAM, 54MBPS) signal with EVM of -28dB for G-mode application and 16dBm OFDM (64QAM, 54MBPS) signal with EVM of -28dB for A-mode application after digital pre-distortion.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; power amplifiers; transceivers; wireless LAN; A-mode PA; CMOS technology; CMOS transceiver; G-mode RF transmit-receive switch; WLAN 802.11 a/b/g/n application; digital predistortion; frequency 2.4 GHz; frequency 5 GHz; fully-integrated transceiver; internal PA; power-efficient linear CMOS PA; Atherosclerosis; CMOS technology; Circuits; Frequency synthesizers; Noise measurement; OFDM; Switches; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wireless LAN; CMOS PA; CMOS switch; CMOS transceiver; Digital Pre-distortion; WLAN 802.11A/B/G/N;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2010 IEEE

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6240-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2010.5477394

Filename

5477394