A highly linear and efficient driver amplifier for 1.6 GHz navigation transmitter application

Author

Wei, Huiting ; Li, Weimin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Navig., Beijng Microelectron. Technol. Inst., Beijing, China

fYear

2010

fDate

2-4 Nov. 2010

Firstpage

573

Lastpage

576

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a driver amplifier for 1.6 GHz navigation transmitter application based on 0.35um RF CMOS process. In this work, a two-stage topology is proposed. The first stage employs two parallel transistors working in class AB and B mode respectively to improve the linearity and efficiency of the driver. The second stage utilizes a class AB common source amplifier to further increase the performance. The simulated results exhibit a maximum OIP3 of 17.3 dBm, a PAE of 57%, a saturated output power of 18.5 dBm, a power gain of 26 dB with a total dc current consumption of only 5.4 mA from a voltage supply of 3.3 V.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; driver circuits; integrated circuit design; power amplifiers; RF CMOS process; current 5.4 mA; driver amplifier; efficiency 57 percent; frequency 1.6 GHz; gain 26 dB; navigation transmitter application; size 0.35 mum; two-stage topology; voltage 3.3 V; Navigation; Radio frequency; Wireless communication; Zigbee; driver amplifier; effficiency; linearity;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Technology and Development (ICCTD), 2010 2nd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cairo

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-8844-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-8845-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCTD.2010.5645960

Filename

5645960