• DocumentCode
    597049
  • Title

    Analysis and characterization of mismatches in outphasing transmitter

  • Author

    Kulkarni, Santosh ; Dixian Zhao ; Reynaert, Patrick

  • Author_Institution
    ESAT-MICAS, Katholieke Univ. Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    9-12 Dec. 2012
  • Firstpage
    169
  • Lastpage
    172
  • Abstract
    The effect of imbalances in the quadrature modulators and the two RF paths of an outphasing transmitter are studied in this paper. A matlab model describing all the mismatches is used to investigate the effects on error vector magnitude (EVM) and adjacent channel interference. A test vector based method is used to measure and therefore compensate mismatch. This is applied in a 60 GHz outphasing transmitter in 40nm CMOS and measured mismatch is minimized further by using the compensation scheme. This resulted in improvement in output power and efficiency.
  • Keywords
    quadrature amplitude modulation; transmitters; Matlab model; adjacent channel interference; characterization; compensate mismatch; error vector magnitude; frequency 60 GHz; mismatches; outphasing transmitter; output power; quadrature modulators; test vector based method; CMOS integrated circuits; Degradation; Linearity; Mathematical model; Power generation; Transmitters; Vectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Electronics, Circuits and Systems (ICECS), 2012 19th IEEE International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Seville
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1261-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1259-2
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICECS.2012.6463773
  • Filename
    6463773