RF and mm-Wave Power Generation in Silicon

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-12-408052-2
Verlag: ACADEMIC PRESS

Buch, Englisch, 576 Seiten, Format (B × H): 198 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1382 g

RF and mm-Wave Power Generation in Silicon presents the challenges and solutions of designing power amplifiers at RF and mm-Wave frequencies in a silicon-based process technology. It covers practical power amplifier design methodologies, energy- and spectrum-efficient power amplifier design examples in the RF frequency for cellular and wireless connectivity applications, and power amplifier and power generation designs for enabling new communication and sensing applications in the mm-Wave and THz frequencies.

With this book you will learn:

- Power amplifier design fundamentals and methodologies
- Latest advances in silicon-based RF power amplifier architectures and designs and their integration in wireless communication systems
- State-of-the-art mm-Wave/THz power amplifier and power generation circuits and systems in silicon

Zielgruppe

Design engineers of Analog and IC Circuits

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wang, Hua

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Elektronik | Nachrichtentechnik Elektronik Schaltungsentwurf

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

Part I: Power amplifier design methodologies 2. Power amplifier fundamentals

Part II: RF Power Amplifier Design Examples 3. CMOS power amplifier design for wireless connectivity applications: A highly linear WLAN power amplifier in advanced SoC CMOS 4. CMOS power amplifier design for cellular applications: An EDGE/GSM dual-mode quad-band PA in 0.18 µm CMOS 5. Energy-efficiency enhancement and linear amplifications: A transformer-based Doherty approach 6. Linear power amplification with high back-off efficiency: An out-phasing approach 7. Energy efficiency enhancement and linear amplifications: An envelope-tracking (ET) approach 8. A digital RF power amplification technique based on the switched-capacitor circuit 9. A transformer-based reconfigurable digital polar Doherty power amplifier fully integrated in bulk CMOS

Part III: mm-Wave and Terahertz Power Generation Design Examples 10. 60 GHz all silicon radio IC: How it all started 11. mm-Wave power-combining architectures: Current combining 12. mm-Wave power-combining architectures: Hybrid combining 13. mm-Wave CMOS design above 60 GHz 14. Self-healing techniques for robust mm-Wave power amplification 15. mm-Wave class-E PA design in CMOS 16. High-speed, efficient, mm-Wave power-mixer-based digital transmitters 17. THz power generation beyond transistor fmax 18. THz signal generation, radiation, and beam-forming in silicon: A circuit and electromagnetics co-design approach 19. Silicon-based THz signal generation with multiphase subharmonic injection-locking oscillators