A 2-GHz Highly Linear Efficient Dual-Mode BiCMOS Power Amplifier Using a Reconfigurable Matching Network Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A highly linear, efficient, two-stage power amplifier for high-data-rate wireless applications is presented. The linearity is greatly improved by adding an auxiliary amplifier to the main bipolar transistor amplifier in a feed-forward approach to cancel out the nonlinearity terms. The efficiency enhancement is achieved using a switchable biasing and a reconfigurable output-matching network based on the available input power which is monitored by an on-chip envelope detector. The PA is fabricated using 0.25-$ mu$m SiGe:C BiCMOS technology and works at 2 GHz with a supply voltage of 2.5 V. The experimental results show a gain of 13 dB and a maximum output power of 23 dBm with a PAE of 38%. The 1-dB output power compression point is 21 dBm with a 32% PAE. The 6-dB power back-off PAE is 23%. The ${
    m IM}3and ${
    m IM}5terms are 41 and 44 dB below the fundamental tone for the 21-dBm output power, respectively. The EVM has been measured to be ${-}$30.7 dB at 15-dBm average output power using IEEE 802.16e standard WiMAX 64QAM modulated signal. By employing the linearization technique, EVM and ACLR are improved by 4.5 and 5 dB, respectively, for a WiMAX 64QAM 10-MHz signal bandwidth at 14-dBm average output power. © 1966-2012 IEEE.
  • A highly linear, efficient, two-stage power amplifier for high-data-rate wireless applications is presented. The linearity is greatly improved by adding an auxiliary amplifier to the main bipolar transistor amplifier in a feed-forward approach to cancel out the nonlinearity terms. The efficiency enhancement is achieved using a switchable biasing and a reconfigurable output-matching network based on the available input power which is monitored by an on-chip envelope detector. The PA is fabricated using 0.25-$ mu$m SiGe:C BiCMOS technology and works at 2 GHz with a supply voltage of 2.5 V. The experimental results show a gain of 13 dB and a maximum output power of 23 dBm with a PAE of 38%. The 1-dB output power compression point is 21 dBm with a 32% PAE. The 6-dB power back-off PAE is 23%. The ${m IM}3and ${m IM}5terms are 41 and 44 dB below the fundamental tone for the 21-dBm output power, respectively. The EVM has been measured to be ${-}$30.7 dB at 15-dBm average output power using IEEE 802.16e standard WiMAX 64QAM modulated signal. By employing the linearization technique, EVM and ACLR are improved by 4.5 and 5 dB, respectively, for a WiMAX 64QAM 10-MHz signal bandwidth at 14-dBm average output power. © 1966-2012 IEEE.

published proceedings

  • IEEE JOURNAL OF SOLID-STATE CIRCUITS

altmetric score

  • 3

author list (cited authors)

  • Hedayati, H., Mobarak, M., Varin, G., Meunier, P., Gamand, P., Sanchez-Sinencio, E., & Entesari, K.

citation count

  • 17

complete list of authors

  • Hedayati, Hajir||Mobarak, Mohamed||Varin, Guillaume||Meunier, Philippe||Gamand, Patrice||Sanchez-Sinencio, Edgar||Entesari, Kamran

publication date

  • July 2012