IEICE Trans - 2.4/5.2 GHz Dual Band CMOS Driver Stage with Integrated 5.2 GHz Power Amplifier

2.4/5.2 GHz Dual Band CMOS Driver Stage with Integrated 5.2 GHz Power Amplifier

YunSeong EO
KwangDu LEE

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E88-C No.8 pp.1772-1778
Publication Date: 2005/08/01
Online ISSN:
DOI: 10.1093/ietele/e88-c.8.1772
Print ISSN: 0916-8516
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Microwaves, Millimeter-Waves
Keyword:
CMOS, dual band, power amplifier (PA), WLAN,

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Summary:
A 2.4/5.2 GHz CMOS dual band driver stages with integrated 5.2 GHz power amplifier is presented in this work. For more accurate simulation of high power CMOS amplifier, a re-optimized macro NMOS model is used, whose nonlinear model accuracy is enhanced and its validity is proved by comparing load pull simulation with measurement. In order to achieve band selection, it has switched matching circuits at the first stage and SPDT path switch following them. At 2.4 GHz and 5.2 GHz bands, the achieved values of P_sat of the switched amplifier are 9.7 dBm and 19.5 dBm, respectively. The achieved PAE is 15.3% at 5.2 GHz.