Abstract:
Millimeter-wave bands open new bands of interest for ultra-high-speed wireless communications, but face technological bottlenecks such as power amplification. Working nea...Show MoreMetadata
Abstract:
Millimeter-wave bands open new bands of interest for ultra-high-speed wireless communications, but face technological bottlenecks such as power amplification. Working near the maximum oscillation frequency of the transistor leads to low intrinsic gain and low efficiency. Digital predistortion (DPD) achieves a higher power efficiency without degrading linearity. This paper presents a co-simulation workflow to design jointly DPD and the power amplifier (PA) in order to reach the optimum performances in linearity and power-added efficiency (PAE). The design of a PA at a center frequency of 142 GHz using the CMOS 28nm FDSOI technology from STMicroelectronics demonstrates how the design flow can take into account continuous wave (CW) and modulated signal simulations with and without DPD. The linearity performance is highlighted on the adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) with an improvement of 4dB on an OFDM signal with 800 MHz bandwidth.
Date of Conference: 19-22 May 2024
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 02 July 2024
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