JOURNAL ARTICLE

CMOS 0.18-μm integrated power amplifier for UWB systems

Abstract

A two-stage power amplifier for UWB systems transmitter was designed and simulated for implementing in standard 0.18-mum CMOS technology. Using cascode scheme and original biasing architecture allows to decrease a number of on-chip inductors and capacitors and simplify amplifier schematic. Amplifier can deliver 30 mW of output power with 48% efficiency in 4-5 GHz bandwidth with 1.8 supply voltage.

Keywords:
CMOS Amplifier Electrical engineering Cascode Schematic RF power amplifier Capacitor Electronic engineering Inductor Direct-coupled amplifier Power-added efficiency Transmitter Operational amplifier Computer science Engineering Voltage Channel (broadcasting)

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Topics

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit Design
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Advanced Power Amplifier Design
Physical Sciences →  Engineering →  Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Gyrotron and Vacuum Electronics Research
Physical Sciences →  Physics and Astronomy →  Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
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