{"title":"A high-efficiency SiGe BiCMOS WCDMA power amplifier with dynamic current biasing for improved average efficiency","authors":"J. Deng, P. Gudem, L. Larson, P. Asbeck","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2004.1320622","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This paper demonstrates a WCDMA single-stage power amplifier, fabricated in a 0.25 /spl mu/m SiGe BiCMOS process. With dynamic biasing of the collector current, the average power efficiency is improved by more than a factor of two compared to a typical class AB power amplifier. The power amplifier satisfies the 3GPP class-III WCDMA adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) specifications (ACPR_5M= -33 dBc and ACPR_10M = -58.8 dBc) with 23.9 dBm average channel output power. The measured output power at the 1 dB compression point is 25.9 dBm.","PeriodicalId":140604,"journal":{"name":"2004 IEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Systems. Digest of Papers","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2004-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"11","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2004 IEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Systems. Digest of Papers","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2004.1320622","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 11
Abstract
This paper demonstrates a WCDMA single-stage power amplifier, fabricated in a 0.25 /spl mu/m SiGe BiCMOS process. With dynamic biasing of the collector current, the average power efficiency is improved by more than a factor of two compared to a typical class AB power amplifier. The power amplifier satisfies the 3GPP class-III WCDMA adjacent channel power ratio (ACPR) specifications (ACPR_5M= -33 dBc and ACPR_10M = -58.8 dBc) with 23.9 dBm average channel output power. The measured output power at the 1 dB compression point is 25.9 dBm.