A Millimeter-Wave Variable-Gain Power Amplifier With P₁ dB Improvement Technique in 65-nm CMOS

IF 2.9 2区工程技术 Q2 ENGINEERING, ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONIC

IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1109/LMWC.2022.3177656

Xiongyao Luo, W. Feng, Haoshen Zhu, Liang Wu, W. Che, Q. Xue

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Abstract

A millimeter-wave (MMW) variable-gain power amplifier (VGPA) with

$P_{\mathrm {1\,dB}}$

improvement technique is proposed. The proposed VGPA consists of a postdistortion power amplifier (PDPA) and a variable-gain amplifier (VGA), for realizing high output power 1-dB compression point (

$P_{\mathrm {1\,dB}}$

) and variable gain, respectively. To improve the

$P_{\mathrm {1\,dB}}$

performances, a postdistortion technique with peaking-mode gain response shaping is proposed. This new approach has less amplitude-to-amplitude (AM–AM) distortion. Fabricated in 65-nm CMOS process, the proposed VGPA achieves 16-dBm output

$P_{\mathrm {1\,dB}}$

with 29.5% power added efficiency (PAE) and 16.7-dBm saturated output power (

$P_{\mathrm {sat}}$

) with 34% peak PAE. The maximum gain reaches 33.1 dB with 3-dB bandwidth from 23.1 to 29 GHz and 31.1-dB dynamic range of gain adjustment.

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65纳米CMOS中P₁dB改进技术的毫米波变增益功率放大器

提出了一种采用$P_{\math {1\，dB}}$改进技术的毫米波变增益功率放大器(VGPA)。该VGPA由一个后失真功率放大器(PDPA)和一个可变增益放大器(VGA)组成，分别实现高输出功率1-dB压缩点($P_{\ mathm {1\，dB}}$)和可变增益。为了提高$P_{\ mathm {1\，dB}}$的性能，提出了一种带峰模增益响应整形的后失真技术。这种新方法具有较小的幅值对幅值(AM-AM)失真。该VGPA采用65纳米CMOS工艺制造，输出功率为16 dbm $P_{\mathrm {1\，dB}}$，功率附加效率(PAE)为29.5%，饱和输出功率为16.7 dbm $P_{\mathrm {sat}}$，峰值PAE为34%。最大增益达到33.1 dB, 3db带宽为23.1 ~ 29 GHz，增益调节动态范围为31.1 dB。

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IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Letters 工程技术-工程：电子与电气

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376

审稿时长

3.0 months

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