A 15-Bit Quadrature Digital Power Amplifier With Transformer-Based Complex-Domain Efficiency Enhancement

This article presents a 15-bit quadrature digital power amplifier (DPA) with in-phase and quadrature (IQ)-cell-sharing and transformer-based Doherty operation, which compensates the 3-dB power loss in traditional quadrature architecture and enhances efficiency. Efficiency enhancement at 3-/6-dB powe...

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Veröffentlicht in:IEEE journal of solid-state circuits 2022-06, Vol.57 (6), p.1610-1622
Hauptverfasser: Li, Yicheng, Yin, Yun, Zheng, Diyang, Jia, Xianglong, Lin, Jie, Gao, Fu, Zhu, Yiting, Xiong, Liang, Yan, Na, Lu, Ye, Xu, Hongtao
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Zusammenfassung:This article presents a 15-bit quadrature digital power amplifier (DPA) with in-phase and quadrature (IQ)-cell-sharing and transformer-based Doherty operation, which compensates the 3-dB power loss in traditional quadrature architecture and enhances efficiency. Efficiency enhancement at 3-/6-dB power backoffs (PBOs) is obtained on the IQ complex plane to improve average efficiency. A single-transformer-footprint parallel-combining transformer (PCT) power combiner is implemented for compact die size. Fabricated in a 55-nm CMOS technology, the DPA is powered by 1.2-/2.4-V supply voltages and the core circuit only occupies 1.05 \times 1.14-mm 2 chip area. It achieves 29.3-dBm peak output power with power added efficiency (PAE) of 43.1%. With 10-MHz 64-quadratic-amplitude modulation (QAM) local thermal equilibrium (LTE) signal, the DPA achieves P_{\mathrm {avg}} of 23.62 dBm and the average PAE of 24.4% with −25.6-dB error vector magnitude (EVM) at 0.85 GHz without using any digital predistortion (DPD) technique. Moreover, for 20-MHz 64-QAM wireless local area network (WLAN) signal, P_{\mathrm {avg}} of 21.01 dBm and the average PAE of 20.1% are obtained with −25.1-dB EVM.
ISSN:0018-9200
1558-173X
DOI:10.1109/JSSC.2021.3128363