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Poster
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Ajmal Vadakkan Kayyil
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AffiliationOregon State University
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Abstract
The CMOS switched-capacitor power amplifier (SCPA) architecture was disclosed by S.M. Yoo, et al., in 2011 [1]-[2]. It enabled the design of fully-integrated radio frequency (RF) transmitters with much higher power-added efficiency (PAE) than previous approaches. Herein, new techniques are introduced that also increase SCPA linearity. Specifically, a new switching scheme decreases the amplitude modulation to phase modulation (AM-PM) distortion. When applied to a class-G SCPA [3]-[4], the linearity using the new switching scheme is improved significantly compared to a conventional SCPA implementation. More specifically, the AM-PM non-linearity of the class-G SCPA is reduced by about ~ 4X and the EVM is improved by ~ 3 dB.