Switchable V-band Power Amplifier with Ultra-Fast Turn-On for Aggressive Duty-Cycling

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Abstract

Aggressive duty-cycling is an approach to reduce the DC power demand of wireless networks. Turning off the power hungry blocks as often and as long as possible requires them to have fast operating point switching (OPS) times with a low energy consumption. This paper presents a V-band SiGe power amplifier (PA) with ultra-fast transition times. An approach of deriving the turn-on/off times is proposed and a method to measure the energy consumption during the OPS is presented. The single-stage inverse class-E PA achieves a power-added-efficiency (PAE) of 24.8% and an output power of 8.5 dBm at 54 GHz and 2 dBm available source power. It reaches these continuous-wave characteristics within 7.3 ns and a single OPS cycle consumes about 100 pJ.

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Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference (EuMIC)
PublisherIEEE
Pages329-332
Number of pages4
ISBN (electronic)9782874870736
ISBN (print)979-8-3503-4833-0
Publication statusPublished - 19 Sept 2023
Peer-reviewedYes

Conference

Title2023 18th European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference
Abbreviated titleEuMIC 2023
Conference number18
Duration18 - 19 September 2023
Degree of recognitionInternational event
LocationMesse Berlin
CityBerlin
CountryGermany

External IDs

ORCID /0000-0002-0088-8412/work/145695053
ORCID /0000-0001-9692-2808/work/145696667
Scopus 85177241095

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Keywords

  • Energy consumption, Aggressive Duty-Cycling, Wireless networks, Power amplifiers, Energy measurement, inverse class-E, BiCMOS integrated circuits, operating point switching, power amplifiers, duty-cycling, transmitter