A Single-Supply Single-Core Inverse Class-D Digital Power Amplifier with Enhanced Power Back-Off Efficiency Adopting Output Power Scaling Technique

Kyung Sik Choi, Jinho Ko, Sang Gug Lee

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Abstract

This work presents a current-mode inverse Class-D digital PA (DPA) with enhanced power back-off (PBO) efficiency. The PA adopts extra switches, which allows the scaling in the output voltage swing by half, leading to (theoretically) 6 dB enhancement in PBO efficiency while maintaining (ideally) 100% drain efficiency (DE). Implemented in a 65 nm CMOS, the proposed DPA shows the improvement in DE by ×1.5 at 4.2 dB PBO in comparison with normalized Class-B PA while requiring only one transformer and single-supply voltage.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2021 Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI Circuits 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9784863487796
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Jun 2021
Event35th Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI Circuits 2021 - Virutal, Online
Duration: 13 Jun 202119 Jun 2021

Publication series

NameIEEE Symposium on VLSI Circuits, Digest of Technical Papers
Volume2021-June

Conference

Conference35th Symposium on VLSI Circuits, VLSI Circuits 2021
CityVirutal, Online
Period13/06/2119/06/21

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