Continuous-Time Digital Front-Ends for Multistandard Wireless Transmission

• Main Authors: Nuyts, Pieter A. J. (Author), Reynaert, Patrick (Author), Dehaene, Wim (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Analog Circuits and Signal Processing,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Electronics.; Microelectronics.; Electronic circuits.; Circuits and Systems.; Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation.; Signal, Image and Speech Processing.

This book describes the design of fully digital multistandard transmitter front-ends which can directly drive one or more switching power amplifiers, thus eliminating all other analog components.  After reviewing different architectures, the authors focus on polar architectures using pulse width mod...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Digital Transmitter Architectures: Overview
• High-Level Analysis of Fully Digital PWM Transmitters
• Continuous-time Digital Design Techniques
• A 65-nm CMOS Fully Digital Reconfigurable Transmitter Front-End for Class-E PA based on Baseband PWM
• A 40-nm CMOS Fully Digital Reconfigurable Transmitter with Class-D Pas using Baseband and RF PWM
• Conclusions and Future Work.