Performance of sense amplifier has considerable impact on the speed of caches used in microprocessors. The small difference in voltage level of bit lines of memory cell is amplified by sense amplifier. voltage mode sense amplifier reduces the power dissipation during read and increases the speed also. This paper describes voltage mode sense amplifier and current mode sense amplifier and compare...

The objective of this research was to design a 2.4 GHz class AB Power Amplifier (PA), with 0.18um Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) CMOS technology by using Cadence software, for health care applications. The ultimate goal for such application is to minimize the trade-offs between performance and cost, and between performance and low power consumption design. This pap...

In this review article, a stage-convertible RF power amplifier designed with a 0.18-m RF CMOS process is described. A method to implement a low-power matching network is an essential technology for the stage-convertible power amplifier. Various low-power matching networks with distributed active transformers as an output power combiner are compared in terms of the amounts of undesired coupling...

Radio Frequency Power Amplifier (RFPA) amplifies the communication signals to the required power level for transmission. It is the most power consuming stage in a transceiver chain; consequently, any improvement in terms of dissipated power and efficiency of the power amplifier affects the overall power budget of the transmitter. Also, efficient performance of the RF power amplifier over extend...

-In many digital Very Large Scale Integration design, clock system is one of the most power consumption component. It consumes 30% to 60% of the total system power. As we are in need to reduce the power consumption on portable digital circuit because power budget is severely limited on portable digital circuit. To achieve this requirement, a clock system employing two techniques such as Dual Ed...

This paper presents the design of a high efficiency, low THD, 5.7GHz fully differential power amplifier for wireless communications in a standard 0.18μm CMOS technology. The power amplifier employs a fully differential class-E topology to achieve high power efficiency by exploiting its soft-switching property. In order to achieve high operating frequency, an injectionlocked oscillator is utiliz...

Abstract This paper presents a high-power inverted Doherty power amplifier for broader operational bandwidth. After analyzing two operation modes according to the load modulation of the Doherty power amplifier, the inverted Doherty structure was selected. In the design, the load impedances for optimum broadband characteristics at both the back-off and peak power levels. The Doherty power amplif...

In today's high-speed wireless communication applications, the simultaneous demand for bandwidth-efficient modulation schemes such as M-QAM and high power-efficiency of electronic components in the system imposes a contradicting tradeoff. On one hand, with the RF power amplifier (PA) at the transmitter antenna being the major power "hungry" block in many such systems, high power-efficiency for ...

This application report presents a simple power tracking technique for efficiency enhancement in CDMA RF power amplifiers. This technique involves the use of a linear-in-dB RF power detector and a DC-DC converter switch. This enhancement scheme switches the DC supply voltage, VCC, of an RF power amplifier into two different levels through a DC-DC converter. Texas Instruments RF power detector L...