Title
A 40nm bulk CMOS line driver for broadband communication.
Abstract
A 40nm CMOS line driver operating from a 5.4V supply is presented. The driver can output a 7.7V peak to peak output signal in a 50 Omega load. For high supply voltage compliance, transistor stacking and dynamic bias is being used. A line driver prototype PCB is assembled and characterized. A gain up to 19dB is measured over a 730MHz bandwidth. A OP1dB of 14dBm & P-SAT of 21.7dBm is measured in 50 Omega. During OFDM tests with a 15dB PAPR signal, a peak SNDR of 41dB is measured.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2016
Proceedings of the European Solid-State Circuits Conference
CMOS,line driver,stacking,dynamic bias
Field
DocType
ISSN
Computer science,Voltage,Impedance matching,Electronic engineering,CMOS,Line driver,Bandwidth (signal processing),Transistor,Electrical engineering,Orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing,Stacking
Conference
1930-8833
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.43
1
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jan Cools110.77
Patrick Reynaert246376.50