An on-chip temperature compensation circuit for an InGaP/GaAs HBT RF power amplifier

A new on-chip temperature compensation circuit for a GaAs-based HBT RF amplifier applied to wireless communication is presented.The simple compensation circuit is composed of one GaAs HBT and five resistors with various values,which allow the power amplifier to achieve better thermal characteristics with a little degradation in performance.It effectively compensates for the temperature variation of the gain and the output power of the power amplifier by regulating the base quiescent bias current.The temperature compensation circuit is applied to a 3-stage integrated power amplifier for wireless communication applications,which results in an improvement in the gain variation from 4.0 to 1.1 dB in the temperature range between -20 and +80℃.     

一种偏置电流可控的2.4GHz SiGe HBT功率放大器设计

A 2.4-GHz SiGe HBT power amplifier （PA） with a novel bias current controlling circuit has been realized in IBM 0.35-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology, BiCMOS5PAe. The bias circuit switches the quiescent current to make the PA operate in a high or low power mode. Under a single supply voltage of ＋3.5 V, the two-stage mode-switchable power amplifier provides a PAE improvement up to 56.7% and 19.2% at an output power of 0 and 20 dBm, respec- tively, with a reduced quiescent current in the low power mode as compared to only operating the PA in the high power mode. The die size is only 1.32×1.37mm^2.     

A process/temperature variation tolerant RSSI

A low power process/temperature variation tolerant CMOS received signal strength indicator (RSSI) and limiter amplifier are designed using SMIC 0.13μm CMOS technology. The limiter uses six-stage amplifier architecture for minimum power consideration. The RSSI has a dynamic range more than 60dB, and the RSSI linearity error is within ±0.5dB for an input power from -65dBm to -8dBm. The RSSI output voltage is from 0.15V to 1V and the slope of the curve is 14.17mV/dB. Furthermore, with the compensation circuit, the proposed RSSI shows good temperature-independent and good robustness against process variation characteristics. The RSSI with integrated AGC loop draws 1.5mA (I and Q paths) from a 1.2V single supply.     

A wideband RF amplifier for satellite tuners

This paper presents the design and measured performance of a wideband amplifier for a direct conversion satellite tuner.It is composed of a wideband low noise amplifier(LNA) and a two-stage RF variable gain amplifier(VGA) with linear gain in dB and temperature compensation schemes.To meet the system linearity requirement, an improved distortion compensation technique and a bypass mode are applied on the LNA to deal with the large input signal.Wideband matching is achieved by resistive feedback and an off-chip LC-ladder matching network.A large gain control range(over 80 dB) is achieved by the VGA with process voltage and temperature compensation and dB linearization.In total,the amplifier consumes up to 26 mA current from a 3.3 V power supply. It is fabricated in a 0.35-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology and occupies a silicon area of 0.25 mm~2.     

A novel reconfigurable variable gain amplifier for a multi-mode multi-band receiver

This paper presents a novel approach for designing a reconfigurable variable gain amplifier(VGA) for the multi-mode multi-band receiver system RF front-end applications.The configuration,which is comprised of gain circuits,control circuit,DC offset cancellation circuit and mode switch circuit is proposed to save die area and power consumption with the function of multi-mode and multi-band through reusing.The VGA is realized in 0.18μm CMOS technology with 1.8 V power supply voltage providing a gain tuning...     

Design and Development of New Digital Thermostat

The designed thermostat is based on the microcontroller featuring intelligence, programmable, environmental protection and power saving. The thermostat design is mainly composed of hardware and software design, the hardware includes the power supply circuit, temperature measurement circuit, humidity measurement circuit and backlight circuit; while the software design includes temperature measurement and compensation algorithm, moreover software flowchart is given as well. Finally the power supply circuit is simulated by the software of Pspice and the creative power stealing mode is verified by the simulation results. A target board is stuffed by hand with Pb-free electronic components and used to test hardware and debug software. Since the Pb-free components were used, power stealing mode is designed in hardware and temperature compensation algorithm is accomplished in software, and the thermostat is outstanding with its features of ＂green＂ and ＂power saving＂.     

闭环曲率补偿的低电源电压带隙基准源

A new low-voltage CMOS bandgap reference （BGR） that achieves high temperature stability is proposed. It feeds back the output voltage to the curvature compensation circuit that constitutes a closed loop circuit to cancel the logarithmic term of voltage VBE. Meanwhile a low voltage amplifier with the 0.5 μm low threshold technology is designed for the BGR. A high temperature stability BGR circuit is fabricated in the CSMC 0.5μm CMOS technology. The measured result shows that the BGR can operate down to 1 V, while the temperature coefficient and line regulation are only 9 ppm/℃ and 1.2 mV/V, respectively.     

X 波段氮化镓合成固态放大器

Based on a self-developed A1GaN/GaN HEMT with 2.5 mm gate width technology on a SiC substrate, an X-band GaN combined solid-state power amplifier module is fabricated. The module consists of an AIGaN/GaN HEMT, Wilkinson power couplers, DC-bias circuit and microstrip line. For each amplifier, we use a bipolar DC power source. Special RC networks at the input and output and a resistor between the DC power source and the gate of the transistor at the input are used for cancellation of self-oscillation and crosstalk of low-frequency of each amplifier. At the same time, branches of length 3λ/4 for Wilkinson power couplers are designed for the elimination of self-oscillation of the two amplifiers. Microstrip stub lines are used for input matching and output matching. Under Vds = 27 V, Vgs = -4.0 V, CW operating conditions at 8 GHz, the amplifier module exhibits a line gain of 5.6 dB with power added efficiency of 23.4%, and output power of 41.46 dBm （14 W）, and the power gain compression is 3 dB. Between 8 and 8.5 GHz, the variation of output power is less than 1.5 dB.     

采用金属耦合电容实现级间匹配的射频功率放大器

One challenge of the implementation of fully-integrated RF power amplifiers into a deep submicro digital CMOS process is that no capacitor is available,especially no high density capacitor.To address this problem,a two-stage class-AB power amplifier with inter-stage matching realized by an inter-metal coupling capacitor is designed in a 180-nm digital CMOS process.This paper compares three structures of inter-metal coupling capacitors with metal-insulator-metal（MIM） capacitor regarding their capacitor density.Detailed simulations are carried out for the leakage,the voltage dependency,the temperature dependency,and the quality factor between an inter-metal shuffled（IMS） capacitor and an MIM capacitor.Finally,an IMS capacitor is chosen to perform the inter-stage matching.The techniques are validated via the design and implement of a two-stage class-AB RF power amplifier for an UHF RFID application.The PA occupies 370 × 200 μm^2 without pads in the 180-nm digital CMOS process and outputs 21.1 dBm with 40% drain efficiency and 28.1 dB power gain at 915 MHz from a single 3.3 V power supply.     

97dB动态范围、带温度补偿的MEMS电容传感器读出电路

This paper presents a charge-sensitive-amplifier(CSA)based readout circuit for capacitive microelectro-mechanical-system(MEMS)sensors.A continuous-time(CT)readout structure using the chopper technique is adopted to cancel the low frequency noise and improve the resolution of the readout circuits.An operational trans-conductance amplifier(OTA)structure with an auxiliary common-mode-feedback-OTA is proposed in the fully differential CSA to suppress the chopper modulation induced disturbance at the OTA input terminal.An analog temperature compensation method is proposed,which adjusts the chopper signal amplitude with temperature variation to compensate the temperature drift of the CSA readout sensitivity.The chip is designed and implemented in a 0.35 m CMOS process and is 2.1 2.1 mm2in area.The measurement shows that the readout circuitachieves0.9aF/√Hz capacitive resolution,97dBd ynamic range in 100Hz signal bandwidth,and 0.8mV/fF sensitivity with a temperature drift of 35 ppm/℃ after optimized compensation.     

InGaP/GaAs HBT射频功率放大器在片温度补偿电路研究

本文针对无线通信应用的InGaP/GaAs HBT射频功率放大器,提出一种新型的在片温度补偿电路。该温度补偿电路由一个GaAs HBT和五个阻值大小不同的电阻组成,结构简单,可实现性强。通过调整偏置电路中参考电压的方法调节功率放大器静态偏置电流,有效地实现补偿功率放大器功率增益和输出功率随温度变化的特性,优化了射频功率放大器的热特性,性能随温度只有略微的退化。将该温度补偿电路置入一个无线通信应用的三级单片集成功率放大器,温度在-20℃到＋80℃范围内变化时,增益随温度变化的变化量从4.3dB提高到只有1.1dB。     

用于W-LAN的5.8GHz InGaP/GaAs HBT MMIC线性功率放大器

介绍了一种应用于W-LAN系统的5.8 GHz InGaP/GaAs HBT MMIC功率放大器。该功率放大器采用了自适应线性化偏置电路来改善线性度和效率,同时偏置电路中的温度补偿电路可以抑制直流工作点随温度的变化,采用RC稳定网络使放大器在较宽频带内具有绝对稳定性。在单独供电3.6 V电压情况下,功率放大器的增益为26 dB,1 dB压缩点处输出功率为26.4 dBm,功率附加效率(PAE)为25%。三阶交调系数(IMD3)在输出功率为26.4 dBm时为-19 dBc,输出功率为20 dBm时低于-38 dBc,在1 dB压缩点处偏移频率为20 MHz时邻道功率比(ACPR)值为-31 dBc。     

基于SiGe工艺的高增益射频功率放大器

基于0.13μm SiGe HBT工艺,设计应用于无线局域网(WLAN)802.11b/g频段范围内的高增益射频功率放大器.该功放工作在AB类,由三级放大电路级联构成,并带有温度补偿和线性化的偏置电路.仿真结果显示:功率增益高达30dB,1dB压缩点输出功率为24dBm,电路的S参数S11在1.5～4GHz大的频率范围内均小于-17dB,S21大于30dB,输出匹配S22小于-10dB,S12小于-90dB.最高效率可达42.7%,1dB压缩点效率为37%.     

面向DSRC的5.8GHz射频功率放大器仿真设计

基于winHBT工艺,利用ADS软件实现了用于DSRC系统5.8GHzRFPA的仿真设计,电路采用自适应线性化偏置电路,为核心电路提供了补偿电流和补偿电压。根据二端口网络S参数和Loadpull技术完成了功率放大器的匹配网络设计。最后在Cadence环境下完成了功放的版图设计。     

一种优异温度稳定性Ka波段上变频放大模块

研究了Ka波段变频放大电路的设计及其温度补偿技术,分析了上变频放大模块的基本原理,分别对射频增益及检波电压进行了温度补偿,提出了一种优异温度稳定性、高线性度、高增益稳定性的总体设计方案。该变频放大模块由放大电路、温补电路、混频电路、滤波电路及功率放大器等单元电路组成。运用Agilent ADS软件完成了模块的整体电路设计。同时,介绍了一种基于场仿真软件和实测相结合的方法,建立毫米波多芯片组件中互连的键合线模型,将键合线的寄生电感融入了上变频放大模块电路设计中,显著提高键合线互连电路的频率响应。采用多芯片组装工艺制作了高性能的变频放大模块,实现了在Ka波段输出功率＞于30.6 dBm,全温范围功率波动＜0.8 dB,全温检波电压指示波动＜0.2 V,测试结果与仿真结果一致。     

带温度补偿的Ka波段CMOS堆叠功率放大器设计

介绍了一款基于55 nm CMOS工艺,带温度补偿电路的Ka波段堆叠高效功率放大器（power amplifier,PA）.采用了一种新型的针对晶体管堆叠结构的温度补偿电路,该补偿电路由两个二极管和四个电阻组成,结构简单,易于实现.通过调整堆叠放大器各个栅极偏置电路中的电压,使得PA随温度变化的增益和输出功率得到有效补偿,增强了电路的可靠性和热稳定性.基于Agilent ADS软件的版图仿真结果显示:电路的最大输出功率为20.1 dBm,频带内功率附加效率（power additional efficiency,PAE）为20%~30%,大信号功率-1 dB带宽为15 GHz（46%）.在-40℃到125℃的温度范围内,采用新型温补偏置电路与传统偏置电路相比,小信号增益的温度波动从2.2 dB改善到0.1 dB,显著提高了功放的热稳定性,证明了所提出的温度补偿电路对于在宽温度范围内校正功率放大器增益变化的有效性.     

InGaP/GaAs HBT X波段混合集成功率合成放大器的研制

研制了面向X波段应用的InGaP/GaAs HBT混合集成功率合成放大器模块. 电路采用一种新颖的具有片上RC稳定网络的InGaP/GaAs HBT功率管作为功率合成单元以提高电路的稳定性,并采用紧凑的微带线并联匹配网络进行功率分配和合成. 在8.1GHz,偏置为Vcc=7V, Ic=230mA的AB类工作条件下,连续波最大输出功率为28.9dBm,功率合成效率达到80%.     

5W ISM波段InGaP/GaAs HBT功率放大器MMIC

通过分析InGaP/GsAsHBT器件的热学和电学特点,结合HBT大功率放大器芯片在技术性能、稳定性、可靠性及尺寸等方面的要求,通过优化设计HBT功率器件单元和匹配电路,开发了一个大功率、高效率、小尺寸的ISM波段功率放大器单片集成电路。该三级放大器的各级器件单元的发射极面积分别为320μm2,1280μm2,5760μm2,芯片内部包括了输入、输出50Ω匹配电路,面积仅为1.9mm×2.1mm。放大器采用5V单电源供电,在2.4～2.5GHz频率范围内线性增益为27dB,2dB增益压缩点输出饱和功率达到37dBm,功率附加效率为46%。     

低压CMOS带隙电压基准源设计

在对传统典型CMOS带隙电压基准源电路分析和总结的基础上,综合一级温度补偿、电流反馈技术,提出了一种1-ppm/°C低压CMOS带隙电压基准源。采用差分放大器作为基准源的负反馈运放,简化了电路设计。放大器输出用作电路中PMOS电流源偏置,提高了电源抑制比(PSRR)。整个电路采用TSMC0.35μmCMOS工艺实现,采用HSPICE进行仿真,仿真结果证明了基准源具有低温度系数和高电源抑制比。