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A digitally intensive transmitter/PA using RF-PWM with carrier switching in 130 nm CMOS

Cho et al., 2016

Document ID
14497479891220061487
Author
Cho K
Gharpurey R
Publication year
Publication venue
IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits

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A digitally intensive transmitter using RF pulsewidth-modulation (PWM) with a class-D power amplifier (PA) is described. The use of carrier switching for alleviating the dynamic range limitation that can be observed in classical RF-PWM implementations is introduced. The …
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