@inproceedings{a4dd9a6cce7b4ac4aeb0a216a008403a,
title = "CMOS power drivers for digital transmitters: Challenges and architectures",
abstract = "This paper presents two CMOS power drivers for interfacing low-voltage CMOS processing circuits to off-chip GaN switched-mode power amplifiers. The drivers employ stacked transistor configurations in a 45nm CMOS SOI technology to achieve 5V output voltage swing from 50MHz to 2GHz switching frequencies, with 20% to 80% pulse width dynamic range. The two driver architectures are compared with respect to design complexity, transient performance, silicon area, and power dissipation. Additionally, this work analyzes the implementation challenges and performance limitations when driving off-chip power devices using integrated silicon drivers.",
keywords = "CMOS, Digital transmitter, Gan, High voltage, Power amplifier, Power driver, Switched mode",
author = "Soroush Moallemi and Kevin Grout and Jennifer Kitchen",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported by DARPA #D16AP00094. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 IEEE.; 2019 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS 2019 ; Conference date: 20-01-2019 Through 23-01-2019",
year = "2019",
month = may,
day = "14",
doi = "10.1109/RWS.2019.8714222",
language = "English (US)",
series = "IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
booktitle = "2019 IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium, RWS 2019",
}