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Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Published in: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering 10/2021

23-01-2021 | Research Article-Electrical Engineering

A 2 mA PA Driver Capable of Handling 1μF Load Capacitance with a Three-Stage Class-AB Rail-To-Rail Amplifier

Authors: Honglin Xu, Junjie Wu, Haitao Liu

Published in: Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering | Issue 10/2021

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Abstract

In this paper, a three-stage rail-to-rail class-AB amplifier for GaAs/GaN PA driver in radar transmitter components is achieved using a proposed frequency compensation scheme in 0.35 μm CMOS technology. Meanwhile, a negative voltage reference is proposed with low un-trimmed spread by employing level shift technique. The PA driver capable of handling load capacitance ranging from no load to 1uF only consumes 2 mA of quiescent current while delivering a peak current of 100 mA to the load with −90 dB THD. The core area occupies 2.4mm2.
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Metadata
Title
A 2 mA PA Driver Capable of Handling 1μF Load Capacitance with a Three-Stage Class-AB Rail-To-Rail Amplifier
Authors
Honglin Xu
Junjie Wu
Haitao Liu
Publication date
23-01-2021
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering / Issue 10/2021
Print ISSN: 2193-567X
Electronic ISSN: 2191-4281
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13369-021-05350-y

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