SHI Zitao, CHENG Yuhua, WANG Albert, et al., “An ESD-Aware 2.4 GHz PA Design for WLAN Application,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 389-394, 2012,
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SHI Zitao, CHENG Yuhua, WANG Albert, et al., “An ESD-Aware 2.4 GHz PA Design for WLAN Application,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 389-394, 2012,
SHI Zitao, CHENG Yuhua, WANG Albert, et al., “An ESD-Aware 2.4 GHz PA Design for WLAN Application,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 389-394, 2012,
Citation:
SHI Zitao, CHENG Yuhua, WANG Albert, et al., “An ESD-Aware 2.4 GHz PA Design for WLAN Application,” Chinese Journal of Electronics, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 389-394, 2012,
Electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection has become an emerging challenge for Radio frequency (RF) Integrated circuits (IC). This paper reports the design and optimization of an ESD-aware 2.4GHz Power amplifier (PA) circuit in a 0.18μm RFCMOS technology. A mixed-mode ESD simulation-design method and an RF ESD characterization technique are used to accurately characterize and minimize ESD-induced parasitic effects. Significant improvement can be observed by applying this ESD-aware design technique in several areas, such as gain, linearity, and power-added efficiency.
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