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Message started by andrew_wee on May 12^th, 2009, 8:08pm

Title: Reference materials for PA
Post by andrew_wee on May 12^th, 2009, 8:08pm

Does anyone has reference materials for the design of PA?And a manual for the design of PA using Spectre is very helpful.But this kind of materials is so few that i can't find one.
Who has it?Please help me......

Title: Re: Reference materials for PA
Post by pancho_hideboo on May 12^th, 2009, 8:49pm

See following although I don't know whether these are useful.

[RF Workshop Tutorials]
The RF Workshop Tutorials show how to simulate typical RF circuits such as LNAs, Mixers, VCOs, and PAs in spectreRF. Note that the database is in cdba (not oa, open access). The RF Workshop HB Tutorials show similar simulations using the new HB, HBAC, and HBNoise analyses available in MMSIM 7.1.
See rfworkshop_hb.tar.gz and rfworkshop.tar.gz

http://www.cadence.com/Community/blogs/rf/archive/2009/02/09/shhhhh-spectrerf-tutorials-and-appnotes-one-of-our-best-kept-secrets.aspx?postID=13917

Even if your MMSIM version is old, you can find "rfworkshop.tar.gz".

Title: Re: Reference materials for PA
Post by andrew_wee on May 12^th, 2009, 11:57pm

Thank you, pancho! I have that material and it just gives a PA symbol,i need the details of the circuit and moreover the details of the design.

Title: Re: Reference materials for PA
Post by pancho_hideboo on May 13^th, 2009, 9:10am

andrew_wee wrote on May 12^th, 2009, 11:57pm:

I have that material and it just gives a PA symbol

There is no transistor level circuit included ?

andrew_wee wrote on May 12^th, 2009, 11:57pm:

i need the details of the circuit and moreover the details of the design.

What type of PA do you have interest in ?
Class-A, B, AB, C, D, E, F, S
Single-Ended or Differential

Title: Re: Reference materials for PA
Post by andrew_wee on May 13^th, 2009, 11:05pm

Thank you for replying.
RF CMOS PA is what i need.
The PA should meet some linearity requirement.
So Class-A, AB are both OK.
Mover, Single-Ended and Differential are both OK.
May i can download some materials form some places,but where?