A Wideband Two-Way Digital Doherty Transmitter in 40nm CMOS

A 40nm CMOS wideband digital Cartesian push-pull inverted Doherty operating in class-E is presented. Wideband Doherty operation is achieved over a 1.9-to-3GHz frequency band, using an off-chip power combining network. The fully digital transmitter (DTX) provides 25.3dBm peak power with a drain/DTX line-up efficiency (DE/SE) of 58.7%/44.9%, respectively, at 2.4GHz. When operated with a 160MHz 256-QAM OFDM signal, it achieves 46.1%/32.7% average DE/SE, with an ACLR and EVM better than −40.6dBc and −33.9dB, respectively, using a simple memory-less digital pre-distortion (DPD).