A case for digital beamforming at mmWave

S Dutta, CN Barati, D Ramirez… - IEEE Transactions …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the heavy reliance of millimeter-wave (mmWave) wireless systems on directional
links, beamforming (BF) with high-dimensional arrays is essential for cellular systems in …

A wideband energy-efficient multi-mode CMOS digital transmitter

M Beikmirza, Y Shen, LCN de Vreede… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a wideband, energy-efficient digital transmitter (DTX) suitable for multi-
mode/multi-band wireless communication applications. It features various operation modes …

A fully-integrated wideband digital polar transmitter with 11-bit digital-to-phase converter in 40nm CMOS

C Hu, Y Yin, T Li, Y Liu, L Xiong… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents a wideband digital polar transmitter (DPTX) with an integrated capacitor-
digital-to-analog converter (C-DAC)-based digital-to-phase converter (DPC). A normalized …

A wideband four-way Doherty bits-in RF-out CMOS transmitter

M Beikmirza, Y Shen, LCN de Vreede… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
We present a wideband, 12-bit four-way Doherty Cartesian digital transmitter (DTX) featuring
an innovative 50%-LO signed interleaved up-conversion technique that enables close to …

A wideband IQ-mapping direct-digital RF modulator for 5G transmitters

Y Shen, R Bootsman, MS Alavi… - IEEE Journal of Solid …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a wideband-bit direct-digital RF modulator (DDRM) operating in a 0.5-to-
3-GHz band for 5G transmitters. The proposed digital Cartesian modulator features an …

The Efficiency and Power Utilization of Current-Scaling Digital Transmitters

DPN Mul, RJ Bootsman, M Beikmirza… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The RF performance of current-scaling digital transmitters (DTX) with polar, unsigned
Cartesian, signed Cartesian, and multiphase architectures have been compared regarding …

A time-approximation filter for direct RF transmitter

S Su, MSW Chen - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a highly programmable time-approximation filter (TAF) that can be
embedded in a direct RF transmitter architecture. The proposed filter technique …

A Predistortion-Less Digital MIMO Transmitter With DTC-Based Quadrature Imbalance Compensation

J Zanen, E Klumperink, B Nauta - IEEE journal of solid-state …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A four-element multi-input multi-output (MIMO) switched capacitor power amplifier (SCPA) in
22-nm fully depleted silicon-on-insulator (FD-SOI) is presented as a software-defined radio …

A low-complexity digital predistortion technique for digital I/Q transmitters

M Beikmirza, LCN De Vreede… - 2023 IEEE/MTT-S …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an advanced yet simple digital pre-distortion (DPD) technique for digital
I/Q transmitters (DTXs). Exploiting the I/Q orthogonality, an effective 2× 1-D DPD procedure …

SAW-less direct RF transmitter with multimode noise shaping and tri-level time-approximation filter

S Su, MSW Chen - IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This article presents a multimode direct radio frequency (RF) transmitter capable of a high in-
band dynamic range and a low out-of-band (OOB) noise floor. It features a hybrid digital-to …