High Efficiency Power Amplifier Design for 28 Ghz 5g Transmitters

本書介紹了在22nm FDSOI CMOS中設計專為5G應用於28 GHz的功率放大器，並呈現了4種最先進的功率放大器設計。作者討論了功率放大器的性能指標、設計取捨，並呈現了利用效率增強技術的不同功率放大器類別在28 GHz的應用。本書從理論、模擬、佈局到最終的測量結果，呈現了設計過程。

Nourhan Elsayed received her PhD Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2020, Khalifa University. She received her BSc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 2014 from Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. She then received her MSc. in Electrical Engineering from The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE in 2016. Nourhan's research work is in RF circuit design, specifically high efficiency transmitter design for 5G applications. She has been working on multiple mm-wave designs in 22nm FDSOI including switching amplifiers and efficiency enhancement techniques.

Hani Saleh (SM'16) is an assistant professor of electronic engineering at Khalifa University since Jan, 2012. He is an active member in KSRC (Khalifa University Research Center) where he leads a project for the development of wearable blood glucose monitor SOC and a mobile surveillance SOC and safe exercise monitoring device. Hani published 81 articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences, he has 11 issued US patents and 3 pending patent applications. Hani has a total of 19 years of industrial experience in ASIC chip design, microprocessor design, DSP core design, graphics core design and embedded system design. His experience spans DSP core design, microprocessor peripherals design, microprocessors and graphics core deign. Prior to joining Khalifa University he worked as a Senior Chip Designer (Technical Lead) at Apple incorporation; where he worked on the design and implementation of Apple next generation graphics cores for its mobile products (iPad, iPhone, ...etc.), prior to joining Apple, he worked for several leading semiconductor companies including Intel (ATOM mobile microprocessor design), AMD (Bobcat mobile microprocessor design), Qualcomm (QDSP DSP core design for mobile SOC's), Synopsys (a key member of Synopsys turnkey design group where he taped out many ASICs and designed the I2C DW IP included in Synopys DesignWare library), Fujitsu (SPARC compatible high performance microprocessor design) and Motorola Australia (M210 low power microprocessor synthesizable core design).

Baker Mohammad (M'04-SM'13) received the B.S. degree from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, the M.S. degree from Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA, in 2008, all in electricaland computer engineering. He was a Senior Staff Engineer and the Manager with Qualcomm, Austin, where he was involved in designing high performance and low power DSP processor used for communication and multimedia application. He was involved in a wide range of microprocessors design with Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, from high performance, server chips >100 W (IA-64), to mobile embedded processor low power sub-1 W (xscale). He has over 16 years of industrial experience in microprocessor design with an emphasis on memory, low power circuit, and physical design. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Electronic Engineering with the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and a Consultant with Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA, USA. In addition, he is involved in microwatt range computing platform for WSN focusing on energy harvesting and power management, including efficient dc/dc and ac/dc converters. He holds ten issued U.S. patents and has several pending patent applications. He has authored one book entitled Embedded Memory Design for Multi-Core and SoC and co-authored several publications in digital system design, memory design and testing, energy harvesting, power management, and power conversion, in addition to emerging memory technology modeling and design. His current research interests include power efficient computing, high yield embedded memory, and emerging technology, such as memristor, STTRAM, and computer architecture. Dr. Mohammad has served the IEEE in many editorial and administrative capacities. He is a member of the Technical Program Committee of several IEEE conferences, such as the International Conference on Computer Design, the International Conference on Environmental and Computer Science, and the VLSI-SoC Conference. He is a Regular Reviewer of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON VLSI SYSTEMS and the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON DESIGN AUTOMATION OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS. He is an Active Member of region eight student activities, including the Student Best Paper Competition, the UAE Chapter Student Day, and the KUSTAR Student Branch Advisor.

Dr. Mihai Sanduleanu received his MSc, MEE and PhD degrees from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania; Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands; and the University of Twente, The Netherlands; in 1990, 1993 and 1999, respectively. He received the Philips Foundation MSc and PhD Fellowship in 1993 and 1994 respectively.

From 1999 to 2000, Dr. Sanduleanu was with Philips Semiconductors, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and he worked on fiber optic communication circuits. He then moved to Philips Research Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and was involved in fiber optic interface circuits, radio frequency (RF) interconnected chip (IC) design, mm-waves transceiver design and ultra-low power radios (2000-2007). While at Philips Research, Dr. Sanduleanu was Adjunct Professor in the Microelectronics group of Eindhoven University of Technology. In 2008, he spent six months at Inter-university Microelectronics Center (IMEC), Leuven, Belgium, conducting research on 60GHz transceiver design and THz electronics. From 2008 to 2013, he conducted research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, in mm-wave transceivers for communication, imaging and radar, high-speed analog-to-digital converters for wired/wireless communication systems and ultra-low power radios.

Dr. Sanduleanu is currently an Associate Professor at Khalifa University. His areas of expertise include wireless transceiver design for RF/mm-waves/THz communication, THz electronics, high speed communication circuits for serial input and output, high speed analog-to-digital converters, phased-array systems, imaging, fiber optic interface IC, ultra-low power radios, data and clock recovery and phase locked loop (PLL), high accuracy/low-power analog/mixed-signal circuits and systems, system on chip (SoC) design, on-chip sensors and actuators for autonomous transceivers (wired/wireless), high-speed digital circuits and systems, electromagnetics, and antenna design.

Dr. Sanduleanu has authored/co-authored four books and more than 80 papers in international conferences and journals. He also holds 51 granted US patents. Dr. Sanduleanu served as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems and he serves in the Editorial Board of the Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing Journal.

Mohammed Ismail (S'80-M'82-SM'84-F'97) spent over 25 years in academia and industry in the U.S. and Europe. He served as a Faculty Member with the Ohio State University's (OSU) ElectroScience Laboratory, Columbus, OH, USA. He was a Research Chair with the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, where he founded the Radio and Mixed Signal Integrated Systems Research Group. He held visiting appointments with Aalto University, Espoo, Finland, the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway, the University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway, Twente University, Enschede, The Netherlands, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He joined the Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, in 2011, where he holds the ATIC Professor Chair and is the Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, which exists on both campuses in Sharjah and Abu Dhabi. He advised the work of over 50 Ph.D. degree students and over 100 M.S. degree students. He has served as a Corporate Consultant to over 30 companies and is the Co-Founder of Micrys Inc., Columbus, Spirea AB, Stockholm, Firstpass Technologies Inc., Dublin, OH, USA, and ANACAD (currently part of Mentor Graphics), Cairo, Egypt. He is currently a prolific author and an entrepreneur in chip design and test. He is the Founder of the OSU's Analog VLSI Laboratory, one of the foremost research entities in the field of analog, mixed signal, and RF integrated circuits. He serves as the Director of KSRC and the Co-Director of the ATIC-SRC Center of Excellence on Energy Efficient Electronic Systems targeting self-powered chip sets for wireless sensing and monitoring, biochips, and power management solutions. He has authored or co-authored over 20 books and over 150 journal publications and holds eight U.S. patents issued and several pending. His current research interests include self-healing design techniques for CMOS RF and millimeter wave ICs in deep nanometer nodes. Prof. Ismail received the U.S. Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Ohio State Lumley Research Award four times in 1992, 1997, 2002, and 2007, and the U.S. Semiconductor Research Corporations Inventor Recognition Award twice. He is the Founding Editor of the Journal of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing (Springer) and serves as the Journals Editor-in-Chief. He has served the IEEE in many editorial and administrative capacities. He is the Founder of the IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits and Systems and the Flagship Region 8 Conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

Nourhan Elsayed於2020年在哈利法大學獲得電氣與電腦工程博士學位。她於2014年從哈利法大學獲得電氣與電子工程學士學位，並於2016年從阿布達比的石油學院獲得電氣工程碩士學位。Nourhan的研究工作主要集中在射頻電路設計，特別是5G應用的高效率發射機設計。她一直在22nm FDSOI上進行多個毫米波設計，包括開關放大器和效率增強技術。

Hani Saleh（SM'16）自2012年1月起擔任哈利法大學電子工程助理教授。他是KSRC（哈利法大學研究中心）的活躍成員，領導一個項目開發可穿戴式血糖監測SOC、移動監控SOC和安全運動監測設備。Hani在同行評審的期刊和會議上發表了81篇文章，擁有11項已獲得的美國專利和3項待審專利申請。Hani在ASIC芯片設計、微處理器設計、DSP核心設計、圖形核心設計和嵌入式系統設計方面擁有19年的工業經驗。他的經驗涵蓋了DSP核心設計、微處理器外設設計、微處理器和圖形核心設計。在加入哈利法大學之前，他曾在蘋果公司擔任高級芯片設計師（技術負責人），負責設計和實施蘋果下一代移動產品（iPad、iPhone等）的圖形核心。在加入蘋果之前，他曾在多家領先的半導體公司工作，包括英特爾（ATOM移動微處理器設計）、AMD（Bobcat移動微處理器設計）、高通（用於移動SOC的QDSP DSP核心設計）、Synopsys（Synopsys全套設計組的重要成員，在該組中完成了多個ASIC的設計並設計了包含在Synopys DesignWare庫中的I2C DW IP）、富士通（SPARC兼容高性能微處理器設計）和Motorola Australia（M210低功耗微處理器可合成核心設計）。

Baker Mohammad（M'04-SM'13）於2008年在美國新墨西哥大學獲得學士學位，並在美國亞利桑那州立大學和德克薩斯大學奧斯汀分校分別於2008年和2008年獲得碩士和博士學位，專業為電氣與電腦工程。他曾在奎爾科姆（Qualcomm）擔任高級工程師和經理，參與設計用於通信和多媒體應用的高性能低功耗DSP處理器。他曾參與英特爾公司的各種微處理器設計，從高性能的服務器芯片（IA-64）到低功耗的移動嵌入式處理器（xscale）。他在微處理器設計方面擁有超過16年的工業經驗，專注於記憶體、低功耗電路和物理設計。他目前是哈利法大學科技與研究學院的電子工程助理教授，也是高通公司的顧問。此外，他還參與了微瓦級範圍的無線感測網絡計算平台，專注於能量收集和電源管理，包括高效的直流/直流和交流/直流轉換器。他擁有十項已獲得的美國專利並有多項待審專利申請。他撰寫了一本名為《多核和SoC的嵌入式記憶體設計》的書籍，並合著了幾篇關於數字系統設計、記憶體設計和測試、能量收集、電源管理和電源轉換的文章，以及新興記憶體技術建模和設計。他目前的研究興趣包括節能計算、高產量嵌入式記憶體和新興技術，如記憶電阻器、STTRAM和計算機架構。Mohammad博士在IEEE的許多編輯和行政職務中擔任過職位。