A 2-stage cascode structure power amplifier(PA) with SiGe BiCMOS technology is proposed.The first stage is a differential common-source amplifier
which is used to amplify the signal from the input matching
meanwhile
it can suppress noise. And the second stage is a BiFET cascade amplifier which is used as main power amplifier to improve the linearity. The proposed PA is designed with Jazzs 0.18 m SiGe BiCMOS technology
The simulation results with Spectre RF show that the PA achieved a Gain of 32 dB
a P1dB of 29 dBm. Within the operating frequency rage of 2.3~2.7 GHz
the PA has an S11 and S22 below -10 dB
and the peak PAE is 22.1%.
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