Electronics Research Laboratory
Dept. of Microelectronics

Rob Bootsman

Publications

  1. 5.8 A 20W CMOS/LDMOS All-Digital Transmitter with Dynamic Retiming and Glitch-Free Phase Mapper, Achieving 68%/62% Peak Drain/System Efficiency
    Mul, Dieuwert Peter Nicolaas; Bootsman, Rob J; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; El Boustani, Ossama; Shen, Yiyu; Maassen, Daniel; van Velzen, Bart; Rousstia, Mohadig; Koster, Ronald; Gajadharsing, John R; Fritzsch, Thomas; Alavi, Morteza; De Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2025 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC),
    pp. 104-106, 2025. DOI: 10.1109/ISSCC49661.2025.10904650
    Keywords: ... Base stations;Frequency modulation;Transmitters;Switches;Logic gates;Solid state circuits;Wideband;Signal resolution;Power generation;Switching circuits.

  2. The Efficiency and Power Utilization of Current-Scaling Digital Transmitters
    Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Bootsman, Robert J.; Beikmirza, Mohammadreza; Alavi, Morteza S.; Vreede, Leo C. N. de;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 72, Issue 7, pp. 4350-4366, 2024. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2023.3336984
    Keywords: ... Switches;Radio frequency;Logic gates;Transmitters;Power generation;Loading;Power amplifiers;Current control;Peak to average power ratio;Current mode;current scaling;digital transmitter (DTX);Doherty;efficiency;multiphase;peak-to-average-power ratio (PAPR);polar;power utilization;RF-DAC;signed Cartesian (SC);upconversion.

  3. A Wideband Digital-Intensive Current-Mode Transmitter Line-Up
    Shen, Yiyu; Hoogelander, Martijn; Bootsman, Rob; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 58, Issue 9, pp. 2489-2500, 2023. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2023.3279235
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Linearity;Power amplifiers;Harmonic analysis;Energy efficiency;Power generation;Impedance;Common-gate (CG)/common-base (CB) power amplifier (PA);current division path;digital pre-distortion (DPD)-free;direct-digital RF modulator (DDRM);dynamic biasing;harmonic rejection (HR);IQ-mapping;quadrature up-converter;radio frequency digital-to-analog converter (RFDAC);TX line-up.

  4. High-Power Digital Transmitters for Wireless Infrastructure Applications (A Feasibility Study)
    Bootsman, Robert J.; Mul, Dieuwert P. N.; Shen, Yiyu; Hashemi, Mohsen; Heeres, Rob M.; van Rijs, Fred; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques,
    Volume 70, Issue 5, pp. 2835-2850, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2022.3153000
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;CMOS technology;Power generation;Logic gates;Transmitters;Threshold voltage;Switches;Class-E;CMOS;digital predistortion (DPD);digital transmitter (DTX);efficient;GaN;high-power RF;laterally-diffused MOS (LDMOS);mixing power digital-to-analog converter (DAC);polar.

  5. A Wideband IQ-Mapping Direct-Digital RF Modulator for 5G Transmitters
    Shen, Yiyu; Bootsman, Robert; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C. N.;
    IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits,
    Volume 57, Issue 5, pp. 1446-1456, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/JSSC.2022.3144362
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Modulation;Computer architecture;Power generation;Microprocessors;Delays;Clocks;Current-steering digital-to-analog converter (DAC);digital pre-distortion (DPD)-free;digital-intensive transmitter (DTX);direct-digital RF modulator (DDRM);I/Q image;IQ-mapping;mixing DAC;PA pre-driver;quadrature up-converter;radio-frequency digital-analog converter (RFDAC).

  6. A 39 W Fully Digital Wideband Inverted Doherty Transmitter
    Bootsman, Robert; Shen, Yiyu; Mul, Dieuwert; Rousstia, Mohadig; Heeres, Rob; van Rijs, Fred; Gajadharsing, John; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2022 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium - IMS 2022,
    pp. 979-982, 2022. DOI: 10.1109/IMS37962.2022.9865405
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Power demand;Three-dimensional displays;Transmitters;Power combiners;Power system harmonics;Harmonic analysis;digital transmitters;LDMOS;CMOS;inverted Doherty;wideband.

  7. Efficiency and Linearity of Digital "Class-C Like" Transmitters
    Mul, Dieuwert P.N.; Bootsman, Rob J.; Bruinsma, Quinten; Shen, Yiyu; Krause, Sebastian; Quay, Rüdiger; Pelk, Marco J.; van Rijs, Fred; Heeres, Rob M.; Pires, Sergio; Alavi, Morteza; de Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2020 50th European Microwave Conference (EuMC),
    pp. 1-4, 2021. DOI: 10.23919/EuMC48046.2021.9338122
    Keywords: ... Transmitters;Impedance matching;Power amplifiers;Linearity;Energy efficiency;Power generation;Next generation networking;Class-C;digital transmitter;efficiency;linearity;LDMOS;CMOS RFIC;polar transmitter;RFDAC;digital power amplifier.

  8. An 18.5 W Fully-Digital Transmitter with 60.4 % Peak System Efficiency
    Bootsman, R.J.; Mul, D.P.N.; Shen, Y.; Heeres, R.M.; van Rijs, F.; Alavi, M.S.; de Vreede, L.C.N.;
    In 2020 IEEE/MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS),
    pp. 1113-1116, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/IMS30576.2020.9223942
    Keywords: ... Radio frequency;Microwave measurement;Thermometers;Power measurement;Transmitters;Power amplifiers;Prototypes;Digital transmitter;CMOS RFIC;LDMOS;polar transmitter;digital pre-distortion (DPD);power RFDAC;digital power amplifier.

  9. A 1–3 GHz I/Q Interleaved Direct-Digital RF Modulator As A Driver for A Common-Gate PA in 40 nm CMOS
    Shen, Yiyu; Bootsman, Rob; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leo C.N.;
    In 2020 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC),
    pp. 287-290, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/RFIC49505.2020.9218324
    Keywords: ... Harmonic analysis;IP networks;Radio frequency;Clocks;Modulation;Computer architecture;Microprocessors;DDRM;PA driver;RF-DAC;CG PA;IQ-Interleaving;harmonic rejection;dynamic biasing;DPD-free.

  10. A 0.5-3 GHz I/Q Interleaved Direct-Digital RF Modulator with up to 320 MHz Modulation Bandwidth in 40 nm CMOS
    Shen, Yiyu; Bootsman, Rob; Alavi, Morteza S.; de Vreede, Leonardus;
    In 2020 IEEE Custom Integrated Circuits Conference (CICC),
    pp. 1-4, 2020. DOI: 10.1109/CICC48029.2020.9075949
    Keywords: ... Modulation;Bandwidth;Radio frequency;Computer architecture;Clocks;Distortion;Power generation;DDRM;RFDAC;quadrature up-converter;IQ-Mapping;Digital-Intensive Transmitter;DPD-free.

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