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In this chapter the last interfacing block to the line, being the line driver is addressed. The use of multi-tone modulation schemes in recent telecommunication systems raise the power consumption of these building blocks enormously, creating a new bottleneck. Soon, the classical class AB solutions will be no longer applicable from a power efficiency point-of-view. More advanced circuit techniques like class G and class H are emerging. Ultimately switching type amplifiers, which suffer the high bandwidth and linearity constraints, will have to be used to decrease the power dissipation.
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Piessens, T., Steyaert, M. (2003). Line Drivers: Efficiency, Linearity, Bandwidth. In: Rodríguez-Vázquez, A., Medeiro, F., Janssens, E. (eds) CMOS Telecom Data Converters. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3724-0_13
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