Positioning double column table below single column tables

Question

I am using \documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran} for writing LaTeX.
I want to place the double column table table* below the single column tables table on the top of document like this.

I have read several articles that the only available options for table* are t (top of next page) or p (end of document. Page-wide table in two-column mode
So, I guess I need to find alternative way to represent the double column table table*.
Is there any other way that I can get the placement of tables like above?

Answer 1

As @DavidCarlisle has already suggested in a comment, you could place all three tables in a single table* environment. In the following code, the tables and their associated \caption statements are "wrapped" in minipage environments. The three tables employ tabularx environments with overall width \linewidth, to assure that they occupy the full width of the enclosing minipage environments.

\documentclass[conference]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage{tabularx}
\usepackage{newtxtext,newtxmath} % optional
\begin{document}
\begin{table}
%% first minipage
\begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}
\caption{Single-column wide}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|{5}{X|}}
\hline
& & & & \ \hline
& & & & \ \hline
& & & & \ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{minipage}
\hfill
%% second minipage % observe: no blank line above this line
\begin{minipage}{\columnwidth}
\caption{Single-column wide}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|*{5}{X|}}
\hline
& & & & \ \hline
& & & & \ \hline
& & & & \ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{minipage}
\bigskip 
%% third minipage
\begin{minipage}{\textwidth}
\caption{Double-column wide}
\begin{tabularx}{\linewidth}{|{5}{X|}}
\hline
& & & & \ \hline
& & & & \ \hline
& & & & \ \hline
\end{tabularx}
\end{minipage}
\end{table}
\end{document}