A Switchless Zigbee Frontend Transceiver With Matching Component Sharing of LNA and PA

Author

Kim, Young-jin ; Hwang, In-Chul ; Baek, Donghyun

Author_Institution

Korea Aerosp. Univ., Goyang, South Korea

Volume

20

Issue

9

fYear

2010

Firstpage

516

Lastpage

518

Abstract

This letter presents a low power and low cost RF transceiver for Zigbee standard (IEEE 802.15.4) using a switchless front-end configuration. It is enabled by designing the matching networks that a low noise amplifier and a power amplifier can share. The transceiver has been implemented in 1P6M 0.18 μm CMOS process. The receiver achieves 4.4 dB NF, -6.5 dBm IIP3 and 25.7 dB gain with 3-step digital gain controllability, while drawing 4.9 mA from 1.8 V power supply. The power amplifier dissipates 5 mA from 1.8 V power supply at 3 dBm output power and 16.5% EVM at worst, having 21 dB digital gain controllability. The die area is 1 mm × 1 mm.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; low noise amplifiers; personal area networks; telecommunication standards; transceivers; CMOS; IEEE 802.15.4; LNA; PA; RF transceiver; Zigbee standard; current 4.9 mA; current 5 mA; gain 21 dB; gain 25.7 dB; low noise amplifier; matching networks; noise figure 4.4 dB; power amplifier; power supply; size 0.18 mum; size 1 mm; switchless Zigbee frontend transceiver matching component sharing; switchless front-end configuration; voltage 1.8 V; Controllability; Costs; Gain; Low-noise amplifiers; Noise; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Power supplies; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Receivers; Switches; Transceivers; ZigBee; Zigbee; CMOS; RF; ZigBee; common-source; frontend; low noise amplifier (LNA); power amplifier (PA);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Microwave and Wireless Components Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1531-1309

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LMWC.2010.2056676

Filename

5545470