A 0.4–6GHz LO generation system using a dual-mode VCO for Software-Defined Radio

Author

Zhou, Jin ; Li, Wei ; Li, Ning ; Ren, Junyan

Author_Institution

State Key Lab. of ASIC & Syst., Fudan Univ., Shanghai, China

fYear

2010

Firstpage

740

Lastpage

742

Abstract

A wide tuning range LO generation architecture and its implementation for Software-Defined Radio (SDR) is presented. A continuous wide tuning range is achieved by using a dual mode VCO, a quadrature single sideband mixer and frequency dividers. The dual mode VCO can work either in a wideband mode or in a quadrature mode to support the proposed architecture. The circuit is implemented in TSMC 0.13μm CMOS process. Post simulation results show that the generator achieves a 0.4-6GHz continuous tuning range with a FOMT ranging from -201.7 ~ -204.5dBc/Hz.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC mixers; MMIC oscillators; UHF mixers; UHF oscillators; field effect MMIC; frequency dividers; software radio; voltage-controlled oscillators; LO generation system; SDR; TSMC CMOS process; dual-mode VCO; frequency 0.4 GHz to 6 GHz; frequency divider; quadrature mode; quadrature single sideband mixer; size 0.13 mum; software-defined radio; wideband mode; Generators; Mixers; Power demand; Switches; Tuning; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology (ICSICT), 2010 10th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5797-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2010.5667398

Filename

5667398