A transceiver module for quad band EGPRS (GSM/GPRS/EDGE) class 12 applications

Author

Fitzgibbon, Morgan E. ; Mondai, J. ; McSwiney, Diarmuid ; O´Keeffe, Dermot ; Redmond, David ; Waldie, William

Author_Institution

Freescale Semicond. Ireland Design Centre, Cork

fYear

2005

Firstpage

15

Lastpage

18

Abstract

This paper describes the design, technology selection and performance of a compact mixed signal transceiver module for wireless quad band EGPRS applications. The module uses 6 layers of HDI-organic substrate, integrates three IC technologies - 0.18 mum RF-CMOS for RF/Analog, 0.13 mum CMOS for mixed signal analog/digital/DSP and GaAs for an integrated passive devices (IPD) quad band balun - plus surface mount devices (SMD) for loop filter and RF bypass. It has the complete transmit line up from digital bits (as per DigRF standard version 1.1) to power amplifier interface, as well as receive function from LNA inputs to bits (per DigRF standard)

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; baluns; cellular radio; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; packet radio networks; power amplifiers; surface mount technology; transceivers; 0.13 mum; 0.18 mum; EDGE; GSM; HDI-organic substrate; RF bypass; RF-CMOS; integrated passive devices; loop filter; power amplifier interface; quad band balun; signal transceiver module; surface mount devices; wireless quad band EGPRS; Analog integrated circuits; CMOS analog integrated circuits; CMOS digital integrated circuits; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; GSM; Ground penetrating radar; Radio frequency; Signal design; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology, 2005. The European Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-1-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2005.1617643

Filename

1617643