A 2.4GHz direct modulated 0.18μm CMOS IEEE 802.15.4 compliant Transmitter for ZigBee

Author

Beyer, S. ; Jaehne, R. ; Kluge, W. ; Eggert, D.

Author_Institution

Atmel, Dresden

fYear

2006

Firstpage

121

Lastpage

124

Abstract

This paper presents improved fractional-N based transmitter architecture, fully compliant with ZigBee IEEE 802.15.4 standard. Operating in the 2.4 GHz ISM frequency range, the fractional-N PLL based synthesizer architecture achieves an integrated phase noise of 2.6 deg _rms (250 Hz - 1.5 MHz). The transmitter error-vector magnitude (EVM) for MSK modulated signals is 5.3 % with an output level of approximately +4 dBm. This transmitter is incorporated in a single-chip RF transceiver providing a complete antenna-to-micro controller radio interface

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; IEEE standards; personal area networks; phase locked loops; transceivers; 0.18 micron; 2.4 GHz; 250 to 1.5E6 Hz; IEEE 802.15.4; ZigBee; antenna-to-microcontroller radio interface; compliant transmitter; direct modulated CMOS; error-vector magnitude; fractional-N PLL based synthesizer; fractional-N based transmitter architecture; single-chip RF transceiver; CMOS technology; Delay; Frequency synthesizers; Phase frequency detector; Phase locked loops; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Transceivers; Voltage-controlled oscillators; ZigBee;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, 2006. CICC '06. IEEE

Conference_Location

San Jose, CA

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0075-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0076-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CICC.2006.320847

Filename

4114922