A fully integrated Ku-band down-converter front-end for DBS receivers

Author

Ping-Yi Wang ; Min-Chih Chou ; Po-Cheng Su ; Yin-Cheng Chang ; Kai-Hsin Chuang ; Hsu, Shawn S. H.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

1-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

A fully integrated Ku-band down-converter front-end for digital broadcast satellite (DBS) receiver in a 0.18 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology is presented. To meet the specifications in different areas, the circuit can cover a wide RF range (10.7-13.45 GHz) with four LO frequencies, and down convert the RF signal to L-Band (950-2150 MHz). Compared with previous works, the presented down-converter using a low cost technology to achieve a low noise figure (<; 6 dB), high gain (> 51 dB), and high linearity (OP_1dB > 5.5 dBm) under low power consumption (32 mA; 135 mW) with an excellent gain flatness (±1 dB) and a very small chip area (0.6 mm²). This is also the first report of the DBS down-converter covering four different LO frequencies, to the best of our knowledge.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; direct broadcasting by satellite; elemental semiconductors; microwave frequency convertors; radio receivers; 0.18 μm silicon-germanium BiCMOS technology; DBS receivers; LO frequencies; current 32 mA; digital broadcast satellite receiver; frequency 10.7 GHz to 13.45 GHz; frequency 950 MHz to 2150 MHz; fully integrated Ku-band down-converter front-end; gain flatness; high gain; high linearity; low noise figure; low power consumption; power 135 mW; very small chip area; Frequency measurement; Gain; HEMTs; Indexes; Radio frequency; Satellite broadcasting; TV; BiCMOS; DBS; Ku-Band; LNB; down-converter; receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848401

Filename

6848401