Integrated transceivers for digital cordless applications

Author

Heinen, Stefan

Author_Institution

RF IC Group, Infineon Technol. AG, Dusseldorf, Germany

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

44

Lastpage

51

Abstract

Over the last decade, the RF-IC integration level has shown significant progress, specially for cordless applications. At present, these applications are DECT, DECT on 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth. An overview of the evolution of the RF integration level is presented. Starting from a building block solution back in the early 1990s, the single conversion concept has been pushed to a trim-less single chip radio. Recent developments are enabling an advanced “single conversion” solution, replacing the SAW filter by a low-IF integrated active filter. Single chip implementations of the low-IF approach suitable for DECT, Bluetooth and other 2.4 GHz systems are presented

Keywords

UHF filters; UHF integrated circuits; active filters; cordless telephone systems; integrated circuit design; integrated circuit measurement; mobile radio; transceivers; 2.4 GHz; Bluetooth; DECT; RF integration level; RF-IC integration level; SAW filter; building block solution; cordless applications; digital cordless applications; integrated transceivers; low-IF integrated active filter; single chip implementation; single conversion; single conversion concept; trim-less single chip radio; Active filters; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Bluetooth; Ceramics; Costs; Radio frequency; Radio spectrum management; SAW filters; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bipolar/BiCMOS Circuits and Technology Meeting, 2000. Proceedings of the 2000

Conference_Location

Minneapolis, MN

ISSN

1088-9299

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6384-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/BIPOL.2000.886171

Filename

886171