A low-power digitally controlled wideband FM transceiver

Author

Saputra, N. ; Long, John R. ; Pekarik, John J.

Author_Institution

ERL/DIMES, Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2014

fDate

1-3 June 2014

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

24

Abstract

A frequency-agile, low-power 3-5 GHz FM transceiver with on-chip calibration, and digital control of Rx gain, Tx power, and carrier frequency is described. The FCC-compliant transmitter incorporates a 3-phase CCO and frequency-tripling PA. A tunable LNA, envelope detector, limiter, and FSK demodulator comprise the receiver. Measured Rx sensitivity is -80.5 dBm (10^-3 BER) at 100 kb/s. The 0.9 mm² IC fabricated in 90 nm RF-CMOS dissipates 630 μW in Tx and 580 μW in Rx mode from a 1 V supply.

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; MMIC power amplifiers; demodulators; digital control; frequency shift keying; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; radio transceivers; 3-phase CCO; FCC-compliant transmitter; FSK demodulator; IC fabrication; RF-CMOS; Rx gain; Tx power; bit rate 100 kbit/s; carrier frequency; digital control; envelope detector; frequency 3 GHz to 5 GHz; frequency-agile low-power FM transceiver; frequency-tripling PA; limiter; low-power digitally-controlled wideband FM transceiver; measured receiver sensitivity; on-chip calibration; power 580 muW; power 630 muW; size 90 nm; tunable LNA; voltage 1 V; Bit error rate; Frequency shift keying; Radio frequency; Sensitivity; Transceivers; Wideband; CCO; RF-CMOS; UWB-FM; Ultrawideband; digital self-calibration; frequency modulation; frequency-tripling PA; low-power; regenerative amplifier;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, 2014 IEEE

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-3862-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2014.6851647

Filename

6851647