A Multistandard RF Receiver Front-End Using a Reconfigurable FBAR Filter

Author

El Hassan, Moustapha ; Moreira, C.P. ; Shirakawa, A.A. ; Kerherve, E. ; Deval, Y. ; Belot, D. ; Cathelin, A.

Author_Institution

IXL Lab.-, Bordeaux Univ.

fYear

2006

fDate

38869

Firstpage

173

Lastpage

176

Abstract

This article presents a dual-standard RF receiver front-end (RFFE). It consists of a reconfigurable FBAR filter using MEMS switches, a dual-standard low-noise amplifier (LNA), an active single-to-differential converter (SDC) and I/Q down conversion mixers. The proposed RFFE is targeted to W-LAN 802.11b/g (2.4-2.48 GHz) and W-CDMA-FDD (2.11-2.17 GHz) wireless standards. The active blocks use the 0.25-mum SiGe:C BiCMOS process from STMicroelectronics. The feasibility of BiCMOS compatible integrated tunable FBAR filter in BAW technology enables a very compact solution through module integration

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; UHF integrated circuits; acoustic resonator filters; bulk acoustic wave devices; code division multiple access; microwave receivers; wireless LAN; 0.25 micron; 2.11 to 2.17 GHz; 2.4 to 2.48 GHz; BAW technology; BiCMOS process; MEMS switches; STMicroelectronics; SiGe:C; W-CDMA-FDD; W-LAN 802.11b/g; multistandard RF receiver; reconfigurable FBAR filter; tunable FBAR filter; Acoustic waves; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Film bulk acoustic resonators; Low-noise amplifiers; Microswitches; Multiaccess communication; Radio frequency; Resonator filters; Switching converters; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2006 IEEE North-East Workshop on

Conference_Location

Gatineau, Que.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0416-9

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0417-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NEWCAS.2006.250958

Filename

4016989