A Multimode Receiver Front-end for Software Defined Radio

Author

Kruth, Andre ; Simon, Martin ; Dufrene, Krzysztof ; Weigel, Robert ; Boos, Zdravko ; Heinen, Stefan

Author_Institution

Chair of Integrated Analog Circuits, RWTH Aachen

fYear

2006

fDate

10-12 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

19

Lastpage

22

Abstract

A flexible multimode receiver architecture for software defined radio systems with focus on GSM, WCDMA and CDMA systems has been designed in a 120 nm CMOS technology. The receiver consists of a wideband coilless common gate LNA2 with gain switches and a high linearity down-converter with current interface between mixer and baseband-filter. The LO signal of a 8 GHz VCO and divider with ratio 4 respectively 8 covers the whole receiver frequency range. The receiver consumes 32 mA at 1.5 V supply voltage

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MMIC mixers; MMIC oscillators; filtering theory; low noise amplifiers; radio receivers; software radio; voltage-controlled oscillators; 1.5 V; 120 nm; 32 mA; 8 GHz; CMOS technology; LNA; VCO; baseband-filter; down-converter; low-noise amplifier; mixer; multimode receiver front-end architecture; software defined radio system; voltage controlled oscillator; CMOS technology; Computer architecture; GSM; Linearity; Multiaccess communication; Receivers; Software radio; Switches; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wideband; Broadband amplifiers; demodulators; gain measurements; mixer noise; mobile communications; receivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Technology, 2006. The 9th European Conference on

Conference_Location

Manchester

Print_ISBN

2-9600551-5-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ECWT.2006.280424

Filename

4057427