• DocumentCode
    3457955
  • Title

    A 5GHz-band SiGe-MMIC quadrature modulator using a circular polyphase filter for 1Gbps transmission

  • Author

    Nakajima, Kensuke ; Suematsu, Noriharu ; Murakami, Keishi ; Takagi, Tadashi ; Nakase, Hiroyuki ; Isota, Yoji ; Tsubouchi, Kazuo

  • Author_Institution
    Inf. Technol. R&D Center, Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan
  • Volume
    2
  • fYear
    2005
  • fDate
    4-6 Oct. 2005
  • Abstract
    A 5GHz-band SiGe-MMIC direct conversion quadrature modulator using a circular polyphase filter for high data rate is described. High I/Q vector accuracy is achieved using a circular polyphase filter with a completely symmetric layout as a 90 degrees LO power divider. By combining high cut-off frequency baseband amplifiers and broad-band unit mixers, a fabricated quadrature modulator shows the EVM of 3.3% rms at 5.5 GHz using 64-QAM OFDM signals with the channel bandwidth of 204 MHz, which corresponds to the data rate of 1.161 Gbps.
  • Keywords
    Ge-Si alloys; MMIC; microwave filters; modulators; 1 Gbit/s; 1.161 Gbit/s; 204 MHz; 5 GHz; 5.5 GHz; MMIC quadrature modulator; QAM OFDM signals; SiGe; amplifiers; circular polyphase filter; mixers; power divider; Baseband; Cutoff frequency; Distributed parameter circuits; Information filtering; Information filters; OFDM modulation; Radio frequency; Resistors; Transceivers; Transmission lines;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Microwave Conference, 2005 European
  • Print_ISBN
    2-9600551-2-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/EUMC.2005.1610092
  • Filename
    1610092