Title :
A Wide-Band Front-end for Terrestrial and Cable Receptions
Author :
Gu, Ming ; Ma, Desheng ; Mao, Wei ; Yan, Jun ; Shi, Yin ; Dai, Fa Foster ; Jaeger, Richard C.
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Semicond., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing
Abstract :
In this paper, a wide-band low noise amplifier, two mixers and a VCO with its buffers implemented in 50GHz 0.35mum SiGe BiCMOS technology for dual-conversion digital TV tuner front-end is presented. The LNA and up-converting mixer utilizes current injection technology to achieve high linearity. Without using inductors, the LNA achieves 0.1-1GHz wide bandwidth and 18.8-dB gain with less than 1.4-dB gain variation. The noise figure of the LNA is less than 5dB and its 1dB compression point is -2 dBm. The IIP3 of two mixers is 25-dBm. The measurement results show that the VCO has -127.27-dBc/Hz phase noise at 1-MHz offset and a linear gain of 32.4-MHz/V between 990-MHz and 1.14-GHz. The whole chip consume 253mW power with 5-V supply
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; digital television; low noise amplifiers; mixers (circuits); television receivers; voltage-controlled oscillators; 0.1 to 1 GHz; 0.35 micron; 18.8 dB; 253 mW; 5 V; 50 GHz; BiCMOS technology; SiGe; VCO; cable reception; current injection technology; dual-conversion digital TV tuner; terrestrial reception; up-converting mixer; wideband front-end; wideband low noise amplifier; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Broadband amplifiers; Cable TV; Digital TV; Germanium silicon alloys; Low-noise amplifiers; Silicon germanium; Tuners; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Wideband;
Conference_Titel :
Solid-State and Integrated Circuit Technology, 2006. ICSICT '06. 8th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Shanghai
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0160-7
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0161-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICSICT.2006.306377
