• DocumentCode
    3697933
  • Title

    A switched-capacitor RF front end with embedded programmable high order filtering and a +15dBm OB-B1dB

  • Author

    Yang Xu;Peter R. Kinget

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, 10027, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    5/1/2015 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    291
  • Lastpage
    294
  • Abstract
    A 0.1–0.7GHz switched-capacitor RF front end features tunable center frequency and programmable filter order as well as very high tolerance for out-of-band (OB) blockers. RF input impedance matching, N-path filtering, down-conversion, and high order IIR filtering are implemented using highly linear switches and capacitors only. The 3.24mm2 40nm CMOS front-end prototype consumes 38.5–76.5mA, achieves 24dBm OB-IIP3 and 14.7dBm B1dB for a 30MHz offset, 6.8 to 9.7dB NF, and >66dB calibrated harmonic rejection ratio.
  • Keywords
    "Radio frequency","Frequency measurement","Capacitors","Clocks","Harmonic analysis","Impedance","Impedance matching"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2015 IEEE
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2015.7337762
  • Filename
    7337762