A reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter for UTRA-TDD mobile terminal receiver

Author

Stojcevski, A. ; Singh, J. ; Zayegh, A.

Author_Institution

Centre of Telecommun. & Microelectron., Victoria Univ., Melbourne, Vic., Australia

Volume

2

fYear

2002

fDate

4-7 Aug. 2002

Abstract

A reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter (ADC) has been proposed for a mobile terminal. This architecture scales the digital word length (bits) by automatically monitoring desired power and adjacent channel interference power. This leads to power consumption savings, depending on the number of bits used. The architecture can scale between a minimum of 4 bits and maximum of 16 bits. The new reconfigurable ADC was applied to Time-Division-Duplex (TDD) mode of UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access (UTRA) system and results show that this reconfigurable ADC can save up 75 % of the power consumption when compared with the power consumption of a standard 16-bit analog-to-digital converter.

Keywords

3G mobile communication; adjacent channel interference; analogue-digital conversion; low-power electronics; mobile radio; radio access networks; radio receivers; reconfigurable architectures; telecommunication terminals; time division multiplexing; 4 to 16 bit; Time-Division-Duplex mode; UMTS Terrestrial Radio Access system; UTRA-TDD mobile terminal receiver; adjacent channel interference; power consumption; reconfigurable analog-to-digital converter; 3G mobile communication; Analog-digital conversion; Downlink; Energy consumption; IEEE members; Interchannel interference; Microelectronics; Mobile communication; Pipelines; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. MWSCAS-2002. The 2002 45th Midwest Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7523-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSCAS.2002.1186936

Filename

1186936