CMOS RF T/R router switch ICs for LTE carrier aggregation transceivers

Author

Chang-Ming Lai ; Je-Kuan Jau ; Ping-Hsun Wu ; Chun-Hsiang Chi ; Chia-Hao Tu ; Jian-Yu Li

Author_Institution

Inf. & Commun. Res. Labs., ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2012

fDate

Oct. 31 2012-Nov. 2 2012

Firstpage

578

Lastpage

581

Abstract

Carrier aggregation technique combines multiple narrow band channels to achieve a wide bandwidth for highspeed data communication. The proposed router switch architecture reduces the circuit complexity while maintaining the flexibility to meet the requirement of carrier aggregation systems. In this work, two router switch ICs are implemented in 0.18μm CMOS technology to provide dynamic RF paths for carrier aggregation among different channels and bands. The ICs are tested with LTE R9 signals.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Long Term Evolution; data communication; integrated circuit design; radio transceivers; switched networks; CMOS RF T/R router switch integrated circuit; LTE R9 signals; LTE carrier aggregation transceivers; Long Term Evolution; circuit complexity; dynamic RF paths; high speed data communication; size 0.18 mum; Bandwidth; CMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Radio frequency; Switches; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radar Conference (EuRAD), 2012 9th European

Conference_Location

Amsterdam

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-2471-7

Type

conf

Filename

6450679

Link To Document

https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=593562