Broadband receiver frontend with high dynamic range for multi-standard digital radio

Author

Lindner, Bastian ; Joram, Niko ; Strobel, Axel ; Yodprasit, Uroschanit ; Ellinger, F.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Circuit Design & Network Theor., Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

21-23 Oct. 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

A receiver frontend consisting of a low noise amplifier (LNA) and a quadrature down-conversion mixer is presented which is optimized for large bandwidth and high input dynamic range. The input bandwidth covers several standards such as DAB, DRM+ and DVB-T. A minimum system noise figure of 5dB is achieved. The 1 dB compression point reaches 7dBm and the input-referred IP3 amounts to 15dBm. A dynamic range of -99dBm to 7dBm and frequency range from 17MHz up to 2 GHz e.g. for DAB is reached. The DC power consumption is 30 mW. The frontend is fabricated in 180nm BiCMOS technology and requires a total area of 0.8 mm².

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; broadband networks; digital video broadcasting; low noise amplifiers; power consumption; BiCMOS technology; DAB; DC power consumption; DRM+; DVB-T; LNA; broadband receiver frontend; compression point; high dynamic range; low noise amplifier; minimum system noise figure; multistandard digital radio; quadrature down-conversion mixer; Digital communication; Frequency measurement; Gain; Mixers; Noise measurement; Radio frequency; Receivers; Broadband amplifiers; Digital audio broadcasting; SiGe BiCMOS;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwaves, Communications, Antennas and Electronics Systems (COMCAS), 2013 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tel Aviv

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COMCAS.2013.6685316

Filename

6685316