• DocumentCode
    776620
  • Title

    A State-Space Approach to Intermodulation Distortion Estimation in Fully Balanced Bandpass G_{m} C Filters Wit

  • Author

    Çelik, Abdullah ; Zhang, Zhaonian ; Sotiriadis, Paul P.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng., Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD
  • Volume
    54
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    4/1/2007 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    829
  • Lastpage
    844
  • Abstract
    A state-space approach to estimating intermodulation distortion in bandpass Gm-C filters with fully balanced, weakly nonlinear transconductors is introduced. It results in compact analytic expressions applicable to Gm-C filters of any order. For verifying the theory, two Gm-C filters with fully balanced weakly nonlinear transconductors have been designed using Cadence. They have been simulated in SpectreS as well as modeled and simulated in Simulink. Theory and simulation results are found in good agreement
  • Keywords
    band-pass filters; continuous time filters; intermodulation distortion; Cadence; Gm-C filters; Simulink; SpectreS; bandpass filters; circuit analysis; continuous-time filter; distortion model; intermodulation distortion estimation; nonlinear transconductors; perturbation; state-space model; weak nonlinearity; Active filters; Band pass filters; CMOS technology; Circuit simulation; Frequency estimation; Intermodulation distortion; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear filters; State estimation; Transconductors; $G_{m}$ $C$ filter; Bandpass; circuit analysis; continuous-time filter; distortion model; fast algorithm; fully balanced; fully differential; intermodulation distortion (IMD); perturbation; state-space model; weak nonlinearity;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1549-8328
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCSI.2006.887630
  • Filename
    4155023