A Fully Integrated 2.4-GHz IEEE 802.15.4-Compliant Transceiver for ZigBee™ Applications

Author

Kluge, Wolfram ; Poegel, Frank ; Roller, Hendrik ; Lange, Matthias ; Ferchland, Tilo ; Dathe, Lutz ; Eggert, Dietmar

Author_Institution

Atmel, Dresden

Volume

41

Issue

12

fYear

2006

Firstpage

2767

Lastpage

2775

Abstract

A single-chip 2.4-GHz CMOS radio transceiver with integrated baseband processing according to the IEEE 802.15.4 standard is presented. The transceiver consumes 14.7 mA in receive mode and 15.7 mA in transmit mode. The receiver uses a low-IF topology for high sensitivity and low power consumption, and achieves -101 dBm sensitivity for 1% packet error rate. The transmitter topology is based on a PLL direct-modulation scheme. Optimizations of architecture and circuit design level in order to reduce the transceiver power consumption are described. Special attention is paid to the RF front-end design which consumes 2.4mA in receive mode and features bidirectional RF pins. The 5.77 mm² chip is implemented in a standard 0.18-mum CMOS technology. The transmitter delivers +3 dBm into the 100-Omega differential antenna port

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; IEEE standards; low noise amplifiers; phase locked loops; power amplifiers; transceivers; 0.18 micron; 100 ohm; 14.7 mA; 15.7 mA; 2.4 GHz; 2.4 mA; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS radio transceiver; IEEE 802.15.4-compliant transceiver; PLL direct-modulation scheme; RF front-end design; ZigBee applications; bidirectional RF pins; differential antenna port; integrated baseband processing; low-IF topology; low-noise amplifier; phase locked loop; power amplifier; receive mode; spread-spectrum communication; switching mixers; transmit mode; wireless communication; Baseband; CMOS process; CMOS technology; Circuit topology; Energy consumption; Error analysis; Radio frequency; Radio transceivers; Radio transmitters; Receivers; CMOS integrated circuits; IEEE 802.15.4; WPAN; low-IF receiver; low-noise amplifier; power amplifier; radio transceivers; single-chip radio; spread-spectrum communication; switching mixers; wireless communication;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2006.884802

Filename

4014617