A 130nm low power Software-Defined radio receiver

Author

Bousseaud, Pierre ; Novakov, Emil ; Fournier, J.-M.

fYear

2012

fDate

4-7 Dec. 2012

Firstpage

1022

Lastpage

1024

Abstract

A low power Software-Defined radio receiver operating between 400MHz and 1.5GHz is presented, with the property to be robust to out-of-band blockers, thanks to the 4-path passive mixer architecture which acts as a high-Q bandpass filter for RF signals. The filter formed by the mixer at baseband fixes the receiver bandwidth at 10MHz. A common-gate cross-coupled LNA realizes a wideband input matching. The receiver works under 1.2V while consuming less than 10mW. The analog part consumes 4.8mW and the digital part consumes less than 5mW. The receiver has been implemented on a chip and occupies only 0.7mm² silicon area.

Keywords

UHF mixers; band-pass filters; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; radio receivers; software radio; 4-path passive mixer architecture; RF signals; bandwidth 10 MHz; common-gate cross-coupled LNA; frequency 400 MHz to 1.5 GHz; high-Q bandpass filter; low power software-defined radio receiver; out-of-band blockers; power 4.8 mW; size 130 nm; voltage 1.2 V; wideband input matching; Capacitors; Filtering; Logic gates; Mixers; Radio frequency; Receivers; Switches; High-Q; LNA; SAW-less; Software-Defined radio; cognitive radio; direct-RF sampling; filtering; linearity; out-of-band blockers; passive mixer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Conference Proceedings (APMC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Kaohsiung

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1330-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4577-1331-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APMC.2012.6421812

Filename

6421812