• DocumentCode
    497969
  • Title

    A 2×VDD-enabled TV-tuner RF front-end supporting TV-GSM interoperation in 90nm CMOS

  • Author

    Mak, Pui-In ; Martins, R.P.

  • Author_Institution
    Analog and Mixed-Signal VLSI Laboratory, FST, University of Macau, Macao, China
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    16-18 June 2009
  • Firstpage
    278
  • Lastpage
    279
  • Abstract
    Presented is a 2xVDD-enabled 90nm-CMOS TV-tuner RF frontend consisting of a power-efficient cascode-cascade-inverter LNA, a linearized C-2C attenuator using a reliably-overdriven control, dual cascode I/Q mixer drivers and an inductivepeaking gain-roll-off compensation path. In TV-GSM-interoperation mode, the circuit incooperating with a customized preselect filter exhibits a 46dB gain range, 68dB rejection at GSM-900 uplink, −5.5dBm IIP3, and 3.9dB noise figure at 26.2dB gain. The 0.28mm2 core draws 15mW.
  • Keywords
    Attenuators; Circuits; Electrostatic discharge; GSM; Linearity; Passband; Power harmonic filters; Radio frequency; Tuners; Voltage;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    VLSI Circuits, 2009 Symposium on
  • Conference_Location
    Kyoto, Japan
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3307-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-4-86348-001-8
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5205320