A direct-conversion receiver for DVB-H

Author

Antoine, Patrick ; Bauser, Philippe ; Beaulaton, Hugues ; Buchholz, Martin ; Carey, Declan ; Cassagnes, Thierry ; Chan, T.K. ; Colomines, Stephane ; Hurley, Fionn ; Jobling, David T. ; Kearney, Niall ; Murphy, Aidan C. ; Rock, James ; Salle, Didier ; Tu,

Author_Institution

Freescale Semicond., Toulouse, France

Volume

40

Issue

12

fYear

2005

Firstpage

2536

Lastpage

2546

Abstract

A fully integrated low-power ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) tuner integrated circuit (IC) design for the digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H) market is presented. A direct-conversion receiver is chosen over classical digital video broadcasting-terrestrial (DVB-T) architectures. The tuner IC covers UHF bands IV/V. The solution is based on a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) and external low-noise amplifier (LNA) to meet the noise figure (NF) specification of 5 dB, IIP3 of 4dBm, and Gain of 89 dB. The IC includes an LNA, dual quadrature mixers, multiple bandwidth baseband (BB) filtering, three 4X voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), integer phase-locked loop (PLL), and reference oscillator. The design is implemented in a SiGe:C bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductor (BiCMOS) technology and the die area is 11.5 mm².

Keywords

BiCMOS digital integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; UHF filters; UHF integrated circuits; carbon; digital video broadcasting; low noise amplifiers; low-power electronics; mixers (circuits); phase locked loops; television receivers; tuning; voltage-controlled oscillators; 5 dB; 89 dB; BiCMOS technology; SiGe:C; UHF bands; UHF tuner; digital video broadcasting-handheld; direct-conversion receiver; dual quadrature mixers; integer phase-locked loop; low-noise amplifier; low-power tuner; multiple bandwidth baseband filtering; radiofrequency integrated circuits; reference oscillator; tuner integrated circuit; ultrahigh-frequency tuner; voltage-controlled oscillators; Digital integrated circuits; Digital video broadcasting; Phase locked loops; Radio broadcasting; Radiofrequency integrated circuits; Receivers; Tuners; UHF circuits; UHF integrated circuits; Voltage-controlled oscillators; Digital video broadcasting-handheld (DVB-H); direct-conversion receiver; low-noise amplifier (LNA); voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2005.857429

Filename

1546229