A 5-GHz direct-conversion CMOS transceiver

Author

Zhang, Pengfei ; Nguyen, Thai ; Lam, Christopher ; Gambetta, Douglas ; Soorapanth, Theerachet ; Cheng, Baohong ; Hart, Siegfried ; Sever, Isaac ; Bourdi, Taoufik ; Tham, Andrew ; Razavi, Behzad

Author_Institution

RF Micro Devices, San Jose, CA, USA

Volume

38

Issue

12

fYear

2003

Firstpage

2232

Lastpage

2238

Abstract

A CMOS transceiver fully compliant with IEEE 802.11a in the unlicensed national information infrastructure (UNII) band (5.15-5.35 GHz) achieves a receiver sensitivity of -5 dBm for 64-QAM (quadrature amplitude modulation) with an error vector magnitude (EVM) of -29.3 dB. A single-sideband mixing technique for local-oscillator signal generation avoids frequency pulling. Realized in 0.18-μm CMOS and operating from 1.8-V power supply, the design consumes 171 mW in receive mode and 135 mW in transmit mode while occupying less than 13 mm².

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; frequency division multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; radio access networks; sensitivity analysis; transceivers; wireless LAN; 0.18-μm CMOS; 1.8 V; 135 mW; 171 mW; 29.3 dB; 5 GHz; 5.15 to 5.35 GHz; 64-QAM; IEEE 802.11a standard; OFDM; UNIT band; WLAN; direct-conversion CMOS transceiver; error vector magnitude; frequency pulling; local-oscillator signal generation; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing; quadrature amplitude modulation; receiver sensitivity; single-sideband mixing technique; unlicensed national information infrastructure; wireless LAN; wireless local-area network; Bandwidth; FCC; Image converters; Local area networks; OFDM modulation; Power supplies; Space technology; Surface acoustic waves; Transceivers; Wireless LAN;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/JSSC.2003.819088

Filename

1253870