A monolithic 3.1-4.8 GHz MB-OFDM UWB transceiver in 0.18-μm CMOS

正A monolithic RF transceiver for an MB-OFDM UWB system in 3.1-4.8 GHz is presented.The transceiver adopts direct-conversion architecture and integrates all building blocks including a gain controllable wideband LNA,a I/Q merged quadrature mixer,a fifth-order Gm-C bi-quad Chebyshev LPF/VGA,a fast-settling frequency synthesizer with a poly-phase filter,a linear broadband up-conversion quadrature modulator,an active D2S converter and a variablegain power amplifier.The ESD protected transceiver is fabricated in Jazz Semiconductor's 0.18-μm RF CMOS with an area of 6.1 mm~2 and draws a total current of 221 mAfrom 1.8-V supply.The receiver achieves a maximum voltage gain of 68 dB with a control range of 42 dB in 6 dB/step,noise figures of 5.5-8.8 dB for three sub-bands,and an inband /out-band IIP_3 better than-4 dBm/+9 dBm.The transmitter achieves an output power ranging from-10.7 to-3 dBm with gain control,an output P_(1dB) better than-7.7 dBm,a sideband rejection about 32.4 dBc,and LO suppression of 31.1 dBc.The hopping time among sub-bands is less than 2.05 ns.     

A 3.1-4.8 GHz transmitter with a high frequency divider in 0.18μm CMOS for OFDM-UWB

A fully integrated low power RF transmitter for a WiMedia 3.1-4.8 GHz multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wideband system is presented. With a separate transconductance stage, the quadrature up-conversion modulator achieves high linearity with low supply voltage. The co-design of different resonant frequencies of the modulator and the differential to single （D2S） converter ensures in-band gain flatness. By means of a series inductor peaking technique, the D2S converter obtains 9 dB more gain without extra power consumption. A divided-by-2 divider is used for carrier signal generation. The measurement results show an output power between -10.7 and -3.1 dBm with 7.6 dB control range, an OIP3 up to 12 dBm, a sideband rejection of 35 dBc and a carrier rejection of 30 dBc. The ESD protected chip is fabricated in the Jazz 0.18μm RF CMOS process with an area of 1.74 mm^2 and only consumes 32 mA current （at 1.8 V） including the test associated parts.     

A 3.1–4.8-GHz direct-conversion mixer in 0.35-μm CMOS for mode-1 MB-OFDM UWB systems

This paper presents a CMOS direct-conversion mixer for TFI-OFDM receiver of UWB group #1 bands, providing a 110 Mbits/s rate and optimized for 0.35-μm technology. The proposed mixer uses the current-bleeding technique in both the driver and switching stages with wideband impedance matching, consisting of a bandpass filter embedding the RF stage. The 1/f noise of the switching pairs dominates the noise performance for down-converted frequencies below 1 MHz. Above 1 MHz, the insertion of an inductor at the tail of switching pairs reduces uniformly the noise figure by 2.2 dB. Over 3.1–4.8 GHz, the circuit drawing 6 mA from 3-V supply, shows a conversion gain of 14.0 ± 1.0 dB, IIP3 of 0 ± 2 dBm, double-sideband noise figure of 4.5–4.8 dB, and port-to-port isolation above 61.0 dB. The mixer output bandwidth is 460 MHz. The RF power and LO amplitude marginally affect these performances within, respectively, the FCC-power limits and 2.5–3.4 V range.     

0.18μm CMOS 3.1-10.6GHz超宽带低噪声放大器设计

介绍了一种基于0.18μm CMOS工艺、适用于超宽带无线通信系统接收前端的低噪声放大器.在3.1～10.6GHz的频带范围内对它仿真获得如下结果:最高增益12dB;增益波动小于2dB;输入端口反射系数S11小于-10dB;输出端口反射系数S22小于-15dB;噪声系数NF小于4.6dB.采用1.5V电源供电,功耗为10.5mW.与近期公开发表的超宽带低噪声放大器仿真结果相比较,本电路结构具有工作带宽大、功耗低、输入匹配电路简单的优点.     

A 3.1-4.8 GHz transmitter with a high frequency divider in 0.18 μm CMOS for OFDM-UWB

A fully integrated low power RF transmitter for a WiMedia 3.1-4.8 GHz multiband orthogonal frequency division multiplexing ultra-wideband system is presented. With a separate transconductance stage, the quadrature up-conversion modulator achieves high linearity with low supply voltage. The co-design of different resonant frequencies of the modulator and the differential to single (D2S) converter ensures in-band gain flatness. By means of a series inductor peaking technique, the D2S converter obtains 9 dB more gain without extra power consumption. A divided-by-2 divider is used for carrier signal generation. The measurement results show an output power between -10.7 and -3.1 dBm with 7.6 dB control range, an OIP3 up to 12 dBm, a sideband rejection of 35 dBc and a carrier rejection of 30 dBc. The ESD protected chip is fabricated in the Jazz 0.18/zm RF CMOS process with an area of 1.74 mm~2 and only consumes 32 mA current (at 1.8 V) including the test associated parts.     

A low power high gain UWB LNA in 0.18-μm CMOS

A low power high gain differential UWB low noise amplifier (LNA) operating at 3-5 GHz is presented.A common gate input stage is used for wideband input matching; capacitor cross coupling (CCC) and current reuse techniques are combined to achieve high gain under low power consumption. The prototypes fabricated in 0.18-μm CMOS achieve a peak power gain of 17.5 dB with a -3 dB bandwidth of 2.8-5 GHz, a measured minimum noise figure (NF) of 3.35 dB and -12.6 dBm input-referred compression point at 5 GHz, while drawing 4.4 mA from a 1.8 V supply. The peak power gain is 14 dB under a 4.5 mW power consumption (3 mA from a 1.5 V supply). The proposed differential LNA occupies an area of 1.01 mm~2 including test pads.     

A 0.18μm CMOS low noise amplifier using a current reuse technique for 3.1-10.6 GHz UWB receivers

A new,low complexity,ultra-wideband 3.1-10.6 GHz low noise amplifier(LNA),designed in a chartered 0.18μm RFCMOS technology,is presented.The ultra-wideband LNA consists of only two simple amplifiers with an inter-stage inductor connected.The first stage utilizing a resistive current reuse and dual inductive degeneration technique is used to attain a wideband input matching and low noise figure.A common source amplifier with an inductive peaking technique as the second stage achieves high flat gain and wide -3 dB bandwidth of the overall amplifier simultaneously.The implemented ultra-wideband LNA presents a maximum power gain of 15.6 dB,and a high reverse isolation of—45 dB,and good input/output return losses are better than -10 dB in the frequency range of 3.1-10.6 GHz.An excellent noise figure(NF) of 2.8-4.7 dB was obtained in the required band with a power dissipation of 14.1 mW under a supply voltage of 1.5 V.An input-referred third-order intercept point(IIP3) is -7.1 dBm at 6 GHz.The chip area,including testing pads,is only 0.8×0.9 mm2.     

5 GHz 0.18-μm CMOS 可编程分频器

提出了一种2.4GHz ZigBee 应用的可编程分频器,其分频模值在2403-2480之间变化。该分频器基于双模分频器和吞咽计数器架构,功耗和面积得到了有效降低。芯片采用0.18-μm CMOS混合信号工艺实现,当输入信号达到7.5dBm时,分频器可正常工作的频率范围覆盖1-7.4 GHz,在100KHz频偏处的输出相位噪声为-125.3dBc/Hz。分频器核心电路消耗电流4.3mA（1.8V电源电压）,核心面积0.015mm2。测试结果表明该可编程分频器能很好的应用在所需的频率综合器中.     

A 900 MHz fractional-N synthesizer for UHF transceiver in 0.18μm CMOS technology

A 900 MHz fractional-N synthesizer is designed for the UHF transceiver. The VCO with a 4 bits capacitor bank covers 823–1061 MHz that implements 16(24)sub-bands. A 7/8 dual-modulus prescaler is implemented with a phase-switching circuit and high-speed flip–flops, which are composed of source coupled logic. The proposed synthesizer phase-locked loop is demonstrated with a 50 k Hz band width by a low 12.95 MHz reference clock, and offers a better phase noise and band width tradeoff. To reduce the out-band phase noise, a 4-levels 3-order single-loop sigma–delta modulator is applied. When its relative frequency resolution is settled to 10-6, the testing results show that the phase noises are –120.6 d Bc/Hz at 1 MHz and –95.0 d Bc/Hz at 100 k Hz. The chip is2.1 mm2 in UMC 0.18μm CMOS. The power is 36 m W at a 1.8 V supply.     

A 3-5 GHz BPSK transmitter for IR-UWB in 0.18μm CMOS

This paper presents a transmitter IC with BPSK modulation for an ultra-wide band system.It is based on up-conversion with a high linearity passive mixer.Unlike the traditional BPSK modulation scheme,the local oscillator (LO) is modulated by the baseband data instead of the pulse.The chip is designed and fabricated by standard 0.18μm CMOS technology.The transmitter achieves a high data rate up to 400 Mbps.The amplitude of the pulse can be adjusted by the amplitude of the LO and the bias current of the dri...     

A 3-5 GHz TH-UWB transmitter in 0.18-μm RF CMOS technology

5 mV at a 50 Ω load from a 1.8-V supply, the return loss (S11) at the output port is less than -10 dB, and the chip size is 0.7 × 0.8 mm2, with a power consumption of 12.3 mW.     

A 2 GHz variable gain low noise amplifier in 0.18-μm CMOS

This paper describes a 2 GHz active variable gain low noise amplifier (VGLNA) in a 0.18-μm CMOS process. The VGLNA provides a 50-Ω input impedance and utilizes a tuned load to provide high selectivity. The VGLNA achieves a maximum small signal gain of 16.8 dB and a minimum gain of 4.6 dB with good input return loss. In the high gain and the low gain modes, the NFs are 0.83 dB and 2.8 dB, respectively. The VGLNA’s IIP3 in the high gain mode is 2.13 dBm. The LNA consumes approximately 4 mA of current from a 1.8-V power supply.     

A High-Performance Doubly-Balanced Mixer in 0.35-μm CMOS for Mode-1 MB-OFDM UWB Receivers

A new design of CMOS doubly-balanced down-conversion mixer intended for Multiband Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (MB-OFDM) receiver of UWB group#1 bands and optimized for 0.35-μm technology is presented. The proposed mixer uses the current-bleeding technique in both the driver and switching stages with wideband impedance matching, consisting of a bandpass filter embedding the RF stage. The mixer performances are optimized for the AMS 0.35 μm CMOS process parameters. Over 3.1–4.8 GHz, the circuit drawing 6 mA from 3-V supply, shows a conversion gain of 14.0±1.0 dB, IIP3 of 0±2 dBm, doubly-sideband noise figure of 4.5–4.8 dB, and port-to-port isolation above 61.0 dB.

一种用于3.1–4.8GHz MB-OFDM 超宽带系统的CMOS接收机

本文介绍一种应用于3.1-4.8GHz 多频带正交频分复用超宽带系统的全集成全差分CMOS接收机芯片。在接收机射频前端中应用了一种增益可变的低噪声放大器和合并结构的正交混频器。在I/Q中频通路中则集成了5阶Gm-C结构的有源低通滤波器以及可变增益放大器。芯片通过Jazz 0.18μm RF CMOS工艺流片,含ESD保护电路。该接收机最大电压增益为65dB,增益可调范围为45dB,步长6dB;接收机在3个频段的平均噪声系数为6.4-8.8dB,带内输入三阶交调量(IIP3)为-5.1dBm。芯片面积为2.3平方毫米,在1.8V电压下,包括测试缓冲电路和数字模块在内的总电流为110mA。     

基于0.18μm CMOS工艺的3.1~10.6GHz超宽带LNA设计

本文基于特许0.18μm CMOS工艺,提出了一种新型的低复杂3.1~10.6GHz超宽带LNA电路,它由两级简单的放大器通过级间电感连接构成。第一级放大器使用电阻电流复用结构和双电感退化技术来达到宽带输入匹配和低噪声性能,第二级放大器使用带电感峰值技术的共源级放大器来同时达到高平坦增益和好的宽带性能。测试结果表明,在3.1~10.6GHz频段内,提出的超宽带LNA的最大功率增益为15.6dB,S12为-45dB,输入输出隔离度小于-10dB,噪声系数NF为2.8~4.7dB,在6GHz时的输入三阶交调点IIP3为-7.1dBm。芯片在1.5V电源电压下,消耗的功率为14.1mW,芯片总面积为0.8mm0.9mm。     

5GHz0.18μm CMOS宽带LC VCO

采用0.18μm RF CMOS工艺,设计了一个5GHz的宽带电感电容压控振荡器。该压控振荡器的电路结构选用互补交叉耦合型,采用噪声滤波技术降低相位噪声,并采用开关电容阵列扩展其调谐范围。后仿真结果表明,实现了4.44～5.44GHz的宽调谐。振荡器的电源电压为1.8V,工作电流为2.78mA,版图面积为0.37mm2。     

7.3GHz 0.18μm CMOS注入式锁相环电路

给出一种利用0 .18μm CMOS工艺实现的注入式振荡器辅助锁相环.在1.8V电源电压下,电路工作频率为7.3GHz,功耗为15 7m W,跟踪范围为15 0 MHz,锁定时在1‰(7.3MHz)频率偏移量下的相位噪声为- 97.36 d Bc/Hz     

7.3GHz 0.18μm CMOS注入式锁相环电路

给出一种利用0.18μm CMOS工艺实现的注入式振荡器辅助锁相环.在1.8V电源电压下,电路工作频率为7.3GHz,功耗为157mW,跟踪范围为150MHz,锁定时在1‰(7.3MHz)频率偏移量下的相位噪声为-97.36dBc/Hz.     

OFDM超宽带3.1-4.8GHz CMOS发射机设计

本文介绍一种应用于3.1-4.8GHz 多频带正交频分复用超宽带系统的低功耗射频CMOS发射机芯片的设计和实现。发射机系统主要由电压电流跨导级、正交上变频调制器、有源双转单转换器、输出增益可控功率放大器以及产生正交差分LO信号的除2除法器等模块组成。使用上调制器,双转单及输出放大器分段谐振技术解决3.1-4.8GHz宽带增益平坦度问题;使用源级电阻负反馈镜像跨导解决系统低电压高线性度问题;使用无源电感谐振双转单电路及增益可控放大器进行低功耗设计。测试结果表明,芯片能够提供-10.7到-3.1dBm的功率输出,并且在子带增益平坦度低于3dB;输出三阶交调量最高可达12dBm;不低于30dBc的载波抑制和35dBc以上的边带抑制。芯片采用Jazz 0.18μm射频CMOS工艺流片,包括ESD防护PAD在内芯片总面积为1.74mm2。 在1.8V的电源电压下,芯片总电流为32mA。     

0.18m CMOS工艺3.1～5.2GHz低噪声放大器

基于共源级联放大器的小信号模型,详细分析了宽带放大器的输入阻抗特性和噪声特性。利用MOS晶体管的寄生容性反馈机理,采用TSMC公司标准0.18μmCMOS工艺设计实现了单片集成宽带低噪声放大器,芯片尺寸为0.6mm×1.5mm。测试结果表明,在3.1～5.2GHz频段内,S11<-15dB,S21>12dB,S22<-12dB,噪声系数NF<3.1dB。电源电压为1.8V,功耗为14mW。