A Low-Power Fullband 802.11a/b/g WLAN Transceiver With On-Chip PA |
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| Authors: | Chen T-M Chiu Y-M Wang C-C Chan K-U Lin Y-H Huang M-C Lu C-H Wang W-S Hu C-S Lee C-C Huang J-Z Chang B-I Yen S-C Lin Y-Y |
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| Affiliation: | Realtek Semicond. Corp., Hsinchu; |
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| Abstract: | A low-power fullband 802.11a/b/g WLAN transceiver in 0.15-mum CMOS technology is described. The zero-IF transceiver achieves a receiver noise figure of 4.4/4 dB for the 2.4-GHz/5-GHz bands, respectively. The corresponding sensitivity at 54-Mb/s operation is -72 dBm for 802.11g and -74 dBm for 802.11a using actual PER measurement. An on-chip PA delivers 20 dBm output P1-dB. A new I/Q compensation scheme is implemented in local oscillator (LO) and an image rejection of better than 52 dB is observed. The transmitter delivers 10/1.5 dBm (2.4-/5-GHz) EVM-compliant output power for a 64-QAM OFDM signal at 54-Mb/s. The power consumption is 117/135 mW (1.8-V) in the receive mode and 570/233.1 mW in the transmit mode for 2.4/5 GHz, respectively. The low power consumption, high integration and robustness (-40 to 140degC) make this transceiver suitable for portable applications |
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