High dynamic range 60 MHz powerline front-end IC |
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| Authors: | Bauwelinck J De Backer E Melange C Matei E Ossieur P Qiu XZ Vandewege J Horvath S |
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| Affiliation: | LNTEC/IMEC Ghent Pietersnieuwstraat 41, Ghent; |
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| Abstract: | Presented for the first time, is a novel broadband powerline front-end realised in 0.25 mum SiGe BiCMOS with superior performance. The frequency range of the transmitter (TX) and the direct conversion receiver (RX) exceeds 60 MHz with a very wide dynamic range up to 99.5 dB for the lowest channel bandwidth. The integrated IF filter is tunable from 1 up to 8 MHz. The measured input-referred noise of the TX with low third intermodulation distortion (IMD3) is -140 and 144.5 dBm/Hz for the RX. |
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