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High Performance LNAs and Mixers for Direct Conversion Receivers in BiCMOS and CMOS Technologies

TIRED, TOBIAS LU (2012)
Abstract
The trend in cellular chipset design today is to incorporate support for a larger number of frequency bands for each new chipset generation. If the chipset also supports receiver diversity two low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are required for each frequency band. This is however associated with an increase of off-chip components, i.e. matching components for the LNA inputs, as well as complex routing of the RF input signals. If balanced LNAs are implemented the routing complexity is further increased. The first presented work in this thesis is a novel multiband low noise single ended LNA and mixer architecture. The mixer has a novel feedback loop suppressing both second order distortion as well as DC-offset. The performance, verified by Monte... (More)
The trend in cellular chipset design today is to incorporate support for a larger number of frequency bands for each new chipset generation. If the chipset also supports receiver diversity two low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are required for each frequency band. This is however associated with an increase of off-chip components, i.e. matching components for the LNA inputs, as well as complex routing of the RF input signals. If balanced LNAs are implemented the routing complexity is further increased. The first presented work in this thesis is a novel multiband low noise single ended LNA and mixer architecture. The mixer has a novel feedback loop suppressing both second order distortion as well as DC-offset. The performance, verified by Monte Carlo simulations, is sufficient for a WCDMA application. The second presented work is a single ended multiband LNA with programmable integrated matching. The LNA is connected to an on-chip tunable balun generating differential RF signals for a differential mixer. The combination of the narrow band input matching and narrow band balun of the presented LNA is beneficial for suppressing third harmonic downconversion of a WLAN interferer. The single ended architecture has great advantages regarding PCB routing of the RF input signals but is on the other hand more sensitive to common mode interferers, e.g. ground, supply and substrate noise. An analysis of direct conversion receiver requirements is presented together with an overview of different LNA and mixer architectures in both BiCMOS and CMOS technology. (Less)
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  abstract     = {{The trend in cellular chipset design today is to incorporate support for a larger number of frequency bands for each new chipset generation. If the chipset also supports receiver diversity two low noise amplifiers (LNAs) are required for each frequency band. This is however associated with an increase of off-chip components, i.e. matching components for the LNA inputs, as well as complex routing of the RF input signals. If balanced LNAs are implemented the routing complexity is further increased. The first presented work in this thesis is a novel multiband low noise single ended LNA and mixer architecture. The mixer has a novel feedback loop suppressing both second order distortion as well as DC-offset. The performance, verified by Monte Carlo simulations, is sufficient for a WCDMA application. The second presented work is a single ended multiband LNA with programmable integrated matching. The LNA is connected to an on-chip tunable balun generating differential RF signals for a differential mixer. The combination of the narrow band input matching and narrow band balun of the presented LNA is beneficial for suppressing third harmonic downconversion of a WLAN interferer. The single ended architecture has great advantages regarding PCB routing of the RF input signals but is on the other hand more sensitive to common mode interferers, e.g. ground, supply and substrate noise. An analysis of direct conversion receiver requirements is presented together with an overview of different LNA and mixer architectures in both BiCMOS and CMOS technology.}},
  author       = {{TIRED, TOBIAS}},
  isbn         = {{978-91-7473-293-1}},
  keywords     = {{LNA, mixer, direct conversion receiver}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{03}},
  note         = {{Licentiate Thesis}},
  title        = {{High Performance LNAs and Mixers for Direct Conversion Receivers in BiCMOS and CMOS Technologies}},
  url          = {{https://lup.lub.lu.se/search/files/15511565/EIT_Licentiate_Thesis_1200304.pdf}},
  year         = {{2012}},
}