A polyphase filter based on CMOS inverters
Tillman, Fredrik and Sjöland, Henrik LU
(2007)
In Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
50(1).
p.7-12
- Abstract
- A new idea for generation of quadrature signals on chip is presented. The topology is based on a passive RC polyphase filter, where the resistive parts are made active by using inverters. The active filter combines quadrature generation, isolation, and gain without losing quadrature performance compared to a regular RC polyphase filter. The filter technique is demonstrated in a 10 GHz front-end application where a broadband VCO, having a tuning range of 1.44 GHz, drives an active polyphase filter to generate quadrature LO signals. According to simulations the quadrature phase error shows a typical tuned behavior and stays below 0.8 degrees for the complete tuning range. Since the signal amplitude is high throughout the filter the noise is... (More)
- A new idea for generation of quadrature signals on chip is presented. The topology is based on a passive RC polyphase filter, where the resistive parts are made active by using inverters. The active filter combines quadrature generation, isolation, and gain without losing quadrature performance compared to a regular RC polyphase filter. The filter technique is demonstrated in a 10 GHz front-end application where a broadband VCO, having a tuning range of 1.44 GHz, drives an active polyphase filter to generate quadrature LO signals. According to simulations the quadrature phase error shows a typical tuned behavior and stays below 0.8 degrees for the complete tuning range. Since the signal amplitude is high throughout the filter the noise is low, below 160 dBc/Hz at 10 MHz offset. The high amplitude also reduces the need for high gain tuned buffers, thereby enabling significant reductions in chip area. (Less)
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- Tillman, Fredrik
and Sjöland, Henrik
LU
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- 2007
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- quadrature generation, CMOS, polyphase filter
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- Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
- volume
- 50
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 7 - 12
- publisher
- Springer
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- wos:000242611500002
- scopus:33845472634
- ISSN
- 0925-1030
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10470-006-9152-z
- language
- English
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