Multiband 0.25-μm CMOS base station chips for indirect and direct conversion receivers

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2106-2115

  Boric Lubecke, Olga ^a   Lin, Jenshan ^b   Verma, Ashok ^a   Lo, Ivy ^a   Lubecke, Victor M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Base station; CMOS integrated circuits; DCS 1800; Direct conversion; Heterodyne; PCS1900; Receiver; Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS)

Indexed keywords

BASE STATIONS; CMOS INTEGRATED CIRCUITS; HETERODYNING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NOISE FIGURE; RADIO RECEIVERS; RECEIVERS (CONTAINERS); SPECIFICATIONS;

DCS 1800; DIRECT CONVERSION; DIRECT CONVERSION RECEIVERS; DIRECT-CONVERSION ARCHITECTURE; PCS1900; SECOND-ORDER INPUT INTERCEPT POINTS; THIRD-ORDER INPUT INTERCEPT POINTS; UNIVERSAL MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

LOW NOISE AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 50549103275     PISSN: 10577122     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCSI.2008.918217     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Digital Cellular Telecommunications System (Phase 2 +); Radio Transmission and Reception, GSM 05.05 version 5.5.1 (ETS 300 910, 1998.
2. Technical Specification Group Radio Access Networks; UTRA (BS) FDD; Radio Transmission and Reception, 3rd Generation Partnership Project 3GPP TS25.104, V4.1.0, 2000.
3. P. Gould, J. Lin, O. Boric-Lubecke, C. Zelley, Y.-J. Chen, and R.-H. Yan, "0.25μm BiCMOS receivers for normal and micro GSM900 and DCS1800 base stations," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 50, no. 1, pp. 369-376, Jan. 2002.
4. H. D. Wohlmuth and W. Simburger, "A high-IP3 RF receiver chip set for mobile radio base stations up to 2 GHz," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 7, pp. 1132-1137, Jul. 2001.
5. O. Boric-Lubecke, J. Lin, and P. Gould, "DCS1800 base station receiver integrated in 0.25-μm CMOS," in IEEE MTT-S Int. Microw. Symp. Dig. Seattle, WA, Jun. 2002, pp. 1049-1052.
6. U. Karthaus, F. Gruson, G. Bergmann, and A. Pascht, "Improved four-channel direct-conversion SiGe receiver IC for UMTS base stations," IEEE Microw. Wireless Comport. Lett., vol. 14, pp. 377-379, Aug. 2004.
7. A. Parssinen, J. Jussila, J. Ryynanen, L. Sumanen, and K. Halonen, "A 2-GHz wide-band direct conversion receiver for WCDMA applications," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 34, no. 12, pp. 1893-1903, Dec. 1999.
8. J. Ryynanen, M. Hotti, V. Saari, J. Jussila, A. Malinen, L. Sumanen, T. Tikka, and K. A. I. Halonen, "WCDMA multicarrier receiver for bases-station applications," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 41, no. 7, pp. 1542-1550, Jul. 2006.
9. T. Bitzer, U. Karthaus, A. Pascht, and K. Weese, "Realization of a SiGe-HBT direct down conversion receiver for UMTS base stations," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Electron Dev. Microw. Opto-Electron. Appl., Manchester, U.K., Nov. 2002, pp. 83-88.
10. J. Ryynanen, K. Kivekas, J. Jussila, A. Parssinen, and K. A. I. Halonen, "A dual-band RF front-end for WCDMA and GSM applications," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 36, no. 8, pp. 1198-1204, Aug. 2001.
11. J. Ryynanen, K. Kivekas, J. Jussila, L. Sumanen, A. Parssinen, and K. A. I. Halonen, "A single-chip multimode receiver for GSM900, DCS 1800, PCS 1900, and WCDMA," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 38, no. 4, pp. 594-602, Apr. 2003.
12. A. A. Abidi, "Direct-conversion radio transceivers for digital communications," IEEE J. Solid-State Circuits, vol. 30, pp. 1399-1410, Dec. 1995.
13. B. Razavi, "Design considerations for direct-conversion receivers," IEEE Trans. Circuits Syst. II, Analog Digit. Signal Process., vol. 44, pp. 428-435, Jun. 1997.
14. C. Takahashi et al., "A 1.9 GHz Si direct conversion receiver IC for QPSK modulation systems," in IEEE ISSCC Dig. Tech. Papers, Feb. 1995, pp. 138-139.
15. H. Holma and A. Toskala, WCDMA for UMTS-Radio Access for Third Generation of Mobile Communications, Revised ed. : John Wiley&Sons, 2001.
16. Technical Specifications Group GSM/EDGE Radio Access Network; Radio Transmission and Reception, GSM 05.05 version 8.20.0, 2005.
17. O. Boric-Lubecke, J. Lin, P. Gould, and M. Kermali, "RFICs challenges for third generation wireless systems," in Proc. SPIE Int. Symp. Micro/MEMS, Adelaide, Australia, Dec. 2001.
18. O. Jensen, T. Kolding, C. Iversen, S. Laursen, R. Reynisson, J. Mikkelsen, E. Pedersen, M. Jenner, and T. Larsen, "RF receiver requirements for 3G W-CDMA mobile equipment," Microw. J., vol. 43, no. 2, pp. 22-46, Feb. 2000.
19. L. E. Larson, "Integrated circuit technology options for RFICs-present status and future directions," IEEE J. Solid State Circuits, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 387-399, Mar. 1998.
20. N. Suematsu, M. Ono, S. Kubo, M. Uesugi, and K. Hasegawa, "Intermodulation distortion of low noise silicon BJT and MOSFET fabricated in BiCMOS process," IEICE Trans. on Electronics, vol. E82-C, pp. 692-698, May 1999.
21. S. Maas, Microwave Mixers. Norwood, MA: Artech House, 1993.
22. O. Boric-Lubecke, J. Lin, T. Ivanov, and Y. H. Ran, "Si-MMIC BiCMOS low-noise, high linearity amplifiers for base station applications," in Proc. 2000 Asia-Pacific Microw. Conf., Sydney, Australia, Dec. 2000, pp. 181-184.
23. O. Boric-Lubecke, J. Lin, and P. Gould, "25 dBm OIP3 low-noise amplifiers fully integrated in 0.25-μm CMOS," in 2Proc. 002 Asia-Pacific Microw. Conf., Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 2002.
24. P. Gould, C. Zelley, and J. Lin, "CMOS resistive ring mixer MMICs for GSM 900 and DCS 1800 base station applications," in. Proc. IEEE MTT-S Intr. Microwave Symp, Boston, MA, Jun. 2000, pp. 521-524.
25. M. Margraf and G. Boeck, "Analysis and modeling of low-frequency noise in resistive FET mixers," IEEE Trans. Microw. Theory Tech., vol. 52, no. 7, pp. 1709-1718, Jul. 2004.
26. W. Redman-White and D. M. W. Leenaerts, "1/f noise in passive CMOS mixers for low and zero IF integrated receivers," in Proc. 27th Eur. Solid-State Circuits Conf., Sep. 2001, pp. 41-44.
27. "System data models," in Advanced Design System 2004A Documentation - System Models. Santa Clara, CA: Agilent Technologies, 2004, ch. 8.
28. B. Razavi, RF Microelectronics. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.