An interference-robust receiver for ultra-wideband radio in SiGe BiCMOS technology

Raf Roovers; Domine M.W. Leenaerts; Jos Bergervoet; Kundur S. Harish; Remco C.H. van de Beek; Gerard van der Weide; Helen Waite; Yifeng Zhang; Sudhir Aggarwal; Charles Razzell

doi:10.1109/JSSC.2005.857431

An interference-robust receiver for ultra-wideband radio in SiGe BiCMOS technology

Raf Roovers
, Domine M.W. Leenaerts (Corresponding author)
, Jos Bergervoet
, Kundur S. Harish
, Remco C.H. van de Beek
, Gerard van der Weide
, Helen Waite
, Yifeng Zhang
, Sudhir Aggarwal
, Charles Razzell

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Abstract

A 3.1-4.8 GHz ultra-wideband (UWB) receiver front-end for high data rate, Fifteenshort-range communication is presented. The receiver, based on the Multi Band OFDM Alliance (MBOA) standard proposal, consists of a zero-IF receive chain and an ultra-fast frequency-hopping synthesizer. The combination of high-linearity RF circuits, aggressive baseband filtering and low local oscillator spurs from the synthesizer results in an interference-robust receiver, having the ability to co-exist with systems operating in the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz ISM bands. The packaged device shows an overall noise figure of 4.5 dB and has a measured input IP3 of -6 dBm and input IP2 of +25 dBm. Spurious tones generated by the synthesizer are below -45 dBc and -50 dBc in the 2.4-GHz and 5-GHz ISM bands, respectively. The hopping speed is well below the required 9.5 ns. The complete receive chain has been realized in a 0.25 μm BiCMOS technology and draws 78 mA from a 2.5-V supply.

Original language	English
Article number	1546232
Pages (from-to)	2563-2572
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume	40
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/JSSC.2005.857431
Publication status	Published - Dec 2005
Externally published	Yes

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
Kundur S. Harish was born in Madras (now Chennai), India. He received the B.Tech and M.Tech degrees from the Indian Institutes of Technology Madras and Delhi, respectively.

Funding

Kundur S. Harish was born in Madras (now Chennai), India. He received the B.Tech and M.Tech degrees from the Indian Institutes of Technology Madras and Delhi, respectively.

Keywords

BiCMOS
Filter
LNA
RF
SiGe
Synthesizer
Ultra-wideband
Zero-IF

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