An FM transmitter becomes the new feature in recent portable electronic
development. A low power, integrable FM transmitter filter IC is required to meet the
demand of FM transmitting feature. A low pass filter using harmonic rejection technique
along with a low power class-AB output buffer is designed to meet the current market
requirements on the FM transmitter chip.
A harmonic rejection filter is designed to filter FM square wave signal from
70MHz to 110MHz into FM sine wave signal. Based on Fourier series, the harmonic
rejection technique adds the phase shifted square waves to achieve better THD and less
high frequency harmonics. The phase shifting is realized through a frequency divider,
and the summation is implemented through a current summation circuit. A RC low pass
filter with automatic tuning is designed to further attenuate unwanted harmonics. In this
work, the filter's post layout simulation shows -53dB THD and harmonics above
800MHz attenuation of -99dB. The power consumption of the filter is less than 0.7mW.
Output buffer stage is implemented through a resistor degenerated transconductor
and a class-AB amplifier. Feedforward frequency compensation is applied to compensate the output class-AB stage, which extends the amplifier's operating
bandwidth. A fully balanced class-AB driver is proposed to unleash the driving
capability of common source output transistors. The output buffer reaches -43dB THD at
110MHz with 0.63Vpp output swing and drives 1mW into 50 load. The power
consumption of the output buffer is 7.25mW.
By using harmonic rejection technique, this work realizes the 70MHz-110MHz
FM carrier filtering using TSMC 0.18um nominal process. Above 800MHz harmonics
are attenuated to below -95dB. With 1.2V supply, the total power consumption including
output buffer is 7.95mW. The total die area is 0.946mm2.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2010-05-7921 |
| Date | 2010 May 1900 |
| Creators | Huang, Shan |
| Contributors | Karsilayan, Aydin I. |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
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