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Design of a Direct-conversion Radio Receiver Front-end in CMOS Technology

<p>In this Master's thesis, a direct-conversion receiver front-end has been designed in a 0.18um CMOS technology. </p><p>Direct-conversion receivers (DCR) have obvious advantages over the heterodyne counterpart. Since the intermediate frequency (IF) is zero, the problem of image is circumvented. As a result, no front-end image reject filter is required and the channel selection requires only a low-pass filter, which makes it easy to integrate directly on chip. However, the DCR also suffers from several drawbacks such as extreme sensitivity to DC offsets, 1/f noise, local oscillator (LO) leakage/radiation, front-end nonlinearity and I/Q mismatch. This implies very high demands on the DCR front-end. </p><p>The front-end comprises a low-noise amplifier (LNA) and a mixer. Different LNA and mixer architectures has been studied and from the mentioned inherited problems with direct conversion, one proposal for a solution is a differential source degenerated LNA and a differential harmonic mixer, which has been designed and simulated. </p><p>The LNA has a gain of 12dB, a noise figure of 3.6dB and provides a return loss better than -15dB. The overall noise figure of the signal path is 8dB and the overall IIP3 and IIP2 is -12dBm and 31dBm, respectively.</p>

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:liu-1197
Date January 2002
CreatorsErixon, Mats
PublisherLinköping University, Department of Science and Technology, Institutionen för teknik och naturvetenskap
Source SetsDiVA Archive at Upsalla University
LanguageSwedish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeStudent thesis, text

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