A Blocker-Tolerant, Noise-Cancelling Receiver Suitable for Wideband Wireless Applications

作者:Murphy, David*; Darabi, Hooman; Abidi, Asad; Hafez, Amr A.; Mirzaei, Ahmad; Mikhemar, Mohyee; Chang, Mau-Chung Frank
来源:IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, 2012, 47(12): 2943-2963.
DOI:10.1109/JSSC.2012.2217832

摘要

A new wideband receiver architecture is proposed that employs two separate passive-mixer-based downconversion paths, which enables noise cancelling, but avoids voltage gain at blocker frequencies. This approach significantly relaxes the trade-off between noise, out-of-band linearity and wideband operation. The resulting prototype in 40 nm is functional from 80 MHz to 2.7 GHz and achieves a 2 dB noise figure, which only degrades to 4.1 dB in the presence of a 0 dBm blocker.

  • 出版日期2012-12