Design of carrier-aggregated modulator for LTE-advanced

Author

Feng-Hsu Chung ; Jian-Yu Li ; Chun-Hsiang Chi ; Chang-Ming Lai ; Chia-Hao Tu ; Ping-Hsun Wu ; Yu-Ju Chuang

Author_Institution

Inf. & Commun. Res. Labs., ITRI, Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2014

fDate

1-6 June 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

LTE-Advanced uses carrier aggregation (CA) of multiple component carriers (CCs) to achieve high-bandwidth transmission. To fulfill such technology, the novel carrier-aggregated modulator structure is proposed. In this work, the carrier-aggregated modulator is implemented in 0.18 μm CMOS technology and tested with two 10 MHz LTE-Advanced Release 10 signals to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed architecture in both the intra-band and inter-band CA. The measured output spectrum and EVM meet the LTE-Advanced requirements.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; Long Term Evolution; modulation; modulators; radio spectrum management; CA; CC; CMOS technology; EVM; LTE-Advanced; carrier-aggregated modulator structure; frequency 10 MHz; high-bandwidth transmission; interband architecture; intraband architecture; multiple component carrier; size 0.18 mum; Abstracts; CMOS integrated circuits; CMOS technology; Frequency conversion; Programmable logic arrays; Radio access networks; Switches; Carrier aggregation (CA); Component carriers (CCs); LTE-Advanced; modulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Microwave Symposium (IMS), 2014 IEEE MTT-S International

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MWSYM.2014.6848657

Filename

6848657