A 100 MS/sec, 8th-order quadrature Sigma-Delta ADC for complex-IF signal digitization in a wideband-IF sampling receiver

Author

Berndt, Hendrik ; Richter, Rudolf ; Jentschel, H.-J.

Author_Institution

Dresden Univ. of Technol., Germany

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

21-24 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

669

Abstract

The paper presents a 100 MS/sec fully differential quadrature Sigma-Delta ADC, implemented on a standard 0.35 μm CMOS process for application in wideband-IF sampling receivers. The circuit performs complex-IF signal digitization as well as IF-to-Baseband frequency conversion of multistandard communication channels. It demonstrates the feasibility of digitizing quadrature IF-signals with sampling rates in the range of 100 MHz and an IF set to 3/4 of the sampling frequency. The ADC architecture is based on a quadrature IF sampling and mixing topology followed by I/Q lowpass Sigma-Delta modulators performing spectrally shaped signal quantization at baseband. The prototyped ASIC is aimed for application in multi-mode GSM/WCDMA mobile terminals with channel bandwidths of 200 kHz and 3.84 MHz, respectively. Simulation results for both, UTRA-FDD and GSM are given.

Keywords

CMOS digital integrated circuits; application specific integrated circuits; broadband networks; cellular radio; code division multiple access; modulators; quantisation (signal); sigma-delta modulation; telecommunication channels; 0.35 micron; 100 MHz; 200 kHz; 3.84 MHz; ADC architecture; CDMA mobile; CMOS process; I/Q lowpass sigma-delta modulators; IF-to-baseband frequency conversion; UTRA-FDD; analog-to-digital conversion; complex-IF signal digitization; differential quadrature sigma-delta ADC; intermediate frequency; multimode GSM; multistandard communication channels; prototyped ASIC; quadrature IF sampling; quadrature IF-signals; signal quantization; wideband-IF sampling receiver;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

ASIC, 2003. Proceedings. 5th International Conference on

ISSN

1523-553X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7889-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICASIC.2003.1277637

Filename

1277637