GaAs MMIC RF front end for PCS applications at 1.9 GHz

Author

McGrath, Finbarr J. ; Sullivan, Patrick O. ; Heaney, Eugene ; Dawe, Geoff ; Onge, Gary St ; Jackson, Karen ; Kermarrec, Christian ; Fahey, Bill

Author_Institution

M/A-Com IC Design Center, Lowell, MA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

28-30 Sep 1993

Firstpage

12

Lastpage

16

Abstract

This paper will present a generic digital transceiver system and discuss factors involved in the partition and development of an ASIC solution. The results of such a development will be discussed. Included is an ultra-low power consumption LNA (1.7 dB NF @ 3 V, 2 mA), a high power added efficiency PA chain (44% @ 0.25 W), a low distortion T/R switch (OIP3>44 dBm with two 0.25 W tones), precise adaptive power control with a digital attenuator and DC power efficient up and down converter functions

Keywords

III-V semiconductors; MMIC; application specific integrated circuits; gallium arsenide; land mobile radio; personal communication networks; transceivers; 1.9 GHz; ASIC; DC power efficiency; GaAs; GaAs MMIC RF front end; PCS; adaptive power control; digital attenuator; digital transceiver; down converter; high power added efficiency PA chain; low distortion T/R switch; ultra-low power consumption LNA; up converter; Application specific integrated circuits; Energy consumption; Gallium arsenide; MMICs; Noise measurement; Personal communication networks; Programmable control; Radio frequency; Switches; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

WESCON/'93. Conference Record,

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

1095-791X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9970-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WESCON.1993.488401

Filename

488401