A versatile receiver IC supporting WCDMA, CDMA and AMPS cellular handset applications

Author

Rampmeier, K. ; Agarwal, B. ; Mudge, P. ; Yates, D. ; Robinson, T.

Author_Institution

Conexant Syst. Inc., Newport Beach, CA, USA

fYear

2001

fDate

20-22 May 2001

Firstpage

21

Lastpage

24

Abstract

This paper presents a single chip, superhetrodyne receiver IC capable of supporting dual-band, tri-mode handsets. Supported standards include W-CDMA, CDMA (IS-98-C) and AMPS. The receiver consists of multistep gain LNAs, high performance RF mixers with adjustable linearity, a variable gain amplifier, on chip VCO cores, and an IQ downconverter. The IC is fabricated in a 35 GHz f/sub t/ Si BiCMOS process and packaged into a 48 pin 7 mm/spl times/7 mm land grid array (RF-LGA/sup TM/) chipscale package.

Keywords

BiCMOS analogue integrated circuits; UHF integrated circuits; cellular radio; code division multiple access; elemental semiconductors; silicon; superheterodyne receivers; telephone sets; 35 GHz; 7 mm; AMPS; CDMA application; IQ downconverter; IS-98-C; RF mixers; RF-LGA CSP; Si; Si BiCMOS process; WCDMA; adjustable mixer linearity; cellular handset applications; chipscale package; dual-band tri-mode handsets; land grid array CSP; multistep gain LNAs; onchip VCO cores; receiver IC; superhetrodyne receiver; variable gain amplifier; wideband CDMA; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Dual band; Integrated circuit packaging; Linearity; Multiaccess communication; Performance gain; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers; Telephone sets; Voltage-controlled oscillators;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, 2001. Digest of Papers. 2001 IEEE

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ, USA

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6601-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2001.935633

Filename

935633