A 1.57-GHz RF front-end for triple conversion GPS receiver

Author

Piazza, Francesco ; Huang, Qiuting

Author_Institution

Integrated Syst. Lab., Swiss Fed. Inst. of Technol., Zurich, Switzerland

Volume

33

Issue

2

fYear

1998

fDate

2/1/1998 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

202

Lastpage

209

Abstract

A low-power, 1.57 GHz RF front-end for a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver has been designed in a 1.0 μm BiCMOS technology. It consists of a low noise amplifier with 15 dB of gain, a single balanced mixer with 6.3 mS of conversion g_m, a Colpitts LC local oscillator, and an emitter coupled logic (ECL) divide-by-eight prescaler. This front-end has a single sideband (SSB) noise figure of 8.1 dB and is part of a triple conversion superheterodyne receiver whose IF frequencies are 179, 4.7, and 1.05 MHz. Low power consumption has been achieved, with 10.5 mA at 3 V supply voltage for the front-end, while the complete receiver is expected to draw about 12 mA

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Global Positioning System; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; mobile communication; radio receivers; superheterodyne receivers; 1 micron; 1.05 to 179 MHz; 1.57 GHz; 10.5 mA; 12 mA; 15 dB; 3 V; 6.3 mS; 8.1 dB; BiCMOS technology; Colpitts LC local oscillator; ECL divide-by-eight prescaler; GPS receiver; Global Positioning System receiver; SSB noise figure; emitter coupled logic; low noise amplifier; low-power RF front-end; single balanced mixer; superheterodyne receiver; triple conversion GPS receiver; Amplitude modulation; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Gain; Global Positioning System; Local oscillators; Logic; Low-noise amplifiers; Mixers; Radio frequency; Radiofrequency amplifiers;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9200

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/4.658621

Filename

658621