• DocumentCode
    1834585
  • Title

    A 130M to 1GHz digitally tunable RF LC-tracking filter for CMOS RF receivers

  • Author

    Kanazawa, Yusuke ; Fujimoto, Yoshihisa ; Iizuka, Kunihiko

  • Author_Institution
    Electron. Components & Device Dev. Group, Sharp Corp., Tenri
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    3-5 Nov. 2008
  • Firstpage
    469
  • Lastpage
    472
  • Abstract
    A widely tunable RF LC-tracking filter is developed for tackling the odd harmonic mixing problem in wideband CMOS RF receivers. The filter is composed of two cascaded RLC tanks, where proposed programmable transconductor stages with built-in LPF are used. IIP3 of 127.7 dBmuV and input-referred noise of 20.1 dBmuV over signal band of 5.6 MHz are confirmed by measurements. The chip, fabricated in 0.18 mum CMOS process, occupies 2.8 mm2 and draws 34-120mA from a 1.8V supply.
  • Keywords
    CMOS integrated circuits; radio receivers; radiofrequency filters; tracking filters; current 34 mA to 120 mA; frequency 5.6 MHz; input-referred noise; odd harmonic mixing; programmable transconductor; tunable RF LC-tracking filter; voltage 1.8 V; wideband CMOS RF receivers; Active filters; Band pass filters; Digital filters; MIM capacitors; Power harmonic filters; Radio frequency; Receivers; Resistors; Transconductors; Tuning;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2008. A-SSCC '08. IEEE Asian
  • Conference_Location
    Fukuoka
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2604-1
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2605-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ASSCC.2008.4708829
  • Filename
    4708829