A wide-band front-end for DVB-H tuner receptions

Author

Ming, Gu ; Zhang, Xuelian ; Hu, Xueqing ; Hua, Xu ; Ma, Desheng ; Yin, Shi ; Dai, Fa Foster

Author_Institution

Suzhou-CAS Semicond. Integrated Technol. Res. Center, Suzhou, China

fYear

2008

fDate

20-23 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1464

Lastpage

1467

Abstract

A wide-band variable-gain LNA, RF VGA and a mixer implemented in 50 GHz 0.5 Â¿m SiGe BiCMOS technology for DVB-H tuner front-end is presented. The LNA uses the distribution structure with a fixed gain stage to get 20 dB variable gain and low noise. The LNA achieves 600 MHz bandwidth with less than 6 dB noise figure and +3-dBm of IIP3 at max gain. The RF VGA is carefully designed to get 30 dB variable gain with 5 dB per step and 16-dBm IIP3 with max gain. Two mixers for I/Q signals are designed to get 22 dBm of IIP3. The chip consumes 150 mW power with 3.3-V supply.

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; circuit tuning; digital video broadcasting; field effect MIMIC; integrated circuit design; low noise amplifiers; millimetre wave amplifiers; millimetre wave mixers; BiCMOS technology; DVB-H tuner reception; I/Q signals; RF VGA; SiGe; frequency 50 GHz; frequency 600 MHz; gain 20 dB; gain 30 dB; mixer implementation; power 150 mW; size 0.5 mum; variable-gain LNA; voltage 3.3 V; wide-band front-end; Bandwidth; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Digital video broadcasting; Gain; Germanium silicon alloys; Noise figure; Radio frequency; Silicon germanium; Tuners; Wideband; LNA; RF VGA; SiGe; linearity; mixer; noise figure; wide band;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State and Integrated-Circuit Technology, 2008. ICSICT 2008. 9th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2185-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2186-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSICT.2008.4734842

Filename

4734842