A 20mw 3.24mm2 fully integrated gps radio for cell-phones

Author

Delia Torre, V. ; Conta, M. ; Chokkalingam, R. ; Cusmai, G. ; Rossi, P. ; Svelto, F.

Author_Institution

RFDomus, Newport Beach, CA

fYear

2006

fDate

6-9 Feb. 2006

Firstpage

1902

Lastpage

1911

Abstract

A GPS receiver that can coexist with cellular transceivers is implemented in a 0.18mum SiGe BiCMOS technology and occupies 3.24mm ². The device integrates polyphase filters, VGA, ADCs, fractional-N synthesizer, LNA, and mixers, minimizing desensitization and reciprocal mixing. The receiver consumes 20mW from a 1.8V supply and has 1dB gain desensitization with a -8dBm 1.9GHz blocker

Keywords

BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; Global Positioning System; analogue-digital conversion; frequency synthesizers; low noise amplifiers; mobile handsets; radio receivers; transceivers; 0.18 micron; 1 dB; 1.8 V; 1.9 GHz; 20 mW; A/D converters; BiCMOS technology; GPS radio; GPS receiver; SiGe; cell phones; cellular transceivers; fractional-N synthesizer; global positioning system; low noise amplifiers; polyphase filters; reciprocal mixing; Cellular phones; Energy consumption; Filtering; Filters; Global Positioning System; Integrated circuit noise; Radio frequency; Radio transmitters; Receivers; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2006. ISSCC 2006. Digest of Technical Papers. IEEE International

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

ISSN

0193-6530

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0079-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISSCC.2006.1696248

Filename

1696248