A WLAN and bluetooth combo transceiver with integrated WLAN power amplifier, transmit-receive switch and WLAN/bluetooth shared low noise amplifier

Author

Winoto, Renaldi ; He, Ming ; Lu, Yuan ; Signoff, David ; Chan, Edwin ; Lin, Chi-Hung ; Loeb, Wayne ; Park, Jinho ; Lin, Li

Author_Institution

Marvell Semicond., Santa Clara, CA, USA

fYear

2012

fDate

17-19 June 2012

Firstpage

395

Lastpage

398

Abstract

A front-end circuit of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) containing an IEEE 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN (WLAN) and a Bluetooth transceiver is presented. This SoC integrates a WLAN power amplifier (PA), a transmit-receive switch (T/R switch), a process and temperature insensitive power detector, and a low-noise amplifier (LNA) that is shared between WLAN and Bluetooth. The class AB power amplifier has a maximum saturated output power of +29dBm, while still meeting -28dB EVM for QAM64 modulation at an output power of +21dBm. The shared low-noise amplifier has a noise figure of 3.3dB. The presented solution significantly reduces the overall Bill-of-Materials (BOM) for the combo WLAN and Bluetooth transceivers.

Keywords

Bluetooth; low noise amplifiers; power amplifiers; quadrature amplitude modulation; system-on-chip; wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11b wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11g wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11n wireless LAN; QAM64 modulation; SoC; T-R switch; WLAN PA; WLAN-Bluetooth combo transceiver; WLAN-Bluetooth shared low-noise amplifier; bill-of-materials; class-AB power amplifier; front-end circuit; integrated WLAN power amplifier; process-insensitive power detector; system-on-chip; temperature-insensitive power detector; transmit-receive switch; Bluetooth; Power amplifiers; Power generation; Switches; System-on-a-chip; Transceivers; Wireless LAN; AM-PM compensation; Class AB Power Amplifier; T/R switch; power detector; shared LNA;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Montreal, QC

ISSN

1529-2517

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0413-9

Electronic_ISBN

1529-2517

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RFIC.2012.6242307

Filename

6242307