Sampled-and-Hold Based Automatic Calibration Modulator for WLAN Transmitter

Author

Wang, Chao-Shiun ; Wang, Chorng-Kuang

Author_Institution

Graduate Inst. of Electron. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei

fYear

2005

fDate

1-3 Nov. 2005

Firstpage

77

Lastpage

80

Abstract

This paper presents an automatic calibration circuit to correct the I/Q imbalance and DC offset in the modulator of a WLAN transmitter. The impairments are estimated and compensated by a sampled-and-hold negative feedback circuits. The circuit architecture is controlled by an on chip 12 steps state machine. After the calibration, the LO leakage at the modulator output can be suppressed more than 50dB. The side band unwanted signal also can be eliminated 45dB at least. The proposed self-calibrated modulator with quadrature LO generator is implemented in 0.25 mum 1P5M mixed-mode CMOS process. The chip area is 1.2mm times 1.7mm. The total power dissipates 17 mW at 1.1~1.3 GHz from a single 2.5V supply voltage

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; calibration; circuit feedback; mixed analogue-digital integrated circuits; modulators; sample and hold circuits; transmitters; wireless LAN; 0.25 micron; 1.2 mm; 1.7 mm; 17 mW; 2.5 V; DC offset; I/Q imbalance; LO leakage; WLAN transmitter; mixed-mode CMOS process; quadrature LO generator; sampled-and-hold based automatic calibration modulator; sampled-and-hold negative feedback circuits; self-calibrated modulator; side band unwanted signal; Baseband; CMOS process; Calibration; Circuits; Dual band; Phase modulation; Signal design; Signal generators; Transmitters; Wireless LAN; IEEE 802.11/a/b/g; Modulator; Sampled-and-Hold Calibration; Transmitter; WLAN;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Asian Solid-State Circuits Conference, 2005

Conference_Location

Hsinchu

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9162-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9163-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ASSCC.2005.251811

Filename

4017535