Title :
Design of a Fully-integrated BiCMOS/FBAR Reconfigurable RF Receiver Front-End
Author :
Moreira, C.P. ; Shirakawa, A.A. ; Kerherve, E. ; Pham, J.-M. ; Jarry, P. ; Belot, Didier ; Ancey, P.
Author_Institution :
IXL Lab., Bordeaux Univ.
Abstract :
This article presents guidelines to design a dual-standard fully-integrated RF receiver front-end (RFFE). The designed front-end consists of two system selection integrated FBAR filters, a dual-standard low-noise amplifier (LNA), an active single-to-differential converter (SDC) and I/Q downconversion mixers. The active blocks use the 0.25-mum 60-GHz fT SiGe:C BiCMOS7RF process from STMicroelectronics. The proposed RFFE is targeted to DCS1800 (1805-1880MHz) and W-CDMA-FDD (2110-2170MHz) wireless standards. The availability of integrated FBAR filters in BAW technology, compatible with the used BiCMOS process, enables a very compact solution through a module integration
Keywords :
BiCMOS integrated circuits; Ge-Si alloys; UHF amplifiers; UHF filters; UHF integrated circuits; UHF mixers; carbon; convertors; integrated circuit design; radio receivers; 0.25 micron; 1805 to 1880 MHz; 2110 to 2170 MHz; 60 GHz; BiCMOS7RF process; DCS1800 wireless standards; FBAR reconfigurable RF receiver front-end; I/Q downconversion mixers; SiGe:C; W-CDMA-FDD wireless standards; bulk acoustic wave technology; dual-standard low-noise amplifier; fully-integrated BiCMOS RF receiver front-end; integrated FBAR filters; single-to-differential converter; BiCMOS integrated circuits; Film bulk acoustic resonators; Filters; Guidelines; Image converters; Integrated circuit technology; Low-noise amplifiers; Multiaccess communication; Radio frequency; Very large scale integration; BAW technology; Design; FBAR integrated filters; Performance; RF receiver front-end; Theory; direct conversion receiver architecture; dual-standard operation; low noise amplifier;
Conference_Titel :
Integrated Circuits and Systems Design, 18th Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Florianopolis
Print_ISBN :
1-59593-174-0
DOI :
10.1109/SBCCI.2005.4286846
