• DocumentCode
    3650590
  • Title

    A 6 Ghz input bandwidth 2 Vpp-diff input range 6.4 GS/s track-and-hold circuit in 0.25 μm BiCMOS

  • Author

    Matthias Buck;Markus Grazing;Manfred Berroth;Michael Epp;Sébastien Chartier

  • Author_Institution
    Institute of Electrical and Optical Communications Engineering, University of Stuttgart, Germany
  • fYear
    2013
  • Firstpage
    159
  • Lastpage
    162
  • Abstract
    A 0.25 μm SiGe-BiCMOS 6.4 GS/s track-and-hold circuit with an input bandwidth exceeding 6 GHz and up to 2 Vpp-diff input voltage range applies a hold-mode muted preamplifier that reduces signal feedthrough and improves linearity. The track-and-hold circuit provides more than 59 dBc hold-mode SFDR3 for 1.0 to 6.0 GHz 1 Vpp-diff input signals at 6.4 GS/s, outperforming the best commercial THs operated at only 4 GS/s.
  • Keywords
    "Radar tracking","Bandwidth","Linearity","Switches","Preamplifiers","Receivers","Silicon germanium"
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium (RFIC), 2013 IEEE
  • ISSN
    1529-2517
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-6059-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    2375-0995
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/RFIC.2013.6569549
  • Filename
    6569549