K. Huehne, S. Bader, D. Coffing, J. Durec, R. Hester, D. Lovelace, E. Main, P. Ovalle, Ruxi Tang, D. Welty, R. Williams, K. Wortel
{"title":"A low power 900 MHz transmitter IC with audio baseband for ISM applications using 0.25 /spl mu/m BiCMOS","authors":"K. Huehne, S. Bader, D. Coffing, J. Durec, R. Hester, D. Lovelace, E. Main, P. Ovalle, Ruxi Tang, D. Welty, R. Williams, K. Wortel","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854431","url":null,"abstract":"The audio processing function is combined with a 0 dBm transmitter using 0.25 /spl mu/m BiCMOS technology for portable wireless applications. Reference suppression is better than 60 dB. It operates over 1.8 to 2.8 V and consumes 26 mA. As part of a highly integrated two-chip transceiver system, it enables a low cost solution for analog cordless telephones.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129430239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A completely integrated 1.9 GHz receiver front-end with monolithic image reject filter and VCO","authors":"J. Rogers, J. Macedo, C. Plett","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854435","url":null,"abstract":"A 19 GHz monolithic superheterodyne receiver front-end with 300 MHz IF, on-chip tunable image reject filter and VCO is presented. The receiver was fabricated on a 0.5 um bipolar process. The 2.2 GHz VCO was realized with ground-shielded inductors. The performance is as follows: conversion gain: 25.6 dB, noise figure: 4.5 dB, image rejection: 65 dB, and phase noise of -103 dBc/Hz at 100 kHz offset. The LO-IF isolation improved compared to a previously fabricated front-end with off-chip VCO. This receiver front-end has NF, linearity, and phase noise suitable for DCS-1800.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131500508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bud Taddiken, Will Ezell, Eric Mumper, Ken Clayton, Jim Douglass, Vince Birleson, Jose Esquivel, O. Werther, Angelika Schneider, Jay Bolton, Bill White, Geoff Dawe, Mario Lafuente, Kurt Richter, Joel Michon, Javier Ruiz, John Norsworthy
{"title":"Broadband tuner on a chip for cable modem, HDTV, and legacy analog standards","authors":"Bud Taddiken, Will Ezell, Eric Mumper, Ken Clayton, Jim Douglass, Vince Birleson, Jose Esquivel, O. Werther, Angelika Schneider, Jay Bolton, Bill White, Geoff Dawe, Mario Lafuente, Kurt Richter, Joel Michon, Javier Ruiz, John Norsworthy","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854407","url":null,"abstract":"Market requirements and implementation of the first broadband tuner on a chip are described. This IC is built in a 0.8-/spl mu/m BICMOS process and includes the entire signal path as well as integrated PLLs. The architecture and design are discussed at the block and transistor levels. Measured results are shown.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126533347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An introduction to IEEE 802.11 wireless LANs","authors":"S. V. Saliga","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854406","url":null,"abstract":"As the capability of wireless LAN systems improves, interest in these systems is soaring. In this paper, an overview of wireless LANs is presented which will include broad, system level topics relating directly to IEEE 802.11 systems.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125613468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fully differential dual-band image reject receiver in SiGe BiCMOS","authors":"J. Imbornone, J.-M. Mourant, T. Tewksbury","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854436","url":null,"abstract":"A fully differential, dual-band, image reject receiver chip is described. SiGe BiCMOS (ft=45 GHz) enables high dynamic range with NF=2.8/4.1 dB (900 MHz/1.8 GHz) including requisite balun loss, IIP3 >-17 dBm, Gp=22 dB, and image rejection >40 dB at 2.7V (87mW).","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"77 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126222222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The current status of RF and microwave amplifier intermodulation performance","authors":"C.S. Aitchisan","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854428","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the intermodulation performance of RF and microwave amplifiers by reference to some recently published papers.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123668219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Kobayashi, A. Oki, A. Gutierrez-Aitken, E. Kaneshiro, P. Grossman, K. Sato, T. Block, D. Streit
{"title":"A 0.5-16 GHz capacitively coupled HBT medium power amplifier MMIC with active bias regulation","authors":"K. Kobayashi, A. Oki, A. Gutierrez-Aitken, E. Kaneshiro, P. Grossman, K. Sato, T. Block, D. Streit","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854440","url":null,"abstract":"This work describes a 0.5-16 GHz capacitively coupled HBT medium power distributed amplifier targeted for 10 Gb/s fiber-optic transmitter applications. The amplifier obtains a nominal 8-9 dB gain from 500 MHz to 16 GHz with frequency capability down to baseband, and delivers as much as 19 dBm of output power. With a 10 Gb/s PRBS signal applied, the MMIC obtains a peak-to-peak output voltage of >3 V with a clear eye opening while consuming a Pdc of only 420 mW or half the dc power of previous HBT mod driver ICs.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123780323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A fully integrated SiGe bipolar 1.4 GHz Bluetooth voltage-controlled oscillator","authors":"B. Klepser, J. Kucera","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854417","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854417","url":null,"abstract":"A 2.4 GHz fully monolithic voltage-controlled oscillator for the Bluetooth wireless data communication standard is presented for the first time using a commercially available SiGe bipolar technology. An oscillator phase noise of -129 dBc/Hz is achieved at 3 MHz offset, with a tuning range of 500 MHz and a supply current of 6 mA at 3 V.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122051504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. Sahota, K. Gard, B. Walker, S. Szabo, Wenjun Su, E. Zeisel
{"title":"A base-band to RF BiCMOS transmitter RFIC for dual-band CDMA/AMPS wireless handsets","authors":"K. Sahota, K. Gard, B. Walker, S. Szabo, Wenjun Su, E. Zeisel","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854432","url":null,"abstract":"A single chip, base-band to RF, BiCMOS transmitter RFIC (RFT3100) for dual-band CDMA/AMPS wireless handsets is presented. The RFIC contains base-band I/Q modulator, UHF VCO buffer, IF PLL, VCO, IF and RF VGAs, image rejection RF upconverter, dual driver amplifiers for cellular and PCS bands, and a three wire serial interface to control the chip. The chip operates from a 2.7 to 3.3 V supply, a temperature range of -30 to 85/spl deg/C, and is packaged in a 32 lead 5/spl times/5 mm bump chip carrier (BCC) package. The chip is fabricated using a 18 GHz (analog NPN ft), 0.5 um BiCMOS process.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"111 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122064100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A novel RFIC for UHF oscillators","authors":"U. Rohde","doi":"10.1109/RFIC.2000.854415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/RFIC.2000.854415","url":null,"abstract":"In the past, several successful attempts were made in designing low phase noise oscillators, including noise canceling techniques. Since silicon and silicon germanium transistors with high gain are not available in PNP polarity, it has been difficult to find appropriate biasing schemes. This paper shows a novel circuit using NPN transistors, which meets all the required goals and has been validated in discrete form and is currently in production at the Motorola silicon germanium foundry.","PeriodicalId":305585,"journal":{"name":"2000 IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium Digest of Papers (Cat. No.00CH37096)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2000-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133294221","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}