Print Email Facebook Twitter A Fully Integrated Discrete-Time Superheterodyne Receiver Title A Fully Integrated Discrete-Time Superheterodyne Receiver Author Tohidian, M. (TU Delft Electronics) Madadi, I. (TU Delft Electronics) Staszewski, R.B. (TU Delft Electronics) Date 2017 Abstract The zero/low intermediate frequency (IF) receiver (RX) architecture has enabled full CMOS integration. As the technology scales and wireless standards become ever more challenging, the issues related to time-varying dc offsets, the second-order nonlinearity, and flicker noise become more critical. In this paper, we propose a new architecture of a superheterodyne RX that attempts to avoid such issues. By exploiting discrete-time (DT) operation and using only switches, capacitors, and inverter-based gm-stages as building blocks, the architecture becomes amenable to further scaling. Full integration is achieved by employing a cascade of four complex-valued passive switched-cap-based bandpass filters sampled at 4× of the local oscillator rate that perform IF image rejection. Channel selection is achieved through an equivalent of the seventh-order filtering. A new twofold noise-canceling low-noise transconductance amplifier is proposed. Frequency domain analysis of the RX is presented by the proposed DT model. The RX is wideband and covers 0.4-2.9 GHz with a noise figure of 2.9-4 dB. It is implemented in 65-nm CMOS and consumes 48-79 mW. Subject Bandpass filters (BPF)MixersRF signalsRadio frequencyReceiversSwitchesTime-domain analysisBandpass filter (BPF)IIP2discrete time (DT)process scalablereceiver (RX)superheterodyneswitched capacitor To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:1982c5d6-b851-4de2-be00-0eab75ac0ee0 DOI https://doi.org/10.1109/TVLSI.2016.2598857 ISSN 1063-8210 Source IEEE Transactions on Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) Systems, 25 (2), 635-647 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2017 M. Tohidian, I. Madadi, R.B. Staszewski Files PDF 07747481.pdf 3.12 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:1982c5d6-b851-4de2-be00-0eab75ac0ee0/datastream/OBJ/view