A Digital-Front-End Enhanced Multi-Mode/Multi-Standard Wireless Receiver

  • Andreas Springer
  • , Rainer Stuhlberger
  • , Gernot Hueber
  • , Linus Maurer
  • , Georg Strasser

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Abstract

This paper presents a multi-mode receiver concept for different transmission standards like UMTS and IS95. Due to the use of a Digital-Front-End (DFE) the requirements for the analog part of the well known direct conversion receiver (DCR) architecture decrease because the channelization and fine frequency tuning are shifted from the analog into the digital domain. The adaptation of the channelization requirements subjected to the different transmission standards is limited in the analog domain by nature of their implementation. Shifting this functionality into the DFE greatly easies this task due to the availability of highly reconfigurable digital filter structures. Another challenge is the analog to digital conversion which is carried out with a high dynamic-range/low-power -analog-to-digital-converter (ADC). The DFE also carries out an integer and fractional sample rate conversion to expand the flexibility and satisfy the requirements of different digital base band integrated circuits (BB-IC).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProc. 9th WSEAS Int. Conf. on Communications
Number of pages6
Publication statusPublished - Jul 2005

Fields of science

  • 202 Electrical Engineering, Electronics, Information Engineering
  • 202019 High frequency engineering
  • 202029 Microwave engineering
  • 202030 Communication engineering
  • 202033 Radar technology
  • 202037 Signal processing
  • 202038 Telecommunications

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