A Direct Up-Conversion Transmitter with Integrated Prescaler for Reconfigurable Multi-Band/Multi-Standard Base Stations

  • Johannes Platz (Editor)
  • , Georg Strasser
  • , Klaus Feilkas
  • , Linus Maurer
  • , Andreas Springer

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Abstract

A direct up-conversion transmitter IC for reconfigurable multi-band/multi-standard base stations is presented. It was manufactured in a 0.35 µm 75 GHz fT SiGe BiCMOS process. The chip consists of a quadrature modulator, an integrated baseband filter, and a reconfigurable prescaler which includes the quadrature signal generation and provides three different divider-ratios for a reduction of the VCO tuning range. The up-converter was designed for a frequency range of 400 MHz up to 2.7 GHz. Measurements show an maximum output channel power of -1.9 dBm and an ACLR lower than -57 dBc. The measured EVM is lower than 2.2% and the noise floor has an upper limit of -153 dBm/Hz.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationDigest of Papers of the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium 2005
Number of pages4
Publication statusPublished - Jun 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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