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A Wideband Noise-Cancelling Receiver Front-End Using a Linearized Transconductor
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A wideband noise-cancelling receiver front-end is proposed in this brief. As a basic architecture, a low-noise transconductance amplifier, a passive mixer, and a transimpedance amplifier are employed to compose the wideband receiver. To achieve wideband input matching for the transconductor, a global feedback method is adopted. Since the wideband receiver has to minimize linearity degradation if a large blocker signal exists out-of-band, a linearization technique is applied for the transconductor circuit. The linearization cancels third-order intermodulation distortion components and increases linearity; however, the additional circuits used in linearization generate excessive noise. A noise-cancelling architecture that employs an auxiliary path cancels noise signals generated in the main path. The designed receiver front-end is fabricated using a 65-nm CMOS process. The receiver operates in the frequency range of 25 MHz-2 GHz with a gain of 49.7 dB. The in-band input-referred third-order intercept point is improved by 12.3 dB when the linearization is activated, demonstrating the effectiveness of the linearization technique.
- Publication
- IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E100-C No.3 pp.340-343
- Publication Date
- 2017/03/01
- Publicized
- Online ISSN
- 1745-1353
- DOI
- 10.1587/transele.E100.C.340
- Type of Manuscript
- BRIEF PAPER
- Category
- Microwaves, Millimeter-Waves
Authors
Duksoo KIM
Seoul National University
Byungjoon KIM
Seoul National University
Sangwook NAM
Seoul National University
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Duksoo KIM, Byungjoon KIM, Sangwook NAM, "A Wideband Noise-Cancelling Receiver Front-End Using a Linearized Transconductor" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics,
vol. E100-C, no. 3, pp. 340-343, March 2017, doi: 10.1587/transele.E100.C.340.
Abstract: A wideband noise-cancelling receiver front-end is proposed in this brief. As a basic architecture, a low-noise transconductance amplifier, a passive mixer, and a transimpedance amplifier are employed to compose the wideband receiver. To achieve wideband input matching for the transconductor, a global feedback method is adopted. Since the wideband receiver has to minimize linearity degradation if a large blocker signal exists out-of-band, a linearization technique is applied for the transconductor circuit. The linearization cancels third-order intermodulation distortion components and increases linearity; however, the additional circuits used in linearization generate excessive noise. A noise-cancelling architecture that employs an auxiliary path cancels noise signals generated in the main path. The designed receiver front-end is fabricated using a 65-nm CMOS process. The receiver operates in the frequency range of 25 MHz-2 GHz with a gain of 49.7 dB. The in-band input-referred third-order intercept point is improved by 12.3 dB when the linearization is activated, demonstrating the effectiveness of the linearization technique.
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