Dual-mode RF receiver front-end using a 0.25-µm 60-GHz fTSiGe:C BiCMOS7RF technology

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Dual-mode RF receiver front-end using a 0.25-µm 60-GHz f_TSiGe:C BiCMOS7RF technology

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Proceedings of the 17th symposium on Integrated circuits and system design table of contents

Pernambuco, Brazil

SESSION: RF design table of contents

Pages: 88 - 93

Year of Publication: 2004

ISBN:1-58113-947-0

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C. P. Moreira	University of Bordeaux, France
E. Kerherve	University of Bordeaux, France
P. Jarry	University of Bordeaux, France
A. A. Shirakawa	University of Bordeaux, France
D. Belot	STMicroelectronics, Crolles, France

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This paper presents a dual-mode RF receiver front-end consisting of a LNA, an active single-ended-to-differential converter and a downconversion mixer. It uses a high performance 0.25-μm 60-GHz fr SiGe:C BiCMOS7RF integration technology from STMicroelectronics. The proposed RF receiver front-end (RFFE) is targeted to GSM1800 (1805-1880MHz) and WCDMA-FDD (2110-2170MHz) systems. The main motivation of this work is to share as many elements as possible in both modes avoiding conventional parallel receiver chains, which is not a cost-efficient solution. The overall RFFE achievable gain is around 40dB in both modes. The overall front-end noise figure (Friis formula) is less than 1.3dB for GSM1800 and 1.6dB for WCDMA mode. These performances fulfill the systems requirements. The complete RFFE circuit consumes 18mW in both operation modes at 2.5V supply voltage.

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