Series in Microelectronics
edited by
Wolfgang Fichtner
Qiuting Huang
Heinz Jäckel
Hans Melchior
George S. Moschytz
Gerhard Tröster
Corrado
Carta
BiCMOS Radio-Frequency Front-Ends
for Wireless-LAN Receivers.
2006; 234 pages. € 64,00. ISBN 3-86628-071-8
This work presents the study of the design of the RF front-end for
monolithic receivers, which are compliant with the wireless LAN standards at
5GHz, and the modifications needed for dual-band extension to the 2GHz band. In
particular, the implementation in BiCMOS technologies has been considered,
since these are well suited for the large-scale fabrication of low-cost system-on-chip.
The design of low-noise amplifiers, microwave mixers and polyphase
filters is studied in detail. Several design examples are given for individual
circuits suitable for monolithic integration.
The choices made for the various building blocks and architectures are
validated experimentally by presenting several integrated RF front-ends. Two
low-IF receivers meet the specifications for 5-6GHz, and a dual-band version
allows operation also at 2.4GHz. All the circuits operate with very low power
consumption.
Corrado Carta received
the Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica (Master's Degree in Electrical
Engineering) from the University of Cagliari, Italy, in April 2000. Since July
2000 he has been with the Electromagnetic Fields and Microwave Electronics
Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich,
Switzerland, where he worked in the area of low-power radio-frequency
integrated circuits for wireless-LAN applications.
Keywords:.receiver,
wireless-LAN, system-on-chip, amplifier, microwave mixer, polyphase filter,
monolithic integration
Direkt bestellen bei / to order directly from: Hartung.Gorre@t-online.de