A process-tolerant out-of-band blocker rejection technique for SAW-less receivers |
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Authors: | Mohamed Abouzied Hatem OsmanAhmed Emira Ahmed N. Mohieldin |
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Affiliation: | Electronics and Electrical Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt |
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Abstract: | In this paper, an active filtering technique is presented which is capable of filtering the out-of-band blockers in wireless receivers. The concept is based on the feedforward cancellation technique where a blocker replica is subtracted at the output of the low-noise amplifier (LNA). In contrast to the previously reported feedforward cancellation methods, exact gain and phase matching are easily obtained in the proposed architecture to produce a highly selective narrowband frequency response at the output of the LNA with wide rejection bandwidth. For the proof of concept, the system is implemented in a 65 nm CMOS technology. It occupies a total area of 0.8 mm2 and the current consumption is 24 mA from a 1.2 V supply. The system post-layout simulations showed a blocker rejection of more than 33 dB for blocker signals 100 MHz away from the desired signal when the feedforward path is activated. The noise figure (NF) of the entire system is 3.8 dB that degrades to 5.8 dB when the feedforward path is activated. |
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Keywords: | Receiver Low noise amplifier (LNA) Mixers Blocker rejection SAW-less Tunable filtering Frequency translational loop Feedforward cancellation Tunable input impedance matching Temperature and process variation narrowband filtering Linearity and noise |
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