Charge-based CMOS digital RF transmitters

• Other Authors: Paro Filho, Pedro Emiliano, Craninckx, J., Wambacq, Piet, Ingels, M. 1967-
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer, 2016.
• Series: Analog circuits and signal processing series.
• Subjects: Radio > Transmitter-receivers.; Metal oxide semiconductors, Complementary.; Radio frequency integrated circuits.; Power amplifiers.; Low power radio.; Signal integrity (Electronics); elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319457871; 9783319457864
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxix, 152 pages)

This book introduces a completely novel architecture that can relax the trade-off existing today between noise, power and area consumption in a very suitable solution for advanced wireless communication systems. Through the combination of charge-domain operation with incremental signaling, this arch...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Biography; 1 Introduction ; 1.1 The Fear of Disconnection; 1.2 Advanced Wireless Communication Systems; 1.3 Flexible Multi-Standard Operation; 1.3.1 TX Frontend Key Requirements; 1.4 High Performance TX Architectures; 1.5 Quadrature Direct-Conversion Transmitters; 2 Incremental-Charge-Based Operation ; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Incremental-Charge-Based Operation; 2.2.1 Noise and Alias Performance; 2.2.1.1 Alias Attenuation; 2.2.1.2 Intrinsic Noise Filtering; 2.2.1.3 Quantization Noise Scaling.
• 2.2.1.4 Harmonic Performance; 2.3 Charge-Based Transmitter; 2.3.1 Power Efficiency; 2.4 Conclusion; 3 Capacitive Charge-Based Transmitter ; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Architecture; 3.2.1 Operating Principles; 3.2.2 CQDAC Operation; 3.2.3 Noise and Alias Performance; 3.2.3.1 Intrinsic RSCC Noise Filtering; 3.2.3.2 Quantization Noise; 3.2.3.3 sinc2 Alias Attenuation; 3.2.4 Harmonic Performance; 3.3 Circuit Realization; 3.3.1 CQDAC; 3.3.1.1 CUNIT/CBB; 3.3.1.2 Unit Cell; 3.3.1.3 Thermometer Decoder; 3.3.1.4 Layout; 3.3.2 Mixer and PPA; 3.3.2.1 PPA Design; 3.3.2.2 Mixer Design; 3.3.3 LO Generation.
• 3.3.4 Top-Level Description; 3.4 Measurement Results; 3.4.1 Measurement Setup; 3.4.2 CQDAC Measurement Results; 3.4.3 CQDAC TX Measurement Results; 3.5 Conclusion; 4 Resistive Charge-Based Transmitter ; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Architecture; 4.2.1 Operating Principles; 4.2.2 RQDAC Operation; 4.2.3 Noise and Alias Performance; 4.2.3.1 Intrinsic RC Noise Filtering; 4.2.3.2 Quantization Noise; 4.2.3.3 sinc2 Alias Attenuation; 4.2.4 Harmonic Performance; 4.2.4.1 RQDAC Switch; 4.2.4.2 Mixer Switches; 4.3 Circuit Realization; 4.3.1 RQDAC; 4.3.1.1 Unit Cell; 4.3.1.2 Layout; 4.3.2 Mixer Design.
• 4.3.3 LO Generation; 4.3.4 Top-Level Description; 4.4 Measurement Results; 4.4.1 Measurement Setup; 4.4.2 RQDAC Measurement Results; 4.4.3 RQDAC TX Measurement Results; 4.5 Conclusion; 5 Conclusion ; 5.1 Summary; Bibliography.