Jong-Dae Bae

A multistandard multiband mobile TV RF SoC in 65nm CMOS

The mobile TV applications such as DVH-H/T, T-DMB/DAB, ISDB-T are recently emerging all over the world. To support various applications, the multistandard and multiband mobile TV RF tuner is developed as a cost-effective and size-effective solution [1]. The demand for smaller form factor and power consumption reduction of RF and Channel is very high, and SoC technology is being adopted to meet the customers requirements. As shown in Fig. 25.7.1, an SoC that implements all of the standards and frequency bands of a mobile TV in a 65nm CMOS is presented in this paper. This RF SoC consists of three RF front ends, a dual-mode analog baseband filter supporting lowpass filtering and complex bandpass filtering, a digitally controlled programmable-gain amplifier (PGA), wideband VCO/PLL, DCXO, data converters, demodulator, forward error correction (FEC), hardwired multiprotocl encapsulation forward error correction (MPE-FEC), ARM CPU and SRAM. This mobile TV RF SoC reduces board area and complexity while cutting system design time.

A multi-standard multi-band tuner for mobile TV SoC with GSM Interoperability

A multi-standard multi-band tuner for mobile TV SoC satisfying the GSM850 & GSM900 Interoperability (IOP) is presented. The single-chip SoC satisfies all requirements of DVB-H/T, ISDB-T, and DAB application with margin. Moreover, this SoC meets not only the GSM900 IOP which is described in MBRAI 2.0, but also GSM850 IOP, in DVB-T/H mode. To suppress GSM transmitter signal in UHF band, LC-tuned load and tunable input matching scheme are adopted in UHF LNA. The SoC consists of three RF LNAs covering the 174 to 248MHz (VHF), 470 to 862MHz (UHF), and 1450 to 1490MHz (L-BAND) bands, dual mode analog baseband filter supporting low pass filtering for direct conversion in DVB-H/T mode and complex band pass filtering for low-IF conversion in ISDB-T 1-segmentation and DAB. The measured sensitivity at UHF for the QPSK 1/2 DVB-T mode is under −95.5dBm with GSM rejection filter.

A Wideband CMOS RF Front-End Using AC-Coupled Current Mirrored Technique for Multiband Multistandard Mobile TV Tuners

In this paper, a wideband CMOS radio frequency (RF) front-end for various terrestrial mobile digital TV applications such as digital video broadcasting-handheld, terrestrial digital multimedia broadcasting, and integrated services digital broadcasting-terrestrial is proposed. To cover VHF III, UHF, and L bands and reduce the silicon area simultaneously, it employs three low-noise amplifiers and single-to-differential transconductors and shares the rest of the RF front-end. By applying ac-coupled current mirrored technique, the proposed RF front-end has good wideband performance, high linearity, and precise gain control. It is fabricated in 0.18 mum CMOS process and draws 15 mA~20 mA from a 1.8 V supply voltage for each band. It shows a gain of more than 29 dB, noise figure of lower than 2.5 dB, IIP2 of more than 30 dBm, IIP3 of more than -10 dBm for entire bands.

A 85-mW Multistandard Multiband CMOS Mobile TV Tuner for DVB-H/T, T-DMB, and ISDB-T Applications with FM Reception

A fully integrated multistandard multiband CMOS mobile TV tuner with small silicon area and low power consumption is proposed for receiving multiple mobile digital TV signals and FM signal. In order to reduce the silicon area of the multistandard multiband receiver, other RF front-end circuits except LNAs are shared and a local oscillator (LO) signal generation architecture with a single VCO for a frequency synthesizer is proposed. To reduce the low frequency noise and the power consumption, a vertical NPN BJT is used in an analog baseband circuits. The RF tuner IC is implemented in a 0.18-mm CMOS technology. The RF tuner IC satisfies all specifications for DVB-H/T, T-DMB, and ISDB-T with a sufficient margin and a successful demonstration has been carried out for DVB-H/T, T- DMB, and ISDB-T with a digital demodulator.

A triband 65nm CMOS tuner for ATSC mobile DTV SoC

A triband 65nm CMOS tuner is designed and implemented for first ATSC mobile DTV SoC. It supports VHF-I, VHF-III, and UHF bands. The tuner achieves a 2.5/3.0/4.0dB NF at VHF-I, VHF-III and UHF band respectively, while consuming less than 100mW. By using narrowband LNA architecture with input and load tuning ability, it can meet linearity requirement for ATSC mobile with small power consumption. It also automatically calibrates baseband low-pass filter cut-off frequency and LNA LC load resonant frequency.

Design and Analysis of an Ultra-Wideband Automatic Self-Calibrating Upconverter in 65-nm CMOS

In this paper, an ultra-wideband (UWB) upconverter is proposed that has automatic self-calibrating circuits for the in-phase/quadrature mismatch correction and the local (LO) leakage suppression. The proposed self-calibrating circuits have been devised to have UWB functionality without help of the baseband processor. In addition, calibrating circuits do not need any additional analog-to-digital converter or sample-and-hold capacitors that are used to store and update the minimum power because the proposed calibrators find the solution from informations in current state. To verify the performance, the upconverter was applied to an UWB transmitter (Tx), operating from 3.1 to 4.8 GHz and from 6.3 to 9 GHz in 65-nm CMOS. The measured data shows UWB performance for the sideband rejection up to 9 GHz and the LO leakage suppression up to 5 GHz, respectively. The automatically calibrated Tx has error vector magnitude of lower than -20 dB, output 1-dB compression point of -6 dBm, LO leakage of lower than -43 dBm, and sideband suppression ratio of higher than 45 dBc with current consumption of 175 mA from a 1.2-V power supply for all supporting bands and time frequency codes defined in WiMedia UWB specifications.

A dual-band digital TV tuner for CMMB application SoC

A dual-band digital TV tuner for CMMB application SoC is presented. The single-chip SoC satisfies all requirements of CMMB application with margin. Moreover, the SoC meets the GSM IOP which means the co-operation GSM transmitter and mobile TV reception. To suppress GSM transmitter signal in UHF band, LC-tuned load and tunable input matching scheme are adopted in UHF LNA. The SoC consists of two RF LNAs covering the 470 to 798MHz (UHF), and 2635 to 2660MHz (S-BAND) bands, an analog baseband filter supporting low pass filtering for direct conversion, and ΔΣ fractional-N synthesizer with one VCO. The measured sensitivity at UHF for the QPSK mode is −9.8dBm with ADC clock shift scheme.

A low power GPS/Galileo/GLONASS receiver in 65nm CMOS

A low power GPS/Galileo/GLONASS receiver is presented. The single chip supports GPS/Galileo and GLONASS operation simultaneously. To operate both application simultaneously, two mixers and two baseband filters are used. The chip size is 3.24 mm2 including bonding PAD. The system noise figure (NF) is 1.95 dB including SAW filter which loss is 1 dB. Power consumption is 23.6 mW for GPS/Galileo operation and 25.4 mW for GLONASS operation from 1.2V supply.

A 65nm CMOS low-noise three band group WiMedia UWB receiver

A low-noise and high-gain ultra wideband (UWB) receiver was developed using a 65nm CMOS technology and a wafer-level fabricated package. In order to enhance the gain and noise figure over a wide frequency band, the resistive feedback amplifier and two cascode stages with the inductive load resonating at three different frequencies are employed. The fabricated UWB receiver showed a high gain of 72.6 dB ± 0.7 dB overall operating frequency range, and an average noise figure of 4.1 dB in 3168 to 4752 MHz, 4.3 dB in 6366 to 7920 MHz and 5.1 dB in 7392 to 8976 MHz frequency band, respectively. The noise figure at high frequency edge is lower than 6 dB. The measured sensitivities in three band groups meet all WiMedia PHY specifications.

A WiMedia UWB transmitter up to 9GHz in 65nm CMOS and Wafer-Level Fabricated Package

A 3.1–4.7GHz and 6.3–9GHz RF transmitter fabricated in a 65nm CMOS technology and packaged with a Wafer-level Fabricated Package (WFP) is presented. For high frequency and wideband performances, all the effects of package are considered and loopback paths with a power detector are implemented. A new structure of T/R switch is devised for the low noise performance of Rx and the high linearity of Tx. With these circuits, the transmitter features high linearity, low power consumption and small chip area meeting all the WiMedia PHY spec.