Marco Cassia

A Low-Power CMOS SAW-Less Quad Band WCDMA/HSPA/HSPA+/1X/EGPRS Transmitter

In this paper we present a multi-band CMOS transmitter for cellular applications. The transmitter covers a wide range of frequency bands and it is designed to minimize power consumption in order to increase handset talk-time. The output noise performance allows the removal of SAW for certain W-CDMA and CDMA bands; moreover it can be configured to be used for SAW-less GSM/EDGE operations while maintaining an excellent linearity.

Single-chip RF CMOS UMTS/EGSM transceiver with integrated receive diversity and GPS

The large commercial success of multiband multimode 3rd-generation cellular products has driven single-chip integration, SAW-filter reduction and low power consumption. State-of-the-art solutions require quad-band EGSM combined with multiband WCDMA/HSPA receiver diversity and integrated GPS. Compact form factors make single-chip SAW-less solutions highly desirable. A Quad-Band GSM/EDGE-only transceiver was published in [1], and Triple-Band WCDMA-only transceiver solutions were published in [2–4]. This work describes the first multiband WCDMA/HSPA/EGPRS single-chip transceiver with GPS and receiver diversity. This device supports UMTS Bands 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9,10 and GSM/EDGE 800, 900, 1800, 1900MHz Bands. It is implemented in cost-effective 0.18µm RF CMOS technology and uses a reduced number of TX and RX SAW filters.

A low power CMOS SAW-less quad band WCDMA/HSPA/1X/EGPRS transmitter

In this paper we present a multi-band CMOS transmitter for cellular applications. The transmitter covers a wide range of frequency bands and it is designed to minimize power consumption in order to increase hand-set talk-time. The output noise performance allows the removal of SAW for certain W-CDMA and CDMA bands; moreover it can be configured to be used for SAW-less GSM/EDGE operations while maintaining an excellent linearity.

A dual-band high efficiency CMOS transmitter for wireless CDMA applications

A dual-band transmitter integrated circuit (TxIC), including baseband filter and variable gain amplifier (VGA), upconverter, RF VGA, driver amplifier (DA), is implemented in 0.18 mum CMOS for CDMA applications. The TxIC increases the handset talk time dramatically with the PA-bypass feature. The chip provides more than a total power control range of 80 dB and a fine gain step of 0.25 dB/LSB. The chip achieves 52.3 dBc ACPR at +7 dBm output power with 52.2 mA and 51.7 dBc ACPR at +7 dBm output power with 51.9 mA for low band and high band applications respectively.