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An RF front-end with an automatic gain control technique for a U/V band CMMB receiver

Zhao Jinxin, Hu Xueqing, Shi Yin and Wang Lei

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Abstract: This paper presents a fully integrated RF front-end with an automatic gain control (AGC) scheme and a digitally controlled radio frequency varied gain amplifier (RFVGA) for a U/V band China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting (CMMB) direct conversion receiver. The RFVGA provides a gain range of 50 dB with a 1.6 dB step. The adopted AGC strategy could improve immunity to adjacent channel signal, which is of importance for CMMB application. The front-end, composed of a low noise amplifier (LNA), an RFVGA, a mixer and AGC, achieves an input referred 3rd order intercept point (IIP3) of 4.9 dBm with the LNA in low gain mode and the RFVGA in medium gain mode, and a less than 4 dB double side band noise figure with both the LNA and the RFVGA in high gain mode. The proposed RF front-end is fabricated in a 0.35 μm SiGe BiCMOS technology and consumes 25.6 mA from a 3.0 V power supply.

Key words: CMMB

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    Received: 20 August 2015 Revised: 04 June 2011 Online: Published: 01 October 2011

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      Zhao Jinxin, Hu Xueqing, Shi Yin, Wang Lei. An RF front-end with an automatic gain control technique for a U/V band CMMB receiver[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2011, 32(10): 105007. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/32/10/105007 Zhao J X, Hu X Q, Shi Y, Wang L. An RF front-end with an automatic gain control technique for a U/V band CMMB receiver[J]. J. Semicond., 2011, 32(10): 105007. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/32/10/105007.Export: BibTex EndNote
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      Zhao Jinxin, Hu Xueqing, Shi Yin, Wang Lei. An RF front-end with an automatic gain control technique for a U/V band CMMB receiver[J]. Journal of Semiconductors, 2011, 32(10): 105007. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/32/10/105007

      Zhao J X, Hu X Q, Shi Y, Wang L. An RF front-end with an automatic gain control technique for a U/V band CMMB receiver[J]. J. Semicond., 2011, 32(10): 105007. doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/32/10/105007.
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      An RF front-end with an automatic gain control technique for a U/V band CMMB receiver

      doi: 10.1088/1674-4926/32/10/105007
      • Received Date: 2015-08-20
      • Accepted Date: 2011-03-30
      • Revised Date: 2011-06-04
      • Published Date: 2011-09-20

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