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A 1.2 V 114 mW Dual-Band Direct-Conversion DVB-H Tuner in 0.13 mu m CMOS
(2009-03-01)
Kuo, Ming-Ching
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Kao, Shiau-Wen
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Chen, Chih-Hung
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Hung, Tsun-Shuen
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Shih, Yi-Shing
A fully integrated direct-conversion tuner is implemented in 0.13 mu m CMOS technology. A broadband noise-canceling balun LNA with the proposed dual cross-coupling technique helps achieve an overall receiver noise figure from 3.7 to 4.3 dB while consuming only 3.6 mW. The proposed current-mode switching scheme improves the achievable SNIR with a gain step of 15 dB, providing IIP3 improvement of 18 dB and NF degradation of only 6 dB. Moreover, design trade-offs are carefully considered in designing the baseband circuit, which provides wide gain tuning and bandwidth accuracy with a DC offset residual less than 6 mV. The measured maximum SNR values are better than 30 dB over wide input power levels, ensuring robust reception in a mobile environment. All circuit blocks are operated at 1.2 V. As a result, the tuner consumes power as low as 114 mW in the continuous mode. This compact tuner supports both UHF and L-bands, and occupies only 7.2 mm(2) die area.