標題: 應用於射頻發送端之低功率電路
Low-power Circuits Design in RF Transmitter Application
作者: 蔡建忠
Tsai, Chien-Chung
郭建男
鄭裕庭
電子研究所
關鍵字: 三倍頻器;諧波抑制;射頻發送端;結合器;功率放大器;效率;Frequency tripler;Harmonic Rejection;Radio Frequency Transmitter;Combiner;Power Amplifier;Efficiency
公開日期: 2009
摘要: 由於射頻前端(RF front-end)電路是整個收發機中比較耗電的部份,生物電子醫療設備或3C產品…等,對低消耗功率的需求越來越高,為了讓可攜式監控系統或3C產品有更長的電源更換周期,讓有限的資源做充分利用,因此,本論文中利用TSMC CMOS 180 nm製程來實現兩個在射頻發送端之低功率電路。 第一個電路為三倍頻器電路,利用主頻率電流相互抵消的機制,來提供超過35 dB的諧波抑制比(Harmonic Rejection Ratio)。在消耗功率為11.5 mW下有-4.2 dB 的電壓轉換增益,其電源供應為1.8 V,頻率為1.5 GHz。另外,此三倍頻在輸入與輸出皆為四相位訊號,因此,可以使用在通訊系統中之I/Q鏡像抑制(image rejection)。 另一個電路為低功率D類放大器,利用Outphasing (或 LINC)的技術,來改善傳統功率放大器線性度與效率無法同時兼得的瓶頸,根據模擬結果,在1.2 V電壓供應下,頻率為1.4 GHz時的功率消耗為14 mW,以及在1 dB壓縮下之汲極效率與PAE分別為38% 以及 29%,而系統的平均功率為33.16%
The implantable biomedical devices and portable 3C equipments necessitate low power consumption to lengthen the battery lifetime. In this thesis, two low-power circuits in RF transmitter front-end are realized and designed using TSMC 180 nm CMOS technology. The first topic is a frequency tripler with fundamental cancelling which provides more than 35 dB harmonic rejection ratio. The voltage conversion gain is -4.2 dB under 11.5 mW dynamic power consumption. In addition, this frequency tripler features quadrature signal both at input and output, it therefore can be used in communication systems which require I/Q signals for image rejection. The other topic is an outphasing power amplifier which deals with the trade-off between linearity and efficiency. The circuit is implemented by a pair of class-D power amplifiers and a transformer. According to simulation results, the power consumption is 14 mW under 1.2 V supply voltage at 1.4 GHz input frequency. The drain efficiency and power added efficiency (PAE) achieve 38 % and 29 % at input 1-dB compression point, and the average efficiency is 33.16%.
URI: http://140.113.39.130/cdrfb3/record/nctu/#GT079611568
http://hdl.handle.net/11536/41700
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