High Dynamic Range RF Front End with Noise Cancellation and Linearization for WiMAX Receivers
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2012-06
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Společnost pro radioelektronické inženýrství
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This research deals with verification of the high dynamic range for a heterodyne radio frequency (RF) front end. A 2.6 GHz RF front end is designed and implemented in a hybrid microwave integrated circuit (HMIC) for worldwide interoperability for microwave access (WiMAX) receivers. The heterodyne RF front end consists of a low-noise amplifier (LNA) with noise cancellation, an RF bandpass filter (BPF), a downconverter with linearization, and an intermediate frequency (IF) BPF. A noise canceling technique used in the low-noise amplifier eliminates a thermal noise and then reduces the noise figure (NF) of the RF front end by 0.9 dB. Use of a downconverter with diode linearizer also compensates for gain compression, which increases the input-referred third-order intercept point (IIP3) of the RF front end by 4.3 dB. The proposed method substantially increases the spurious-free dynamic range (DRf) of the RF front end by 3.5 dB.
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Radioengineering. 2012, vol. 21, č. 2, s. 704-711. ISSN 1210-2512
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2012/12_02_0704_0711.pdf
http://www.radioeng.cz/fulltexts/2012/12_02_0704_0711.pdf
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en