A 2.4-GHz 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS dual-mode direct-conversion transceiver for bluetooth and 802.11b

Yeonjae Jung, Hoesam Jeong, Eunseok Song, Jungho Lee, Seung Wook Lee, Donghyeon Seo, Inho Song, Sanghun Jung, Joonbae Park, Deog‐Kyoon Jeong,

IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits · 2004 · 33 citations · 8 references

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Abstract

A dual-mode transceiver integrates the transmitter of 0-dBm output power and the receiver for both Bluetooth with -87 dBm sensitivity and 802.11b with -86 dBm sensitivity in a single chip. A direct-conversion architecture enables the maximum reuse and the optimal current consumption of the various building blocks in each mode for a low-cost and low-power solution. A single-ended power-amplifer (PA) driver transmits the nominal output power of 0 dBm with 18-dB gain control in 3-dB steps. Only little area overhead is required in the baseband active filter and programmable gain amplifier (PGA) to provide the dual-mode capability with optimized current consumption. The DC-offset cancellation scheme coupled with PGAs implements the very low high-pass cutoff frequency with a smaller area than required by a simple coupling capacitor. Fabricated in 0.25-/spl mu/m CMOS process, the die area is 8.4 mm/sup 2/ including pads, and current consumption in RX is 50 mA for Bluetooth and 65 mA for 802.11b from a 2.7-V supply.

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