A Low-Voltage Tunable Channel Selection Filter for WiMAX Applications

This paper proposes a low-voltage and low-power fully integrated digitally tuned continuous-time channel selection filter for WiMAX applications. A 5th-order elliptic low-pass filter is realized in a Gm-C topology. The bandwidth of the fully differential filter is reconfigurable from 2.5MHz to 20MHz (8x) for different requirements in WiMAX applications. The filter is simulated in a standard 90nm CMOS process. Simulation results show the THD (@Vout =100mVpp) is less than -66dB. The in-band ripple of the filter is about 0.15dB. The filter consumes 1.5mW from a supply voltage of 0.9V.

Authors:

• Kayvan Ahmadi
• Hossein Shamsi

Keywords:

• Common-mode feedback
• continuous-time
• fully differential transconductor
• Gm-C topology
• low-voltage

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