System Concept for Low Analog Complexity and High-IF Superposition Heterodyne Receivers
For today-s and future wireless communications applications,
more and more data traffic has to be transmitted with
growing speed and quality demands. The analog front-end of any
mobile device has to cope with very hard specifications regardless
which transmission standard has to be supported. State-of-the-art
analog front-end implementations are reaching the limit of technical
feasibility. For that reason, alternative front-end architectures could
support a continuing development of mobile communications e.g.,
six-port-based front-ends [1], [2].
In this article we propose an analog front-end with high intermediate
frequency and which utilizes additive mixing instead
of multiplicative mixing. The system architecture is presented and
several spurious effects as well as their influence on the system
dimensioning are discussed. Furthermore, several issues concerning
the technical feasibility are provided and some simulation results
are discussed which show the principle functionality of the proposed
superposition heterodyne receiver.
[1] Tim Hentschel, "The Six-Port as a Communications Receiver", IEEE
Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT), vol. 53, no. 3,
Mar. 2005, pp. 1039-1047.
[2] Masayoshi Abe, Noboru Sasho, Veselin Brankovic, Dragan Krupezevic,
"Direct Conversion MMIC based on Six-Port Technology", in Proceedings
of the European Conference on Wireless Technology 2000, ECWT5-
1, Paris, Oct. 2000.
[3] Farbod Behbahani, John C. Leete, Yoji Kishigami, Andreas Roithmeier,
Koichi Hoshino and Asad A. Abidi, "A 2.4-GHz Low-IF Receiver for
Wideband WLAN in 0.6-╬╝m CMOSArchitecture and Front-End", IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 35, no. 12, Dec. 2000, pp. 1908-1916.
[4] Won Namgoong, Teresa H. Meng, "Direct-Conversion RF Receiver
Design", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 49, no. 3, Mar.
2001, pp. 518-529.
[5] Raik Richter, Hans-Joachim Jentschel, "An Integrated Wideband-IFReceiver
Architecture for Mobile Terminals", in Proceedings of IEEE
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, Philadelphia,
USA, Jun. 2003, pp. 583-586.
[6] Guillaume Neveux, Bernard Huyart, Georges J. Rodriguez-Guisantes,
"Wide-band RF Receiver Using the "Five-Port" Technology", IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 53, no. 5, Sept. 2004.
[7] Mohamed Ratni, Dragan Krupezevic, Zhaocheng Wang, Jens-
Uwe J¨urgensen, "Broadband Digital Direct Down Conversion Receiver
Suitable for Software Defined Radio", in Proceedings of the 13th
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Communications PIMRC, MPO1.5, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2002,
pp. 93-99.
[8] Marko Mailand, Hans-Joachim Jentschel, "An Effort Reduced Six-Port
Direct Conversion Receiver and Its Calibration", in Proceedings of
the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2005
(WCNC-2005), New Orleans, USA, Mar. 2005.
[9] Marko Mailand, Hans-Joachim Jentschel, "Compensation of DC-Offsets
and RF-Self-Mixing Products in Six-Port-Based Analog Direct Receivers",
in Proceedings of the 14th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications
Summit, Dresden, Germany, 19-23 June 2005.
[10] Mikko Valkama, Markku Renfors, and Visa Koivunen, "Advanced
methods for I/Q imbalance compensation in communication receivers",
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, Oct. 2001, pp. 2335 -
2344.
[11] Magnus Wiklund, Stefan Nilsson, Chrisitan Bjork, Sven Mattisson, "A
2GHz Image-Reject Receiver in a Low IF Architecture Fabricated in a
0.1╬╝m CMOS Technology", in Proceedings of the 2003 International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2003(ISCAS-03), Bangkok, Thailand,
May 2003.
[12] Markus Windisch and Gerhard Fettweis,"Blind I/Q Imbalance Parameter
Estimation and Compensation in Low-IF Receivers", in Proceedings of
the 1st International Symposium on Control, Communications and Signal
Processing (ISCCSP), Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2004.
[13] Marko Mailand, Raik Richter and Hans-Joachim Jentschel,"Nonlinearity
Analysis of Power Detectors in Direct Conversion Receivers Utilizing
Six-Port Technology", in Proceedings of International Symposium on
Signals, Circuits and Systems, ISSCS 2005, Iasi, Romania, 14-15 Jul.
2005.
[1] Tim Hentschel, "The Six-Port as a Communications Receiver", IEEE
Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques (MTT), vol. 53, no. 3,
Mar. 2005, pp. 1039-1047.
[2] Masayoshi Abe, Noboru Sasho, Veselin Brankovic, Dragan Krupezevic,
"Direct Conversion MMIC based on Six-Port Technology", in Proceedings
of the European Conference on Wireless Technology 2000, ECWT5-
1, Paris, Oct. 2000.
[3] Farbod Behbahani, John C. Leete, Yoji Kishigami, Andreas Roithmeier,
Koichi Hoshino and Asad A. Abidi, "A 2.4-GHz Low-IF Receiver for
Wideband WLAN in 0.6-╬╝m CMOSArchitecture and Front-End", IEEE
Journal of Solid-State Circuits, vol. 35, no. 12, Dec. 2000, pp. 1908-1916.
[4] Won Namgoong, Teresa H. Meng, "Direct-Conversion RF Receiver
Design", IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 49, no. 3, Mar.
2001, pp. 518-529.
[5] Raik Richter, Hans-Joachim Jentschel, "An Integrated Wideband-IFReceiver
Architecture for Mobile Terminals", in Proceedings of IEEE
Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) Symposium, Philadelphia,
USA, Jun. 2003, pp. 583-586.
[6] Guillaume Neveux, Bernard Huyart, Georges J. Rodriguez-Guisantes,
"Wide-band RF Receiver Using the "Five-Port" Technology", IEEE
Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 53, no. 5, Sept. 2004.
[7] Mohamed Ratni, Dragan Krupezevic, Zhaocheng Wang, Jens-
Uwe J¨urgensen, "Broadband Digital Direct Down Conversion Receiver
Suitable for Software Defined Radio", in Proceedings of the 13th
IEEE International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio
Communications PIMRC, MPO1.5, Lisbon, Portugal, Sept. 2002,
pp. 93-99.
[8] Marko Mailand, Hans-Joachim Jentschel, "An Effort Reduced Six-Port
Direct Conversion Receiver and Its Calibration", in Proceedings of
the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference 2005
(WCNC-2005), New Orleans, USA, Mar. 2005.
[9] Marko Mailand, Hans-Joachim Jentschel, "Compensation of DC-Offsets
and RF-Self-Mixing Products in Six-Port-Based Analog Direct Receivers",
in Proceedings of the 14th IST Mobile & Wireless Communications
Summit, Dresden, Germany, 19-23 June 2005.
[10] Mikko Valkama, Markku Renfors, and Visa Koivunen, "Advanced
methods for I/Q imbalance compensation in communication receivers",
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, vol. 49, Oct. 2001, pp. 2335 -
2344.
[11] Magnus Wiklund, Stefan Nilsson, Chrisitan Bjork, Sven Mattisson, "A
2GHz Image-Reject Receiver in a Low IF Architecture Fabricated in a
0.1╬╝m CMOS Technology", in Proceedings of the 2003 International
Symposium on Circuits and Systems, 2003(ISCAS-03), Bangkok, Thailand,
May 2003.
[12] Markus Windisch and Gerhard Fettweis,"Blind I/Q Imbalance Parameter
Estimation and Compensation in Low-IF Receivers", in Proceedings of
the 1st International Symposium on Control, Communications and Signal
Processing (ISCCSP), Hammamet, Tunisia, March 2004.
[13] Marko Mailand, Raik Richter and Hans-Joachim Jentschel,"Nonlinearity
Analysis of Power Detectors in Direct Conversion Receivers Utilizing
Six-Port Technology", in Proceedings of International Symposium on
Signals, Circuits and Systems, ISSCS 2005, Iasi, Romania, 14-15 Jul.
2005.
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more and more data traffic has to be transmitted with
growing speed and quality demands. The analog front-end of any
mobile device has to cope with very hard specifications regardless
which transmission standard has to be supported. State-of-the-art
analog front-end implementations are reaching the limit of technical
feasibility. For that reason, alternative front-end architectures could
support a continuing development of mobile communications e.g.,
six-port-based front-ends [1], [2].
In this article we propose an analog front-end with high intermediate
frequency and which utilizes additive mixing instead
of multiplicative mixing. The system architecture is presented and
several spurious effects as well as their influence on the system
dimensioning are discussed. Furthermore, several issues concerning
the technical feasibility are provided and some simulation results
are discussed which show the principle functionality of the proposed
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