A silicon bipolar transmitter front-end for 802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless LANs

被引:9
作者
Italia, A [1 ]
La Paglia, L
Scuderi, A
Carrara, F
Ragonese, E
Palmisano, G
机构
[1] Catania Univ, Fac Ingn, Dipartimento Ingn Electtron Sistemi, I-95125 Catania, Italy
[2] STMicroelect Srl, I-95121 Catania, Italy
关键词
HIPERLAN2; orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); radio transmitter; silicon bipolar technology; wireless local area network (WLAN); 802.11a;
D O I
10.1109/JSSC.2005.847327
中图分类号
TM [电工技术]; TN [电子技术、通信技术];
学科分类号
0808 ; 0809 ;
摘要
A 5-GHz transmitter front-end for 802.11a and HIPERLAN2 wireless local area networks was implemented in a low-cost 46-GHz-f(T) silicon bipolar technology. The transmitter includes a digitally controlled linear-in-dB variable-gain up-converter and a three-stage linear power amplifier. At a 3-V supply voltage, the front-end exhibits a 23.5-dBm output 1-dB compression point, 35-dB maximum power gain, and 30-dB dynamic range. The dB-linear gain error is lower than +/- 0.8 dB. The transmitter is able to comply with the stringent error vector magnitude requirement of the standard up to a 19-dBm output power level.
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页码:1451 / 1459
页数:9
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