A 1.9-GHz wide-band IF double conversion CMOS receiver for cordless telephone applications

A monolithic 1.9-GHz, 198-mW, 0.6-mu m CMOS receiver which meets the specifications of the Digital Enhanced Cordless Telecommunications (DECT) standard is described. Ail of the RF, IF, and baseband receiver components, with the exception of the frequency synthesizers, have been integrated into a single chip solution. A description is given of a wide-band IF with double conversion architecture which eliminates the need for the discrete-component noise and TF filters in addition to facilitating the eventual integration of the frequency synthesizer blocks with on-chip VCO's. The prototype device utilizes a 3.3-V supply and includes a low noise amplifier, an image-rejection mixer, and two quadrature baseband signal paths each of which includes a second-order Sallen and Key anti-alias filter, an eighth-order switched-capacitor filter network followed by a 10-b pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The experimental device has a measured receiver reference sensitivity of -90 dBm, an input referred IP3 of -7 dBm, a P-1 dB of -24 dBm, and an image-rejection ratio of -55 dBc across the DECT bands.