Dual-Band Direct Conversion Receiver With Additive Mixing Architecture

Abstract

A dual-band direct conversion receiver based on additive mixing architecture for low-cost and multi-mode wireless communication systems is proposed. The proposed receiver consists of two active four-port junctions for additive mixing and one-stage dual-band polyphase filter for quadrature LO signal generation. Each four-port junction is fabricated with $0.18~\mu \text{m}$ CMOS technology and configured by an active balun, two buffer amplifiers, two active combiners and two power detectors. The proposed polyphase filter is implemented using type-I architecture adopting one-stage and R-LC resonance type for low power and dual-band operation. The phase and amplitude calibration schemes are also integrated to effectively correct I/Q mismatch within the proposed architecture. The calibration ranges for the phase and amplitude mismatches show 8° and 14 dB, respectively. The validity of the proposed receiver based on additive mixing method is successfully demonstrated by demodulating 16-QAM signals with 40 Mbps at the dual band of 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.

Keywords

• Additive mixing
• CMOS receiver
• direct-conversion receiver
• dual-band polyphase filter
• six-port receiver