A 5-GHz BiCMOS RFIC front-end for IEEE 802.11a

An RFIC for the IEEE 802.11a/HiperLAN WLAN standard has been designed and fabricated in a 0.5-μm SiGe BiCMOS technology. The IC, which is part of a superheterodyne radio, comprises an RF synthesizer and up/down converters from the 5.18-5.8-GHz UNII band to an 880-MHz IF. In high gain, the receiver e...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal of solid state circuits 38, 7 (2003).
Main Author:	Margarit, M.A
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	0.5 micron. 11 dB. 18 dB. 2.7 V. 20 dB. 31 dB. 5 GHz. 5.7 dB. 54 Mbit/s. 64 QAM mode. IEEE 802.11a/HiperLAN wireless LAN. OFDM modulation. RF receiver. RF synthesizer. RF transmitter. RFIC front-end. SiGe. SiGe BiCMOS IC. Air link. Conversion gain. Error vector magnitude. Input referred third-order intercept. Integer-N synthesizer. Noise figure. pMOS VCO. Phase noise. Superheterodyne radio. Trimodulus prescaler. Up/down converter.