Analog Circuit Design: Volt Electronics; Mixed-Mode Systems; Low-Noise and RF Power Amplifiers for Telecommunication

409 Pages·1999·14.7 MB·English

by  Wouter A. Serdijn

ANALOG CIRCUIT DESIGN
ANALOG CIRCUIT
DESIGN
Volt Electronics; Mixed-Mode Systems;
Low-Noise and RF Power Amplifiers
for Telecomrnunication
Edited by
Johan Huijsing
Delfl University v/Techn%gy, De/jI, rlle Ne/hulands
Rudy van de Plassche
Eindllovl!n University ojTuJmology, Eindlroven, The Netherlands
and
Willy Sansen
Katllolieke Universilei, U I/llen, Bdgiul11
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DOI 10.1007/978-1-4757-2983-2
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Table of Contents
Preface vii
Part I: I-Volt Electronics
Introduction ....................................................................................................................... 1
Dynamic Translinear Circuits
Wouter A. Serdijn, Jan Mulder, Paul Poort, Michiel Kouwenhoven, Arie van
Staveren and Arthur H.M. van Roermund ........................................................................ 3
I-V Log-Domain Filters
Christian Enz and Manfred Punzenberger ...................................................................... 33
1V switched-capacitor filters
A. Baschirotto and R. Castello ........................................................................................ 69
1 V AL AID Converters
V. Peluso, M. Steyaert and W. Sansen ........................................................................... 93
I-Volt RF Circuit Design for Pagers
Ed Callaway .................................................................................................................. 111
DCIDC Conversion, the key to low power consumption
E.C. Dijkmans and F.J. Sluijs ....................................................................................... 133
Part 11: Design and implementation of Mixed Modes Systems
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 155
Substrate Bounce in Mixed-Mode CMOS ICs
Bram Nauta and Gian Hoogzaad .................................................................................. 157
Technology Impacts on Substrate Noise
Fran<;ois J.R. Clement ................................................................................................... 173
Design Techniques to Reduce Substrate Noise
Tallis Blalack ................................................................................................................. 193
1.2 Gb/s CMLTransceiver with 1M CMOS ATMlSDH Processor in a
BICMOS Monochip
Laurent Dugoujon ......................................................................................................... 219
Modeling Noise Coupling in Mixed-SignallRF ICs
Nishath K. Verghese ..................................................................................................... 237
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Top-Down Design of Mixed-Mode Systems: Challenges and Solutions
Georges G.E. Gielen ...................................................................................................... 269
Part III -Low-noise and RF power Amplifies for the communication
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 301
The Design of Narrowband CMOS RF Low-Noise Amplifiers
Thomas H. Lee .............................................................................................................. 303
Design of Broadband Low-Noise Amplifiers in Deep-Submicron CMOS
Technologies
Johan Janssens and Michiel Steyaert ............................................................................ 317
Put your power into SOA LNAs!
Peter Baltus .................................................................................................................... 337
Radio Transceiver Circuits in Silicon Germanium
Jan Sevenhans and Bart Verstraeten ............................................................................. 359
Modeling for Si-Bipolar Power Amplifiers
Stephen Weber .............................................................................................................. 379
Design Considerations for GaAs MESFET RF Power Amplifiers
Stewart Taylor ............................................................................................................... 395
Preface
This book contains the revised contributions of 18 tutorial speakers at
the seventh AACD '98 in Copenhagen, April 28-30, 1998. The
conference was organized by OIe Olesen, ofthe Technical University
of Denmark. The pro gram committee consisted of Johan H. Huijsing
from Delft University ofTechnology, The Netherlands, Willy Samsen
from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium and Rudy J. van de
Plassche, Philips Research, The Netherlands.
The pro gram was concentrated around three important topics in
analog circuit design. Each of these three topics has been covered by
six papers. Each of the three chapters of this book contains the six
papers of one topic. The three topics are:
I-Volt Electronics
Design and implementation ofMixed Modes Systems.
Low-Noise and RF power Amplifies for the communication.
Other topics, which have been covered in this series before are:
1992 OpAmps
ADC's
AnalogCAD.
1993 Mixed-Mode AlD design
Sensor Interfaces
Communication circuits.
1994 Low-Power low-Voltage
Integrated Filters
Smart Power.
1995 Low-Noise, Low-Power, Low-Voltage
Mixed Mode with CAD Tirals
Voltage, Current and Time References.
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viii
1996 RF CMOS circuit design
BandpassSigma Delta and other Converters
Translinear circuits.
1997 RF A-D Converters
Sensor and Actuator Interfaces
Low-noise Oscillators, PLL's and and Synthesizers.
We hope to serve the analog design community with these series of
books and plan to continue this series in the future.
Johan H. Huijsing
Preface
1 - Volt Electronics
The strive for more electronics on a chip requires smaller transistor
dimensions. This in turn results in lower breakdown voltages, in the
order of 3 or 2 Volt for mainstream CMOS processes. Hence, together
with low-cost battery use in wireless application, the supply voltages
are forced in the direction of 1.8 Volt and 0.9 Volt.
At such low supply voltages not only digital signal processing but also
analog signal processing has to be performed. The latter imposes a
challenge on the analog circuit designer who finds the dynamic range
of analog signals squeezed between the supply voltage roof and the
noise floor. These circuit design challenges are met by the following 6
papers on 1- Volt electronics.
In the first paperby Wouter Serdijn, TU Delft, the Netherlands, a
general approach for 1-Volt translinear circuit design is presented.
The second paper by Christian Enz and Manfred Punzenberger,
RockweIl, USA, evaluates this approach for 1-Volt log - domain
filter design.
The third paper by Andrea Baschirotto and Rinaldo Castello, Univ. of
Pavia, Italy, describes how a switched capacitor filter can be made
functioning at a supply voltage of 1 Volt using a switched opamp
technique. The fourth paper by Vincenzo Peluso and Michiel Steyaert,
KU. Leuven, Belgium, shows how a sigma delta modulator can be
designed for 1 Volt.
As lowcost battery use for pagers is desired, the design of a 1 Volt
complete RF front end is presented by Ed Callaway, Motorola, USA,
in the fifth paper .
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Finally to breake away from the low-voltage battery supply problem,
the sixth paper by Carel Dijkmans, Philips Research, the Netherlands,
describes the design of DC - DC upconverters that may function at a
primary voltage of 1 Volt.
Johan H. Huijsing
Dynamic Translinear Circuits
Wouter A. Serdijn, Jan Mulder,
Paul Poort, Michiel Kouwenhoven,
Arie van Staveren and Arthur H.M. van Roermund
Delft University of Technology,
Faculty of Information Technology and Systems/DIMES
Electronics Research Laboratory
Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD Delft, The Netherlands
phone: [phone], fax: [phone],
e-mail: [e-mail]
Abstract
A promising new approach to shorten the design trajec
tory of analog integrated circuits without giving up func
tionality is formed by the dass of dynamic translinear cir
cuits. This paper presents a structured design method for
this young, yet rapidly developing, circuit paradigm. As
a design example, a I-V 1.6-JLA dass-AB translinear sinh
integrator for audio filter applications, is presented.
1 Introduction
Electronics design can be considered to be the mapping of a set
of mathematical functions onto silicon. For discrete-time signal
processing systems, of which the digital signal processors (DSPs) to
day are by far the most popular, this comes down to the implemen
tation of a number of difference equations, whereas for continuous
time signal-processing systems, often denoted by the term analog,
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