Design of Analog Baseband Circuits for Wireless Communication Receivers

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Design of Analog Baseband Circuits for Wireless
Communication Receivers
DISSERTATION
Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for
the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the
Graduate School of The Ohio State University
By
Seoung Jae Yoo, B.S., M.S.
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The Ohio State University
2004
Dissertation Committee: Approved by
Mohammed Ismail ElNaggar, Adviser
Joanne E. DeGroat
Adviser
Furrukh Khan
Department of Electrical
Engineering
c Copyright by
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Seoung Jae Yoo
2004
ABSTRACT
This dissertation describes the design and implementation of analog baseband
filter and variable gain amplifiers (VGA) for wireless communication receivers. Since
discrete high-Q image rejection and IF filters are eliminated, fully integrated receiver
architecture demands baseband filters and VGAs which exhibit high linearity and
wide dynamic range. In this dissertation, baseband chains for WLAN receivers and
base station application, and low voltage transresistance based filter and VGA are
presented.
For WLAN receiver, three different baseband chains are introduced in chapter 3.
First baseband chain is designed based on the feed forward compensated amplifier.
Since the amplifier demonstrates high gain bandwidth and phase margin, the opera-
tion of filter is not affected by phase error and finite gain bandwidth of the amplifier.
The feedforward compensated amplifier based filter and VGA are fabricated in 0.5µ
CMOS technology and measured. Second baseband chain is designed based on fully
differential buffer. The fully differential buffer shows the characteristics such as wide
bandwidth, lowoutputimpedance, andhighlinearity, whicharerequiredinthedesign
of wideband filter. Since identical buffer circuits are applied for the design of filter
and VGA, design and optimization time are saved. This baseband chain is fabricated
in 0.18 µ CMOS technology and test results are presented. Third baseband chain
is designed based on the differential difference amplifier(DDA) and folded cascode
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amplifier. The DDA is used to implement wide band width buffer and folded cascode
amplifier is used to design variable gain amplifier. The VGA of this baseband chain
is fabricated in 0.5 µ CMOS technology and tested.
In chapter 4, the band pass filter and VGA for basestation are presented. Since
base station requires strong linearity and power compression behavior, the baseband
chain must demonstrate high linearity and wide dynamic range. To achieve required
linearity, power consumption is increased and the use of nonlinear components is
minimized. Seven filter blocks and five attenuators are cascaded for the realization
of the baseband chain. The baseband chain is fabricated in 0.5 µ CMOS technology.
Finally, in chapter 5, the design of low voltage transresistance amplifier is pre-
sented. The amplifier is operated with 1.8 V supply in 5 V CMOS technology. The
amplifier is implemented to design Tow-Thomas filter and R2R ladder based VGA.
The amplifier and VGA are fabricated in 0.5 µ CMOS technology and tested.
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This is dedicated to my wife and my parents
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to express my utmost thanks and gratitude to Dr. Mohammed Ismail
forproviding anopportunitytoperformresearch atAnalogVLSIlab., TheOhioState
University. Without his guidance, this dissertation would not have been possible. He
has helped me earn a lot of knowledge, and has given me confidence in my field of
study.
I would alos like to thank Prof. Joanne E. DeGroat and Prof. Furrukh Khan for
being part of my candidacy examination and Ph. D. dissertation committee.
I especially appreciate my wife and parents, who always support me and have
made great sacrifice during my study. Without their support and sacrifice, I would
not be able to finish my study.
I would like to thank my colleagues at Analog VLSI Lab. I appreciate their
support and suggestions on my work.
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VITA
March 6, 1971 ..............................Born - Seoul, Korea
March, 1994 - June, 1998 ...................B.S. Electrical Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
June, 1998 - June, 2000 .....................M.S. Electrical Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
July, 2000 - Present ........................ Ph. D. Electrical Engineering,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
January, 2000 - June, 2001 ..................Industrial Fellowship,
by Nokia, Inc.,
Helsinki, Finland
July, 2001 - Present ........................ Graudate Research Assistant,
The Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
FIELDS OF STUDY
Major Field: Electrical Engineering
Studies in Analog Microelectronics and IC Design:
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Page
Abstract . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ii
Dedication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iv
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Vita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi
List of Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . x
List of Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi
Chapters:
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.2 Analog Baseband Filter and VGA in Wireless Communication . . . 3
1.3 Channel Select Filtering and Tradeoffs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.4 Organization of the Dissertation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2. Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 Receiver Architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.1.1 Superheterodyne receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.1.2 Direct Conversion Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.1.3 Wide-Band IF receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.1.4 Digital IF receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2.2 Channel Selection Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2.2.1 Channel Selection Filtering and ADC requirements . . . . . 22
2.3 CMOS Continuous Time Filters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
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2.3.1 Active RC Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
2.3.2 MOSFET-C Filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
2.3.3 OTA-C filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
2.3.4 Tuning of filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3. Design of Filter and VGA for WLAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3.1 FeedforwardcompensatedamplifierbasedfilterandVGAforWLAN
application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3.1.1 Feed forward compensation technique . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3.1.2 Feed-forwardcompensateddifferentialdifferenceamplifier(DDA) 50
3.1.3 Design of active RC filter and VGA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3.1.4 Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
3.2 Fully differential buffer based filter and VGA for WLAN application 66
3.2.1 Fully differential buffer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
3.2.2 Design of the WLAN filter and VGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
3.2.3 Test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
3.3 Folded cascode amplifier and DDA based WLAN VGA and filter . 84
3.3.1 Folded cascode amplifier and Fully differential buffer based
on DDA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3.3.2 DDA based filter and folded cascode amplifier based VGA . 89
3.3.3 Test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
4. Design of Filter and VGA for base station . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
4.1 The base station architectures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
4.2 Design Consideration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
4.2.1 Filter and VGA Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
4.2.2 Trade off between Power consumption and dynamic range . 111
4.3 Design of Filter and VGA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
4.3.1 Fully differential buffer without common mode feedback . . 118
4.3.2 Design of the band pass filter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
4.3.3 Digitally programmable attenuators . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
4.4 Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
5. Filter and VGA based on a Low Voltage Transresistance Amplifier . . . . 136
5.1 Low Voltage Transresistance Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
5.2 Filter and Variable Gain Amplifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
5.3 Test Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
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6. Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
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