A SAW-Less Tunable RF Front End for FDD and IBFD Combining an Electrical-Balance Duplexer and a Switched-LC N-Path LNA
A SAW-Less Tunable RF Front End for FDD and IBFD Combining an Electrical-Balance Duplexer and a Switched-LC N-Path LNA
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用于 FDD 和 IBFD 的无 SAW 可调谐 RF 前端,结合电平衡双工器和开关 LC N 路径 LNA
DOI:
10.1109/jssc.2018.2791477
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
5.4
通讯作者:
J. Craninckx
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作者:
Gengzhen Qi;B. van Liempd;Pui;R. Martins;J. Craninckx
This paper proposes a surface-acoustic wave (SAW)-less tunable RF front end (RF-FE) using an electrical-balance duplexer (EBD) integrated with a switched-LC N-path low-noise amplifier (LNA). The EBD cancels the transmitter–receiver (TX–RX) leakage at the RX frequency by dynamically optimizing the balance of a hybrid transformer, which enables in-band full-duplex (IBFD) operation. A transconductor-based LNA in parallel with a switched-LC N-path network creates input and output notches to reject TX leakage for frequency-division duplexing (FDD) operation. The LNA’s signal-handling capability is enhanced via optimum switch biasing. Fabricated in 0.18-<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu \text{m}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> SOI CMOS, the RF-FE offers >50-dB tunable rejection from the TX port to LNA output at both TX and RX frequencies, for all 3GPP bands from 0.7 to 1 GHz (i.e., FDD case). It is the first tunable RF-FE including an LNA that achieves +70-dBm TX-path IIP<sub>3</sub>, and <−100-dBm IM<sub>3</sub> at +20-dBm TX power when a full-duplex spaced jammer is applied at the antenna (FDD case). It is also the first to handle >+30-dBm in-band TX power while cancelling the self-interference by >50 dB (i.e., IBFD case). The RF-FE consumes 62.5 mW at 1 GHz with 11.7-dB RX cascaded NF, 3.6-dB TX insertion loss, and 9.62 mm<sup>2</sup> active area.