Microwave Dual-Conversion Front-Ends for 0.1-50 GHz Reconfigurable Transceivers

Abstract

We report the design and demonstration of wideband, high-dynamic-range integrated circuits (ICs) for 1-20GHz and1-40GHz dual-conversion receivers. The ICs upconvert from 2-22GHz to a 94GHz first intermediate frequency (IF),and then downcovert to a second IF or to baseband. For a 0.5-22GHz input, the upconversion ICs have 19-29dBm IIP3,and <9dB insertion loss and noise figure. If preceded by a low noise amplifier with 12dB gain and 2dB noise figure, the receiver would have 6.7dB noise figure and 11dBm IIP3. Spurious local oscillator (LO) harmonic responses are high due to an easily-rectified design error; without this, the receiver LO spurious responses would have been c.a. -40 to 45dBc.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 2018
Accession Number
AD1064313

Entities

People

  • Arda Simsek
  • Mark J. W. Rodwell
  • Rob Maurer
  • Seong-Kyun Kim

Organizations

  • University of California Regents

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Electronic Warfare
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Amplifiers
  • Bandwidth
  • Dynamic Range
  • Field Effect Transistors
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Bands
  • Gain
  • Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
  • High Dynamic Range
  • Insertion Loss
  • Local Oscillators
  • Oscillators
  • Radio Frequency
  • Semiconductors
  • Transmitters

Readers

  • Electronics Engineering
  • Military Engineering.
  • Radio communications and signal processing.