A Fully Integrated Discrete-Time Superheterodyne Receiver

The zero/low intermediate frequency (IF) receiver (RX) architecture has enabled full CMOS integration. As the technology scales and wireless standards become ever more challenging, the issues related to time-varying dc offsets, the second-order nonlinearity, and flicker noise become more critical. In this paper, we propose a new architecture of...

A high IIP2 SAW-less superheterodyne receiver with multistage harmonic rejection

In this paper, we propose and demonstrate the first fully integrated surface acoustic wave (SAW)-less superheterodyne receiver (RX) for 4G cellular applications. The RX operates in discrete-time domain and introduces various innovations to simultaneously improve noise and linearity performance while reducing power consumption: a highly linear...

Analysis and Design of I/Q Charge-Sharing Band-Pass-Filter for Superheterodyne Receivers

A complex quadrature charge-sharing (CS) technique is proposed to implement a discrete-time band-pass filter (BPF) with a programmable bandwidth of 20–100 MHz. The BPF is part of a cellular superheterodyne receiver and completely determines the receiver frequency selectivity. It operates at the full sampling rate of up to 5.2 GHz corresponding...