Design of an Active N-Path Filter for 5G mm-wave Receivers

Receivers for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) 5G, with the ability to detect a low-power desired signal, in the vicinity of large power blockers, require highly linear circuitry with a large power consumption. Suppressing the out-of-band blockers reduces this power consumption. N-path filters (NPFs) have recently been used to reject interferers in...

Reciprocal mixing and inherent nonlinearity in N-path filters

N-path filters promise to miniaturize RF receivers by replacing various fixed off-chip filters with a single programmable on-chip filter. This research investigates some of the issues of receivers with N-path filters under strong blocker conditions: reciprocal mixing and inherent nonlinearity. First, a technique for reciprocal mixing...