Title
A 9-band WCDMA/EDGE transceiver supporting HSPA evolution
Abstract
The future of cellular radio ICs lies in the integration of an ever-increasing number of bands and channel bandwidths. This paper presents a transceiver together with the associated discrete front-end components. The transceiver supports 4 EDGE bands and 9 WCDMA bands (l-VI and Vlll-X), while the radio can be configured to simultaneously support the 4 EDGE bands and up to 5 WCDMA bands: 3 high bands (HB) and 2 low bands (LB). The RX is a SAW-less homodyne composed of a main RX and a diversity RX. To reduce package complexity with so many bands, we chose to minimize the number of ports by using single-ended RF interfaces for both RX and TX. This saves seve ral package pins, but requires careful attention to grounding. The main RX has 8 LNA ports and the diversity RX has 5, with some LNAs supporting multiple bands. On the TX side, 2 ports are used for all EDGE bands and 4 for the WCDMA bands.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/ISSCC.2011.5746356
Solid-State Circuits Conference Digest of Technical Papers
Keywords
Field
DocType
3g mobile communication,cellular radio,code division multiple access,9-band wcdma/edge transceiver,edge bands,hspa evolution,saw-less homodyne,wcdma bands,cellular radio ic,single-ended rf interfaces,phase locked loops,phase lock loop,spread spectrum communication,transceivers,radio frequency,modulation
Phase-locked loop,Transceiver,UMTS frequency bands,Computer science,Radio frequency,Electronic engineering,Modulation,Code division multiple access,Electrical engineering,Direct-conversion receiver,Spread spectrum
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
0193-6530
978-1-61284-303-2
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.68
3
41