Showing papers on "Legacy mode published in 2017"

High Performance Receiver Design for RX Carrier Aggregation

Abstract: Carrier aggregation is one of the key features to increase the data rate given a scarce bandwidth spectrum. This paper describes the design of a high performance receiver suitable for carrier aggregation in LTE-Advanced and future 5 G standards. The proposed architecture is versatile to support legacy mode (single carrier), inter-band carrier aggregation, and intra-band carrier aggregation. Performance with carrier-aggregation support is as good as legacy receivers. Contradicting requirements of high linearity and the low noise is satisfied with the single-gm receiver architecture in addition to supporting carrier aggregation. The proposed cascode-shutoff low-noise trans-conductance amplifier (LNTA) achieves 57.1 dB voltage gain, 1.76 dB NF (noise figure) , and - 6 . 7 dBm IIP3 (Third-order intercept point) with the power consumption of 21.3 mW in the intra-band carrier aggregation scenario. With legacy mode, the same receiver signal path achieves 56.6 dB voltage gain, 1.33 dB NF, and - 6 . 2 dBm IIP3 with a low power consumption of 7.4 mW.

Receiving GSM broadcast channels with an ultra-low power sub-GHz transceiver

Abstract: Mobile phone front-end and baseband modules are hard to obtain on the market for end customers. Thus, software defined radios are widely used in research and development, enabling many opportunities for digital signal processing. In this publication a novel option to receive GSM signals is suggested by using an ultra-low power Sub-GHz transceiver in a legacy mode. The device outputs raw demodulated bits while the signal processing is realized in software. The functionality is proven and quantified by measurements.