Adaptive blocker rejection continuous-time ∑Δ ADC for mobile wiMAX applications

Hyungseok Kim, Junghan Lee, Tino Copani, Seyfi Bazarjani, Sayfe Kiaei, Bertan Bakkaloglu

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Abstract

An adaptive blocker-rejection wideband continuous-time (CT) sigma-delta (∑Δ) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is presented. An integrated blocker detector reconfigures the ADC loop architecture to avoid overloading in the presence of strong interferers, improving receiver channel selectivity and sensitivity without increasing its dynamic range (DR) requirements. The adaptive operation relaxes receiver baseband channel filtering requirements for a Worldwide Inter-operability for Microwave Access (WiMAX, IEEE 802.16e) receiver. The ADC achieves 71 dB of dynamic range (DR), 65 dB of peak SNDR and 68 dB of peak SNR over a 10 MHz signal bandwidth, consuming 18 mW from a 1.2 V supply. The ADC system reconfigures the loop filter topology within 51 μs, improving receiver selectivity without any transient impact on BER. In the blocker suppression mode, the ADC can withstand 30 dBc blocker at the adjacent channel, achieving -22 dB error vector magnitude (EVM) with a 24 Mb/s 16-QAM signal. The IC is fabricated on a 130 nm 8-level metal, metalinsulatormetal (MIM) capacitor, CMOS technology, occupying 1.5×0.9 mm2 silicon area.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number19
Pages (from-to)2766-2779
Number of pages14
JournalIEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits
Volume44
Issue number10
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 2009

Keywords

  • Adaptive blocker rejection
  • Analog-to-digital conversion
  • Continuous-time ∑Δ ADC
  • WiMAX

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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