A monolithic CMOS L band DAB receiver

This paper presents a fully integrated CMOS low-IF receiver working at L-band for DAB application. An image-rejection low noise amplifier (LNA) supplies over 30dB image rejection in the whole band. A calibration circuit improves matching of quadrature LO signals. Together with the quadrature weaver architecture, the receiver rejects the image signal more than 65dB. The receiver's noise figure is 4dB and OIP3 is 22dBm. The receiver is implemented in 0.25/spl mu/m CMOS process. The core die area is 9mm/sup 2/.

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