Adaptive Multi-Standard RF Front-Ends

Glossary. Abbreviations. 1 Introduction. 1.1 The state-of-the-art in multi-standard RF transceivers. 1.2 Scope. 1.3 Outline. 2 Front-end architecture selection. 2.1 A generic front-end architecture. 2.2 A set of front-end architectures. 2.3 Selection criteria. 2.4 Selection of a suitable front-end architecture. 2.5 Summary. 3 Broad-band polyphase filters. 3.1 Passive polyphase filter topology. 3.2 RC polyphase filters and their applications. 3.3 Design considerations. 3.4 Summary. 4 Analysis of low-IF architectures. 4.1 Noise and voltage gain analysis in a low-IF front-end. 4.2 Linearity analysis. 4.3 Image rejection analysis. 4.4 Summary. 5 RF and building block specifications. 5.1 RF specifications. 5.2 Distribution of building block specifications. 5.3 Summary. 6 A low-voltage folded switching mixer. 6.1 Transconductors for folded switching mixers. 6.2 AC-coupled folded switching mixer with current-reuse. 6.3 Simulation and experimental results. 6.4 Mixer benchmarking. 6.5 Summary. 7 Multi-band reconfigurable complex mixer. 7.1 1.9 - 2.4 GHz reconfigurable complex mixer. 7.2 1.9 - 2.4 GHz conventional complex mixer. 7.3 Summary. 8 Reconfigurable multi-band LNA. 8.1 Design considerations. 8.2 Design procedure. 8.3 Design example. 8.4 A reconfigurable multi-band DECT/Bluetooth LNA. 8.5 Summary. 9 Reconfigurable multi-band RF front-end. 10 Conclusions. A RF, system and bulding block specifications. B Noise factor of a two-port network. C Noise factor of a passive RF block. References.