A 1.2 mW RDS receiver for portable applications

A 0.9 V 1.2 mA fully integrated radio data system (RDS) receiver for the 88-108 MHz FM broadcasting band is presented. Requiring only a few external components (matching network, VCO inductors, loop filter components), the receiver, which has been integrated in a standard digital 0.18 /spl mu/m CMOS technology, achieves a noise figure of 5 dB and a sensitivity of -86dBm. The circuit can be configured and the RDS data retrieved via an I/sup 2/C interface so that it can very simply be used as a peripheral in any portable application. A 250 kHz low-IF architecture has been devised to minimize the power dissipation of the baseband filters and FM demodulator. The frequency synthesizer consumes 250 /spl mu/A, the RF front-end 450 /spl mu/A while providing 40 dB of gain, the baseband filter and limiters 100 /spl mu/A, and the FM and BPSK analog demodulators 300 /spl mu/A. The chip area is 3.6 mm/sup 2/.

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