Multi-Mode Receiver Design for Wireless Terminals

Gernot Hueber, Rainer Stuhlberger, Andreas Holm, Andreas Springer

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Abstract

The ongoing evolution from 2G to 3G and beyond confronts the cellular market with the challenges of a broad diversity of communication standards. Furthermore, increasing levels of integration with minimum external component count, advances in semiconductor process technology, and the requirement for multi-mode operation are pivotal demands of the RF-IC manufactures to achieve fast design cycles and low product cost. As a result, reconfiguration of the wireless terminal has become the key issue in the design of wireless terminals. This paper discusses the requirements for multi-mode reconfigurable wireless receivers with focus put onto mixed-signal and digital enhancements to traditional analog front-end designs. The flexibility a digital-front-end (DFE) introduces is studied with respect to the main cellular communication standards (GSM/EDGE, CDMA2000, W-CDMA/HSDPA, and LTE) and satellite navigation systems (GPS, Galileo), with considerations of impacts on the capability of an implementation of a software-defined-radio (SDR).
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2007 European Conference on Wireless Technologies
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages126-129
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)978-2-87487-003-3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 10 Oct 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 European Conference on Wireless Technologies - Munich, Germany
Duration: 8 Oct 200710 Oct 2007

Conference

Conference2007 European Conference on Wireless Technologies
Period8/10/0710/10/07

Keywords

  • Multiaccess communication
  • Satellite navigation systems
  • Global Positioning System
  • Communication standards
  • Signal to noise ratio
  • Integrated circuit technology
  • Design engineering
  • Noise figure
  • Manufacturing processes
  • Semiconductor device manufacture

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