A 5.8 GHz RF Receiver Front-End With 77.6 dB Dynamic Range AGC for a DSRC Transceiver

Reza E. Rad; Arash Hejazi; Sungjin Kim; Younggun Pu; Joon Tae Kim; Keum Cheol Hwang; Youngoo Yang; Kang Yoon Lee

doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3142913

A 5.8 GHz RF Receiver Front-End With 77.6 dB Dynamic Range AGC for a DSRC Transceiver

Reza E. Rad, Arash Hejazi, Sungjin Kim, Younggun Pu, Joon Tae Kim, Keum Cheol Hwang, Youngoo Yang, Kang Yoon Lee

Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering

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This paper presents a 5.8 GHz highly sensitive, high-dynamic-range RF receiver front-end with Automatic-Gain Control (AGC) and a high image-rejection for a Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) application. It is formed by a transceiver common matching, a single to differential Low-Noise Amplifier (LNA), an active mixer with an Image Rejection Filter, and an AGC unit. The proposed AGC unit is composed of a power-detector over the intermediate-frequency signals of the downconverter mixer. The power detector produces a wide dynamic range response signal, which eases the controllability of the AGC unit. In addition, external components are minimized, and area occupation is optimized. The proposed RF-FE is fabricated and measured in a 130-nm RF CMOS process. Experimental results show an overall dynamic range of 77.6 dB while a high sensitivity performance to an input power level of −85 dBm is measured. An overall gain of 26.4 dB for the RF-FE is obtained. The input referred P1dB is measured to be around −28.3 dBm. The 2-stage RC poly-phase filter that is applied to reject the image signal results in a maximum image rejection ratio of 39 dB.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	8133-8139
Number of pages	7
Journal	IEEE Access
Volume	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3142913
State	Published - 2022

Keywords

Dedicated short range communication
Gain
Gain control
Mixers
Radio frequency
Receivers
Switches

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