Beamformer with constant-Gm vector modulators and its spatial intermodulation distortion

Spatial interference rejection in analog adaptive beamforming receivers can improve the distortion performance of the circuits following the beamforming network, but is susceptible to the nonlinearity of the beamforming network itself. This paper presents an analysis of intermodulation product cancellation in analog active phased array receivers...

3.5 A 1.0-to-2.5GHz beamforming receiver with constant-Gm vector modulator consuming < 9mW per antenna element in 65nm CMOS

Beamforming phased-array receivers aim to increase receiver sensitivity and reject interferers in the spatial domain [1,2]. A receiver with programmable phase shift and high linearity is crucial to cope with interference. Switched-capacitor vector modulators can provide adequate phase shift and linearity [3,4], but so far, at the cost of a high...

Advance in silicon phased-array receiver IC's

Phased-Arrays are increasingly used, and require Silicon implementations to result in affordable multi-beam systems. In this paper, CMOS implementations of two novel analogue beamforming multi-channel receivers will be presented. A narrow-band highly linear system exploiting switches and capacitors in advanced CMOS is presented, implementing a...

A 1.0-to-4.0GHz 65nm CMOS four-element beamforming receiver using a switched-capacitor vector modulator with approximate sine weighting via charge redistribution

Phased-array receivers provide two major benefits over single-antenna receivers [1]. Their signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) doubles for each doubling in the number of elements, resulting in extended range. Secondly, interferers can be rejected in the spatial domain for increased link robustness. These arrays can be implemented by phase shifting and...

Unified Frequency-Domain Analysis of Switched-Series-RC Passive Mixers and Samplers

A wide variety of voltage mixers and samplers are implemented with similar circuits employing switches, resistors, and capacitors. Restrictions on duty cycle, bandwidth, or output frequency are commonly used to obtain an analytical expression for the response of these circuits. This paper derives unified expressions without these restrictions....