Industry News

A 5 GHz 0.18 µm CMOS Mixer for 802.11a WLAN Receiver Applications

This article presents a 5.7 GHz CMOS single-balanced mixer for an IEEE 802.11a WLAN receiver application. The RF input frequency of the mixer is 5.725 to 5.825 GHz, the LO frequency is 5.445 to 5.545 GHz and the IF is 280 MHz. The mixer is fabricated w...
Due to the fast growing demand for broadband wireless communications, the operating frequency band is moving toward the 5 GHz U-NII band. The advantage of combining baseband and the RF front-end on a single chip for cost savings is strongly desired for highly integrated systems-on-chip (SoC) applications. Due to...
Read More

Printed Circuit Realization of a Capacitive-loaded Interdigital Bandpass Filter

A tapped capacitive-loaded interdigital bandpass filter has been realized using multicoupled suspended substrate stripline (MCSSS). Composite effects of multiple quasi-TEM modes and coupling between non-adjacent strips have been accounted for. Two filt...
The demand for small, compact, low cost, high performance filters, diplexers and multiplexers using MIC technologies has increased along with advances in microwave systems. Capacitive-loaded interdigital filters are compact in size, have sharp roll factor, excellent broad stopband performance and are easy to fabricate. A filter with tapped-line is...
Read More

Design of a 5.7 GHz 0.18 µm CMOS Current-reused LNA for an 802.11a WLAN Receiver

This article presents the design, implementation and measurement of a 5.7 GHz CMOS LNA for an IEEE 802.11a WLAN receiver. The LNA, fabricated with the 0.18 µm 1P6M standard CMOS process, uses a current-reuse technology to increase linear gain and save ...
Due to the fast growing demand for broadband wireless communications, the operating frequency band is moving toward the 5 GHz U-NII band. The advantage of combining baseband and the RF front-end on one single chip for cost savings is strongly desired for highly integrated systems-on-chip (SoC) applications. Due to...
Read More

A Fully-integrated 2.4/5.7 GHz Concurrent Dual-band 0.18 µm CMOS LNA for an 802.11 WLAN Direct Conversion Receiver

This article describes a 2.4/5.7 GHz concurrent dual-band CMOS LNA for 802.11 WLAN direct conversion receiver (DCR) applications using 0.18 mm technology. A fully-integrated dual-band LNA was designed, which simultaneously provides narrow-band gain and...
Fig. 1 IEEE 802.11 WLAN frequency allocations. t Due to the rapidly growing demand for broadband wireless communication, the operating frequency is moving toward the 5 GHz U-NII band. With a maximum data rate of 54 Mb/s, the IEEE 802.11a wireless LAN (WLAN) standard specifies 300 MHz allocation of...
Read More

Small-sized Quasi-elliptic Function Microstrip Low Pass Filter Based on Defected Ground Structures and Open Stubs

In this article, a microstrip structure for a small-sized elliptic function low pass filter (LPF) is developed from a modified dumbbell-shaped defected ground structure (DGS) and additional open stubs. The steps taken in developing the structure are pr...
Defected ground structures (DGS) etched in the metallic ground plane of microstrip lines, also known as photonic bandgap (PBG) structures, are attractive to obtain unwanted frequency rejection and circuit size reduction. Research on the PBG was originally carried out in the optical regime 1,2 and has recently started with...
Read More

New Products

Manual Variable Attenuators This series of 2 W manual variable attenuators offers users a wide choice of attenuation ranges from 0 to 10 dB in 1 dB steps up to 0 to 110 dB in 1 dB steps. This series of attenuators covers a frequency range of DC to...
Read More

Around the Circuit

Industry News Elcoteq Network Corp. and Tellabs International announced that they have signed an agreement whereby Tellabs will outsource manufacturing of its international products and transfer ownership of its Espoo, Finland manufacturing operations to Elcoteq. The deal primarily involves manufacturing of Tellabs’ digital optical cross-connection products and broadband access...
Read More

New Literature

Service Brochure This brochure focuses on the company’s core technologies that include support in the design, development and fabrication of complex, ASICs and MMICs to meet specific design requirements. Areas of focus, design and manufacturing support, modeling, characterization and design services are also highlighted. ACCO USA Corp., Littleton, MA...
Read More