Simulating Overall Performance Requirements for Transmitters in IMT2000 FDD User Equipment. Per Madsen Telital R&D Denmark A/S, pma-telital.dk KEYWORDS EVM, ACLR, I/Q imbalance, Phase noise, third order inter-modulation, power amplifiers ABSTRACT This work analyses the effects that various overall non-ideal circuit parameters have on EVM and ACLR. The analysis includes ( i) analytical expressions

FUTURE MOBILE NETWORKS J. M. Irvine1, R. Tafazolli2 and I. S. Groves3 1 University of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW UK j.m.irvine-strath.ac.uk 2 University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH UK R.Tafazolli-eim.surrey.ac.uk 3 King's College London, The Strand, London WC2R 2LS UK ian.groves-kcl.ac.uk Future mobile networks will have to provide enhanced services to increasing num

Designing RFICs to Profit from Commercial Wireless Applications J. Mikulsky, D. Lockie, M. Vaughan, C. Mohwinkel, E. Johnson, M. Falkner, E. Stoneham Endwave Corporation 990 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 john.mikulsky-endwave.com ABSTRACT Today's RF engineer designing for the commercial wireless telecommunications market is under increasing pressure to consider business factors as much as te

Highly Linear Low Voltage GaAs pHEMT MMIC Switches for Multimode Wireless Handset Applications Michael Roberts, Lutfi Albasha*, Wolfgang Bosch, Damian Gotch, James Mayock, Pallavi Sandhiya, Ian Bisby. Global Technology Group Filtronic Plc. Saltaire, BD18 3TT United Kingdom *Now with Sony Semiconductor Europe Abstract A true 3V highly linear low loss single pole five throw (SP5T) switch for multim

Fully Integrated Low Phase Noise VCO with Auto-Calibration In SiGe BiCMOS Technology Xudong Wang, Dawn Wang, Danny Chang, Aria Eshraghi, Peter Bacon, Victoria Pereira, Paul Rivenburgh, and Kurt Schelkle IBM Microelectronics Division, 900 Chelmsford Street, Tower 1, 8th Floor, Lowell, MA 01851, U.S.A Tel: 978-322-1189, Fax: 978-322-1220, Email: Xudong-us.ibm.com ABSTRACT A 3GHz low phase noise vol

Design Considerations for Direct Conversion Receiver Using Five-Port Circuit Mohamed Ratni1, Dragan Krupezevic1, Veselin Brankovic1 Masayoshi Abe2, Noboru Sasho2 1 Sony International Europe GmbH, Germany. Telecommunication Research & Development Europe Advanced Technology Center Stuttgart. 2 MS Devices & Circuits Dept., Mixed Devices Division, Semiconductor Company, Core technology Network Co. Son

High Resolution Spectral Estimation Methods for Transmitter Position Estimation in SDMA-Systems Walter Fisch, Vitali Chtchekatourov, Peter Russer Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universität München Arcisstraße 21, 80333 München, Germany, e-mail: fisch-ei.tum.de Abstract In this paper different transmitter position estimation methods in SDMA-systems are presented. To achieve the requ

HIGH RESOLUTION PARAMETER ESTIMATION METHODS FOR CONFORMAL ANTENNA ARRAYS Tuan Do-Hong*, Vitali Chtchekatourov*, Peter Russer* *Lehrstuhl fuer Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Arcisstrasse 21, D-80333 Muenchen, Germany. E-mail: dotuan-hft.ei.tum.de ABSTRACT This paper presents narrowband- and wideband high-resolution direction-finding techniques for smart antennas based on c

Pencil-of-Function Method for Transmitter Position Estimation in SDMA-Systems Walter Fisch, Vitali Chtchekatourov, Peter Russer Lehrstuhl für Hochfrequenztechnik, Technische Universität München Arcisstraße 21, 80333 München, Germany, e-mail: fisch-ei.tum.de Abstract In this paper the Pencil-of-Function (PoF) method based on an eigenvalue decomposition is used to detect and estimate the transmitte

Advances in Thin Film Techniques for Optical, Microwave and Millimeter wave Circuit Applications K.Callery & P.Lowbridge 1 2 1. Aeroflex MIC Technology Corporation, 100 Andover By Pass, North Andover, MA 01845, USA Tel 001-978-687-9625 Fax 001-978-687-9721 E-mail: kcallery-mic.aeroflex.com 2. Novacom Microwave Ltd, Unit 6, 22 The Green, Nettleham, Lincoln, LN2 2NR, England, UK Tel +44 1522 751136