Low Power Emerging Wireless Technologies

4	Receiver Front Ends with Robustness to Process Variations
Pooyan Sakian Dezfuli, Reza Mahmoudi, and Arthur van Roermund

CONTENTS

4.1    Bit Error Rate, Noise, Gain, and Nonlinearity

4.2    Performance Requirements

4.3    Block-Level Impact

4.3.1    General Case

4.3.2    Special Case: Zero-IF Receiver and Worst-Case Nonlinearity

4.4    Sensitivity to Block-Level Performance

4.4.1    General Case

4.4.2    Special Case: Zero-IF Receiver and Worst-Case Nonlinearity

4.5    Design for Robustness

4.5.1    Constant-Sensitivity Approach

4.5.2    Reduced Second-Order Sensitivity Approach

4.5.3    Optimum-Power Design

4.5.4    Summary and Discussion

4.6    Case Study

4.6.1    Receiver without ADC

4.6.2    Receiver with ADC

4.7    Adjustment of ...