Low Power Emerging Wireless Technologies

9	A Low Noise, Low Distortion Radio Design
Ahmet Tekin and Hassan Elwan

CONTENTS

9.1    Noise–Linearity Trade-Off in Radio Design

9.2    Front-End LNA Noise

9.2.1    LNA Noise Consideration

9.2.2    Noise-Canceling LNA

9.3    Baseband Noise

9.3.1    Noise-Shaping, Blocker-Filtering Technique for Low Noise Integrated Receivers

9.3.2    Low Noise Gain Stage with Noise-Shaping Blocker Suppression

9.3.3    Current-Mode Noise-Shaped Filtering

9.4    Blixelter: Single-Stage Balun–LNA–Mixer–Filter Combo Topology

9.5    Conclusion

References

9.1    NOISE–LINEARITY TRADE-OFF IN RADIO DESIGN

Various wireless standards have emerged in recent years as a result of strong consumer demand for wireless applications [1,2]. The introduction of digital ...