CMOS radio frequency receiving front end with wide temperature work gain automatic control function

Abstract

The invention discloses a CMOS radio frequency receiving front end with a wide temperature work gain automatic control function. The front end comprises a radio frequency single end-difference converting circuit, a local oscillator single end-difference converting circuit, a Gilbert frequency mixing circuit, a variable gain amplifier, an output driving circuit, a band gap reference based current bias circuit and a gain automatic control circuit. The radio frequency single end-difference converting circuit and the local oscillator single end-difference converting circuit respectively convert input single-end receiving signals and local oscillator signals into difference signals, the difference output driving the Gilbert frequency mixing circuit is connected with the variable gain amplifier, then difference-single end conversion is carried out through the output driving circuit, and finally intermediate frequency output is performed. The current bias circuit outputs five paths of reference currents from Iref1 to Iref5 respectively to the tail current tube circuits of the Gilbert frequency mixing circuit, the variable gain amplifier, the output driving circuit and the gain automatic control circuit for current biasing.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to a CMOS radio frequency receiving front-end with the function of automatic control of wide temperature working gain. In the radio frequency receiving front-end chip realized based on CMOS technology, the current bias technology based on the bandgap reference source and the temperature self-adaptive gain adjustment method are used to realize the realization The gain automatic control of the whole chip in a wide temperature range is suitable for various radio receiver RF front-end circuits. Background technique [0002] The RF front-end of a radio receiver generally includes basic circuits such as low-noise amplifiers, mixers, variable gain amplifiers, and intermediate frequency amplifiers. When designing these basic circuit units using CMOS technology, the equivalent gain can be expressed as: [0003] G=A·g m_eff · R L [0004] Among them, A is a coefficient related to the circuit type. For example, A is generally 1 in an ampl...

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[0013] The purpose of the present invention is to solve the problem that the gain of the radio frequency receiving front-end circuit fluctuates with temperature, and overcome the disadvantages of increased design difficulty, noise performance deterioration, limitations on process selection, and affecting the working bandwidth of the circuit cause

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