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Design, fabrication, and evaluation of RF module in compliance with the IEEE 802.11a standard for 5GHz-band Wireless-LAN applications

IEEE 802.11a 규격을 만족하는 5GHz 대역 무선 랜용 RF 모듈의 설계, 제작과 성능 평가

  • Published : 2002.03.01
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Abstract

An RF module in compliance with the IEEE 802.11a standard has been designed and its performance has been measured. Conventional heterodyne architecture with 580MHz intermediate frequency has been realized. Measurement results show that the receiver has a low Noise Figure of 5dB, the maximum gain of 70dB, and dynamic range as wide as 61dB. Also, the SAW filter used for channel selection in the IF section allowed minimum inter-channel interference. in addition to satisfying the RF output power requirement, the transmitter features its output P1dB as high as 34dBm so that the high peak-to-average ratio of the Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) modulation scheme can be handled with minimum nonlinear distortion. The output P1dB of 34dBm of the transmitter corresponds to back-off powers of 18dB and 11dB with respect to the output power for the low and the middle frequency bands, respectively.

IEEE 802.11a 무선 랜 규격을 만족하는 RF 송수신기를 모듈의 형태로 제작하고 성능을 평가하였다. 주파수 변환 방식은 520MHz의 중간 주파수를 갖는 헤테로다인 구조를 채택하였다. 측정 결과 수신기는 잡음지수 5dB, 최대 이득 70dB, 그리고 61dB의 넓은 입력 동작 범위를 얻었다. 또한 중간 주파수 대역의 채널 선정 필터는 SAW 필터를 채용하여 채널간의 간섭 잡음을 최소화하였다. 송신기는 규격에 정의된 정격 출력을 만족하는 동시에 34dBm의 출력 P1dB를 가져 낮은 대역, 중간 대역에 대해 각각 18dB, 11dB의 출력 여유분을 보유함으로써 직교 주파수 분할 다중(OFDM) 변조방식의 큰 평균대비 최고 출력 비율에 대응하였다.

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