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http://dx.doi.org/10.5573/JSTS.2015.15.3.381

A 85-mW Multistandard Multiband CMOS Mobile TV Tuner for DVB-H/T, T-DMB, and ISDB-T Applications with FM Reception  

Nam, Ilku (Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Pusan National University)
Bae, Jong-Dae (Samsung Electronics)
Moon, Hyunwon (Samsung Electronics, School of Electronic and Electric Engineering, Daegu University)
Park, Byeong-Ha (Samsung Electronics)
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JSTS:Journal of Semiconductor Technology and Science / v.15, no.3, 2015 , pp. 381-389 More about this Journal
Abstract
A fully integrated multistandard multiband CMOS mobile TV tuner with small silicon area and low power consumption is proposed for receiving multiple mobile digital TV signals and FM signal. In order to reduce the silicon area of the multistandard multiband receiver, other RF front-end circuits except LNAs are shared and a local oscillator (LO) signal generation architecture with a single VCO for a frequency synthesizer is proposed. To reduce the low frequency noise and the power consumption, a vertical NPN BJT is used in an analog baseband circuits. The RF tuner IC is implemented in a $0.18-{\mu}m$ CMOS technology. The RF tuner IC satisfies all specifications for DVB-H/T, T-DMB, and ISDB-T with a sufficient margin and a successful demonstration has been carried out for DVB-H/T, T-DMB, and ISDB-T with a digital demodulator.
Keywords
CMOS; DVB-H/T; FM; ISDB-T; mobile TV tuner; multiband; multistandard; T-DMB;
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