A 28 nm CMOS Dual-Band Concurrent WLAN and Narrow Band Transmitter With On-Chip Feedforward TX-to-TX Interference Cancellation Path for Low Antenna-to-Antenna Isolation in IoT Devices

A dual-band, concurrent 2.4G wireless local-area network (WLAN) and 2.4G narrow band (NB) transmitter (TX) with on-chip feedforward TX-to-TX interference cancellation path for low antenna-to-antenna isolation in internet of things (IoT) devices is proposed. The on-chip cancellation path generates a...

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Published in:IEEE journal of solid-state circuits 2024-05, Vol.59 (5), p.1301-1311
Main Authors: Tam, Sai-Wang, Razzaghi, Alireza, Wong, Alden, Narravula, Sridhar, Xu, Weiwei, Loo, Timothy, Kambale, Akash, Lowrance, Asish, Carnu, Ovidiu, Lin, Yui, Tsang, Randy
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
4G mobile communication
Antenna measurements
Antennas
Baluns
Calibration
Cancellation
Class-AB
concurrent transmitter (TX)
Delays
Emission analysis
feedforward
Interference
Interference cancellation
Intermodulation distortion
Internet of Things
internet of things (IoT)
inverse class D
Local area networks
multiradio coexistence
power amplifier (PA)
third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3)
Wireless LAN
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Summary:A dual-band, concurrent 2.4G wireless local-area network (WLAN) and 2.4G narrow band (NB) transmitter (TX) with on-chip feedforward TX-to-TX interference cancellation path for low antenna-to-antenna isolation in internet of things (IoT) devices is proposed. The on-chip cancellation path generates a replica signal of the same magnitude but 180° out-of-phase with respect to the "aggressor" TX signal appearing at the "victim" TX output. An on-chip third-order intermodulation distortion (IMD3) calibration engine carries out the cancellation calibration across all channel combinations in NB and WLAN using an over-the-air antenna-to-antenna channel, and the measured IMD3 product is reduced by 25 dB. Additionally, the maximum output power during concurrent transmission, while meeting the FCC out-of-band emission specification, improves from 10 to 17 dBm across all WLAN channels in a certified FCC out-of-band emission test. With this proposed architecture, the issue of TX-to-TX interference in multiradio coexistence is finally addressed, opening the door to future high-power concurrent multiband TXs in reconfigurable IoT devices.
ISSN:0018-9200
1558-173X
DOI:10.1109/JSSC.2024.3352532