Description

The increasing demand on wireless networks to provide faster data links to customers has driven transceiver hardware to increasingly demanding performance with enough bandwidth to support the largest standardized multi-carrier frequency bands (with band aggregation in some cases) and enough receiver sensitivity and dynamic range to function in the presence of the strong blocking signals common in busy environments. This reference design describes a radio frequency (RF) receiver reference design with 16-bit sampler that achieves more than 100 MHz of bandwidth including a down-converting mixer: digital variable gain amplifier (DVGA): high speed pipelined analog-to-digital converter (ADC): local oscillator (LO) RF synthesizer and jitter-cleaning clock generator.