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A Compensation and Calibration Technique for Lumped Hybrid Couplers in Integrated Image-Reject Architectures


Abstract:

This paper presents a compensation and calibration technique for lumped-element Lange hybrid couplers. The target of the compensation is the reduction of the quadrature e...Show More

Abstract:

This paper presents a compensation and calibration technique for lumped-element Lange hybrid couplers. The target of the compensation is the reduction of the quadrature error introduced by lossy reactive components. An approximated, but reasonably accurate, analysis links the finite quality factor of the passive components to the quadrature error. A simple compensation technique, that corrects for the quadrature error, is proposed along with a calibration procedure. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed technique, a lumped-element Lange hybrid coupler working at an intermediate frequency of 3GHz is embedded in a fully integrated image-reject up/down-converter implemented in a 28nm bulk CMOS technology. Measurements show that the proposed technique yields an increase of the image rejection ratio from 24dB to 45dB for an up converted signal at 28GHz.
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers ( Volume: 70, Issue: 2, February 2023)
Page(s): 607 - 617
Date of Publication: 15 November 2022

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