A 0.1–0.95 GHz Full-Duplex Receiver With < 1 dB NF Degradation Using a Passive Continuous-Mode Charge-Sharing Vector Modulator

Abstract

This paper presents a frequency-agile in-band full-duplex (FD) receiver based on a switched-capacitor continuous-mode vector modulator (VM). The passive VM presented in this paper provides simultaneous downmixing, attenuation, and phase shifting and is used to generate a baseband canceler signal for self-interference (SI) cancelation. A prototype FD receiver is implemented in CMOS 130 nm technology. The receiver is tunable from 0.1 to 0.95 GHz. In FD mode at 900 MHz, the receiver has an effective input-referred third-order intercept power (IIP3) of +7 dBm, SI-to-noise-and-distortion-ratio (SINDR) of ≈ +65.3 dB at −27.5 dBm SI in 15 MHz bandwidth, and noise figure (NF) degradation of less than 1 dB.