AD6458
2.0
1.9
TA = –40°C
1.8
1.7
TA = –25°C
1.6
1.5
TA = +25°C
1.4
1.3
TA = +85°C
1.2
1.1
1.0
0
0.5
1.0
1.5
2.0
2.5
VGAIN – Volts
Figure 29. Minimum Power-Up Voltage vs VGAIN, VPOS =
3.0 V, VREF = 1.2 V
PRODUCT OVERVIEW
The AD6458 provides most of the active circuitry required to
realize a complete low power, single-conversion superhetero-
dyne receiver, or the latter part of a double-conversion receiver,
at input frequencies up to 400 MHz, with an IF from 5 MHz to
50 MHz. The internal I/Q demodulators, and their associated
phase-locked loop, support a wide variety of modulation modes,
including n-PSK, n-QAM, and GMSK. A single positive supply
voltage of 3.3 V is required (3.0 V minimum, 3.6 V maximum)
at a typical supply current of 9 mA at midgain. In the following
discussion, VPOS will be used to denote the power supply volt-
age, which will be assumed to be 3.3 V.
Figure 31 shows the main sections of the AD6458. It consists of
a variable-gain UHF mixer and linear two-stage IF strip, which
together provide a calibrated voltage-controlled gain range of
more than 76 dB, followed by dual quadrature demodulators.
These are driven by inphase and quadrature clocks generated by
a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL), which is locked to a corrected
external reference. A CMOS-compatible power-down interface
completes the AD6458.
Mixer
The UHF mixer is an improved Gilbert-cell design, and can
operate from low frequencies (it is internally dc-coupled) up to
an RF input of 400 MHz. The dynamic range at the input of the
mixer is determined at the upper end by the maximum input
signal level of ± 56 mV (–15 dBm in 50 Ω between RFHI and
RFLO) up to which the mixer remains linear and, at the lower
end, by the noise level. It is customary to define the linearity of
a mixer in terms of the 1 dB gain-compression point and third-
order intercept, which for the AD6458 are –12 dBm and
–2 dBm, respectively, in a 50 Ω system.
The mixer’s RF input port is differential; that is, pin RFLO is
functionally identical to RFHI, and these nodes are internally
biased. The RF port can be modeled as a parallel RC circuit as
shown in Figure 30.
RFHI
RFLO
CSH
RSH
Figure 30. Mixer Port Modeled as a Parallel RC Network
The local oscillator (LO) input is internally biased at VP – 0.8 V
and must be ac coupled. The LO interface includes a preampli-
fier which minimizes the drive requirements, thus simplifying
the oscillator design and reducing LO leakage from the RF port.
The LO requires a single-sided drive of ± 50 mV, or –16 dBm in
a 50 Ω system. For operation above 300 MHz noise figure can
be improved by increasing the LO level.
The output of the mixer is single ended with a 330 Ω impedance
for driving ceramic filters.
The conversion gain is measured between the mixer input and
the input of this filter, and varies between –9 dB and +10 dB as
a function of the voltage at Pin GAIN.
The maximum permissible signal level at Pin MXOP is deter-
mined by the maximum gain control voltage.
The mixer output port is shown in Figure 32.
LO INPUT
–16dBm
LOIP
4
RF INPUT RFHI 6
–95dBm TO
–15dBm RFLO 5
VPS1 20
VPS2 18
PRUP 3
MXOP
9
13MHz
CERAMIC
BANDPASS
FILTER
330Ω
0.1µF
11 IFIP
12
IFIM
AGC VOLTAGE
BIAS
CIRCUIT
2
COM1
7
COM2
AD6458
0°
PLL
90°
4.7kΩ
17 IRXP
16 IRXN
4.7kΩ
1 FREF
19 FLTR
4.7kΩ
15 QRXP
14 QRXN
4.7kΩ
GAIN TC
COMPENSATION
13 GAIN
8 GREF
Figure 31. Functional Block Diagram
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