Wireless Internet. 6th International ICST Conference, WICON 2011, Xi’an, China, October 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers

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An Offset-Free 10 MHz Limiting Amplifier Designed for a 5.8 GHz ETC Receiver

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-30493-4_54,
        author={Lai Jiang and Hang Yu and Rongchen Wei and Yan Li and Shengyue Lin and Zhen Ji},
        title={An Offset-Free 10 MHz Limiting Amplifier Designed for a 5.8 GHz ETC Receiver},
        proceedings={Wireless Internet. 6th International ICST Conference, WICON 2011, Xi’an, China, October 19-21, 2011, Revised Selected Papers},
        proceedings_a={WICON},
        year={2012},
        month={10},
        keywords={Electronic tolling collection (ETC) limiting amplifier received signal strength indicator (RSSI) offset-free section},
        doi={10.1007/978-3-642-30493-4_54}
    }
    
  • Lai Jiang
    Hang Yu
    Rongchen Wei
    Yan Li
    Shengyue Lin
    Zhen Ji
    Year: 2012
    An Offset-Free 10 MHz Limiting Amplifier Designed for a 5.8 GHz ETC Receiver
    WICON
    Springer
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-30493-4_54
Lai Jiang1,*, Hang Yu1,*, Rongchen Wei1, Yan Li1,*, Shengyue Lin1, Zhen Ji1,*
  • 1: Shenzhen University
*Contact email: jianglai@szu.edu.cn, yuhang@szu.edu.cn, liyan@szu.edu.cn, jizhen@szu.edu.cn

Abstract

Electronic tolling collection (ETC) system will be largely adopted in the next generation of Chinese highway network, and its operating frequency is specified to be 5.8 GHz. A limiting amplifier designed for the 5.8 GHz receiver of the ETC system is presented in this work. AC-coupled gain stage was realized to avoid additional offset cancellation mechanism. The trade-off between the small signal gain, number of stages, gain-bandwidth product, and power dissipation was studied by systematic analysis. Implemented using a standard CMOS 0.18 m process, the simulation results show that the limiting amplifier achieves overall small signal gain of 81 dB, with 20 MHz bandwidth.