Novel Architecture and MMIC's for an Integrated Front-End of a Spectrum Analyzer

Tsutomu TAKENAKA; Atsushi MIYAZAKI; Hiroyuki MATSUURA

Novel Architecture and MMIC's for an Integrated Front-End of a Spectrum Analyzer

Tsutomu TAKENAKA, Atsushi MIYAZAKI, Hiroyuki MATSUURA

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This paper proposes a novel architecture and MMICs for an integrated 2-32 GHz front-end of a spectrum analyzer. The architecture achieves miniaturization by eliminating the large YIG tracking filter and also achieves multi-octave measurement with less than one octave sweep of the first local oscillator. The MMIC's demonstrate ultra-wideband performances with reduced chip sizes by utilizing newly developed FET cells for power combination, multi-order frequency conversion, low leakage variable resistance, and active impedance translation. The MMIC's are a fundamental/harmonic frequency converter, a variable attenuator, a single-pole triple-throw switch, a single-pole double-throw switch, a distributed pre-amplifier, and an active LC lowpass filter. All the MMIC's are smaller than 1 mm², except the pre-amplifier and the filter.

Publication: IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics Vol.E78-C No.8 pp.911-918

Publication Date: 1995/08/25

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Tsutomu TAKENAKA, Atsushi MIYAZAKI, Hiroyuki MATSUURA, "Novel Architecture and MMIC's for an Integrated Front-End of a Spectrum Analyzer" in IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Electronics, vol. E78-C, no. 8, pp. 911-918, August 1995, doi: .
Abstract: This paper proposes a novel architecture and MMICs for an integrated 2-32 GHz front-end of a spectrum analyzer. The architecture achieves miniaturization by eliminating the large YIG tracking filter and also achieves multi-octave measurement with less than one octave sweep of the first local oscillator. The MMIC's demonstrate ultra-wideband performances with reduced chip sizes by utilizing newly developed FET cells for power combination, multi-order frequency conversion, low leakage variable resistance, and active impedance translation. The MMIC's are a fundamental/harmonic frequency converter, a variable attenuator, a single-pole triple-throw switch, a single-pole double-throw switch, a distributed pre-amplifier, and an active LC lowpass filter. All the MMIC's are smaller than 1 mm², except the pre-amplifier and the filter.
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