JUPITER
OPERATION
CIRCUIT DESCRIPTION
The block diagram of the JUPITER filter is shown in
Fig. 3. Two tunable active low-pass gyrator filters are designed
with balanced I/Q inputs and outputs.
Signal inputs are DC coupled in both CDMA and FM modes.
The device modes are selected by CMOS compatible logic
signals as shown in Table 2. An external resistor should be
connected between RTUNE and ground to set internal currents;
a resistor with a tolerance of 65% and a temperature coefficient
of less than 100ppm is recommended. VREF (pin 18) should be
decoupled to VCC to give optimum supply rejection.
CDMA MODE
In CDMA mode the filter (F1 on Fig. 3) is a 7th order 0.1dB
ripplecontinuouslytunableelliptic typewiththecornerfrequency
tuned to 690kHz for best stop band attenuation and minimal
phaseerror(intheoverallsystem).Variablegainstagesafterthe
filter provide the gain control capability. Overall, each of the
CDMA I/Q channels has 45dB nominal voltage gain with the Q
channel having ±2dB gain adjustment range. Separate I/Q
frequency tuning functions are built into the device.
Atestmodeisprovidedforfiltercalibration.Inthismode,atest
signalisappliedtotheVTEST input(pin7)withENTESTheldhigh.
ThetestmodeisdesignedtointerfacewiththePLUTObaseband
processor, which can provide the test signal and I/QTUNE
voltagesandcalibratesthefiltersusinganinternalautocalibration
algorithm. The algorithm generates two test frequencies and
calibrates the filters to give the correct attenuation at the upper
frequency. The calibration is normally carried out in CDMA
mode: the FM filter performance is scaled accordingly.
Pins are provided for DC offset control for I and Q channels
(I_OFFSET, I_OFFSETB, Q_OFFSET and Q_OFFSETB). In
typical operation, the I_OFFSET/Q_OFFSET pins would be
controlled by a voltage derived from the baseband processor.
However, it is also possible to minimise the DC offset using
externalcomponents;thisisprimarilyintendedfortestpurposes.
These feedback components between IOUT/QOUT and
I_OFFSET/Q_OFFSET are shown in Fig. 4 but would not be
used in the normal application
FM MODE
In FM mode the same filter is used; however, the biasing is
designedsuchthatthecurrentdensityinthetransconductorcells
is reduced by a factor of 46, changing the filter’s cutoff frequency
to 15kHz. The filter characteristic of the main channel filter
(gyrator filter) remains the same, i.e. a 0.1dB 7th order elliptic. In
FM mode additional 2nd order Sallen and Key 0.1dB ripple
Chebeyshevfilters(F2)areincludedinthesignalpathpriortothe
gyrators. These improve the out-of-band blocking of the overall
filter. Different amplifiers are used in FM mode to those used in
CDMAmodetoenableoptimizationofthegaindistributioninFM
mode for current consumption and dynamic range.
In test mode, these offset controls are disabled and the offsets
are controlled using on-chip feedback. The loop filter for this
feedback uses external 10nF capacitors on pins I_OC_TEST/B
and Q_OC_TEST/B as shown in Fig. 4.
Pin
Name
I/O
Description
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
Q_OC_TEST
Q_OC_TESTB
QIN
I
I
I
I
I
I
I
Q channel offset control in test mode
Q channel offset control in test mode (balanced)
Q channel CDMA/FM input.
Q channel CDMA/FM input (balanced)
Q channel offset control
Q channel offset control (high gain mode)
Test mode signal input for tuning operation
Precision resistor for current definition (18k)
I filter tuning control
QINB
Q_OFFSET
Q_OFFSETB
VTEST
RTUNE
ITUNE
I
10 QTUNE
11 QBAL
12 QOUT
13 QOUTB
14 VCC
I
I
Q filter tuning control
Q channel gain adjust voltage, VGC
Q channel CDMA/FM output
Q channel CDMA/FM output (balanced)
Supply
Ground
I channel CDMA (balanced)
I channel CDMA
O
O
P
P
O
O
15 VEE
2
16 IOUTB
17 IOUT
18 VREF
Reference voltage decouple
Mode control (see Table 2)
Mode control (see Table 2)
Mode control (see Table 2)
Ground (substrate)
I channel offset control (high gain mode)
I channel offset control
I channel CDMA (balanced)
I channel CDMA
19 ENTEST
20 ENABLE
21 MODE_CDMA
22 VEE
23 I_OFFSETB
24 I_OFFSET
25 IINB
I
I
I
P
I
I
I
I
26 IIN
27 I_OC_TESTB
28 I_OC_TEST
I
I
I channel offset control in test mode (balanced)
I channel offset control in test mode
Table 1 Pin descriptions
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