An evolved EDGE PHY ASIC supporting soft-output equalization and Rx diversity

Harald Kroll, Stefan Zwicky, Benjamin Weber, Christoph Roth, Christian Benkeser, Andreas Burg, Qiuting Huang
2014 ESSCIRC 2014 - 40th European Solid State Circuits Conference (ESSCIRC)  
In this paper the first complete Evolved EDGE transceiver physical layer ASIC supporting receive diversity and soft-output Viterbi equalization is presented. It comprises transmitter and receiver with detector and a decoder with an autonomous incremental redundancy implementation. The ASIC reaches a measured sensitivity of -111.8 dBm for single antenna GSM voice channels and achieves the reference interference performance for adjacent channels 12 dB above 3GPP requirements. It occupies 6 mm 2
more » ... 130 nm CMOS with a power consumption between 5 and 39 mW.
doi:10.1109/esscirc.2014.6942057 dblp:conf/esscirc/KrollZWRBBH14 fatcat:7uuwt4k4gnc6rcpwa532cgtg7i