Real-time RF spectrum analyzer: Components and system development

Palmer, Dave; Brocato, Robert Wesley; Bacon, L.D.; Wouters, G.; Pickens, W. S.; Loubriel, G.M.

doi:10.1109/ectc.2008.4549962

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“…There are different architectures for realizing a spectrum analyzer that have been reported in literature [8]- [10]. Each of those is built around diverse platforms and serves a distinct purpose.…”

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“…The speech spectrum analyzer in [8] is based on monolithic switched capacitor implementation and has a limited bandwidth. The real time RF spectrum analyzer reported in [10] uses surface-acoustic-wave devices which make it harder to implement a CMOS counterpart. Most signal processing approaches to realizing a spectrum analyzer are similar to [9], in that the RF signal is converted using an Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) and Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is applied on the resulting digitized signal to glean spectral information.…”

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Single chip spectrum sensing module in CMOS with digital frequency synthesizer and digital output

Mulagada

Yang

Weldon

et al. 2012

2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon

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In a congested wireless environment, an increasing number of applications require the capability to measure frequency spectrum. This motivates the development of a spectrum-sensing module comprised of a minimal architecture spectrum analyzer with integrated frequency synthesized tuning. The module features a frequency synthesizer with digital frequency controlled inputs and an integrated analog-to-digital converter to digitize the output. This module can be incorporated as a basic component in more complex system that require spectral sensing such as spectrum monitoring systems and dynamic spectrum access systems. The proposed single-chip spectrum-sensing module with digital output was fabricated in a standard 0.5 micron CMOS process. Measured results of a prototype are presented for operating range of 20 to 180 MHz.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Single chip spectrum sensing module in CMOS with digital frequency synthesizer and digital output

Mulagada

Yang

Weldon

et al. 2012

2012 Proceedings of IEEE Southeastcon

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“…Real-time spectrum analysis (RTSA) is a very important technique for analyzing the frequency content of wideband pulsed signals or time-windowed signals [1][2][3][4][5][6]. There are two major categories of RTSA.…”

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“…There are two major categories of RTSA. The first category employs ultrafast analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) [1], filter banks [2], multiple digital signal processing (DSP) blocks [3], etc. Power consumption of these systems is typically high or operating frequencies are limited to a narrowband.…”

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On-chip demonstration of real time spectrum analysis (RTSA) using integrated dispersive delay line (IDDL)

Xiang

Wang

Apsel

2013

2013 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest (MTT)

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This paper reports the first on-chip demonstration of GHz range real time spectrum analysis (RTSA) using an integrated dispersive delay line (IDDL). The IDDL is implemented in a standard 0.13 µm CMOS process and can operate from 0.4 GHz to 4 GHz with 1.2 ns dispersion. The IDDL provides a frequency-to-time mapping which can be utilized to generate a time domain representation of the frequency components. We demonstrate that the IDDL is capable of real time spectrum analysis of signals within the frequency range of 0.4 GHz to 4 GHz.

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