A Study on a Performance Analysis of Direct-Conversion Receiver In Additive White Gaussian Noise Channel

AWGN 채널환경에서 Direct-Conversion 수신기의 성능분석에 관한 연구

Recently, the performance of the commercial PCS(Personal Communication Service) system has been improved to the uppermost limit and ultimately the next generation mobile communication is to be realized by IMT-2000 (International Mobile Communication-2000) to provide multimedia services. Therefore, the new type receiving system is researched actively and one of the most important part in a receiver is direct conversion method. The direct conversion method is suitable for low power consumption, small size, MMIC, and low price, which is to be adopted to the next generation mobile communication systems. In this case, however, several problems occur due to DC-offset. The DC-offset suppresses amplification of the required signal because of the leakage signal of frequency synthesizer in the system. In this thesis, the removing method of DC-offset was considered. There are four removing techniques of DC-offset, which are AC-coupling, large capacitor, DC-feedback loop, and DC-free coding. Among these, the AC-coupling method is the most simplest method and the DC-feedback loop method has the best performance. Then, the performance of the AC-coupling method and DC-feedback loop method are evaluated by HP's ADS simulation tool. As a result, the AC-coupling method cannot be used to the digital communication systems due to data loss. On the other hand, it was confirmed that the DC-feedback loop method is suitable for the direct conversion receiver.

최근, 상업적인 pcs시스템은 매우 발전되어 있으며, 결국 차세대 이동통신은 멀티미디어 서비스를 제공하는 IMT-2000에 의해 실현될 것이다. 그러므로 , 새로운 형태의 수신 시스템 연구가 활발히 진행되고 있고, 이중하나가 Direct conversion 방식이다 Direct conversion은 차세대 이동통신 시스템에 필요한 저전력, 소형, MMIC, 저가에 적합한 방식이다. 이 시스템을 사용할 경우 DC-offset의 문제가 발생하게 된다. DC-offset은 시스템에서 주파수 합성기의 누설신호에 의해 원하는 신호의 증폭을 억압한다. 본 논문에서 DC-offset을 제거하는 방법에 대해 고려한다. DC-offset의 제거법에는 AC-coupling, 대용량 capacitor, DC-feedback loop, DC-free coding의 4가지 방법이 있다. 이중에서 AC-coupling법은 가장 간단하며, DC-feedback법은 최고의 성능을 가진다. AC-coupling법과 DC-feedback법을 HP사의 ADS를 사용하여 시뮬레이션 하였다.