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narcissus
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why the pole of polyphase filter apart away ?
Sep 09th, 2007, 7:37pm
 
Dear All,

I have designed the two stage polyphase filter used for IRR (image-rejection mixer).  the two pole of PPF  is located in 4MHz and 6MHz in the simulation result.  But when I measure the some sample chip , these two pole apart away to 1.8MHz and 8.6MHz.  

first I suspend the mismatch from mixer , then I add some mismatch to mixer ,the simulation result show two pole will apart away a little ,but the image-rejection ratio will degrade with mismatch level. even when the mismatch of mixer to some unbelievable level in order to meet the two pole's location in measurement. the image-rejection ratio of simulation down to 12-14 dB.  but image-rejection ratio of measure result still keep in 21-23 dB.  so may be have other reason for this.   but Resistor and capacitor 's process variation will not so much, right?

thanks for any sugggestions will give me to debug this problem?
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Re: why the pole of polyphase filter apart away ?
Reply #1 - Sep 16th, 2007, 9:50am
 
Naricissus,

  It is a little hard to follow your append. It appears that you designed a
polyphase filter for image rejection filter and there is less image rejection
than you expected.

Questions/Comments:

1) Is the filter an active or a passive filter?

2) Did you perform corner analysis on the filter design?
   What does simulation predict the filter rejection is across
   process?

3) What process are you using and did you perform LPE simulation?
   Device sizes change when printed on a wafer due to various effects:
   resistors are sensitive to overetch, ... Ideally, you would perform
   LPE, layout parameter extraction, and use the actual device sizes
   for simulation.

4) Did you perform RCX and include the layout parasitics in your
   simulation?
   RCX, parasitic RC extraction, extracts the layout parasitics

   NOTE: LPE is not the same as RCX, you need to account for both
             effects when designing

5) Do you have TEG data for the lot?
   If you skew the process based on the TEG data, are the results
   consistent with measurement?
   For example, if the the target for polysilicon sheet resistance is 20Ohms/sq
   and the measured value is 15Ohms/sq., scale the resistance values and
   re-simulate r_actual = (20/15)* r_target


                                                                        Best Regards,

                                                                           Sheldon
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Re: why the pole of polyphase filter apart away ?
Reply #2 - Sep 18th, 2007, 7:01am
 
Dear   Sheldon,

Thank you for your suggestions.  because last time I test the PPF 'performance by external LO signal(by signal generator), but this week I using the internal LO signal(from VCO), the test result is ok .  I guess that root cause may be the external LO signal path to DIV2 and mixer  is not symmetrical.

Thanks again.

BR,
narcissus
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