A low power 8th order elliptic low-pass filter for a CMMB tuner

This paper presents an 8th order active-RC elliptic low-pass filter（LPF） for a direct conversion China Mobile Multimedia Broadcasting（CMMB） tuner with a 1 or 4 MHz -3 dB cutoff frequency(f-3dB).By using a novel gain-bandwidth-product（GBW） extension technique in designing the operational amplifiers（op-amps）, the proposed filter achieves 71 dB stop-band rejection at 1.7f-3dB to meet the stringent CMMB adjacent channel rejection（ACR） specifications while dissipates only 2.8 mA/channel from a 3 V supply,its bias current can be further lowered to 2 mA/channel with only 0.5 dB peaking measured at the filter’s pass-band edge.Elaborated common-mode（CM） control circuits are applied to the filter op-amp to increase its common-mode rejection ratio （CMRR） and effectively reject the large signal common-mode interference.Measurement results show that the filter has 128 dBμVrms in-band IIP3 and more than 80 dB passband CMRR.Fabricated in a 0.35-μm SiGe BiCMOS process,the proposed filter occupies a 1.19 mm2 die area.