Digital automatic gain control design with large dynamic range in wireless communication receivers

Author(s):  
Naikang Zhang ◽  
Zhiping Wen ◽  
Xunping Hou ◽  
Wu Wen
2013 ◽  
Vol 722 ◽  
pp. 194-197
Author(s):  
Ming Fei Wang ◽  
Peng Cao ◽  
Hui Yong Sun ◽  
Ming Jin Xu

The bandwidth and the dynamic range is the critical performance parameter of IF AGC (Intermediate Frequency Automatic Gain Control) in wireless receiver. In order to design broadband and large dynamic range IF AGC circuit, the main functions and performance of the VGA (Variable Gain Amplifier) AD8367 and the logarithmic amplifier AD8318 are analyzed. A kind of a broadband large dynamic range IF AGC module is designed by using these two chips. Detail circuit is provided; key technology of AGC module is analyzed and the actual testing results are offered. Compared to the traditional AGC circuit, the module is simple; it has small size and obvious advantages in broadband and large dynamic range.


Author(s):  
V. M. Lipka ◽  
V. V. Ryukhtin ◽  
Yu. G. Dobrovolsky

Measurement of periodic optical information signals in the background light noise with a photodetector with extended dynamic range is an urgent task of modern electronics and thus has become the aim of this study. To increase the dynamic range of the photodetector, a new version of the automatic gain control (AGC) circuit has been developed, which consists of an AGC controller, an output photodetector amplifier and an AGC detector. The authors measured the dynamic range of the photodetector when receiving optical radiation with a wavelength of 1064 nm in the power range from 2.10–8 to 2.10–5 W at a modulation frequency of 20 kHz with the AGC on. Under these conditions, the dynamic range of the photodetector was found to be up to 67 dB. If the AGC was off, the dynamic range did not exceed 30 dB. Thus, the study made it possible to create a photodetector with an extended dynamic range up to 67 dB based on a new version of the AGC circuit. The design of the photodetector allowed choosing a useful signal of a particular modulation frequency in the frequency range from 3 to 45 kHz and effectively suppresses the frequencies caused by optical interference in the low frequency range from the frequency of the input signal of constant amplitude up to 3 kHz inclusive. This compensates the current up to 15 mA, which is equivalent to the power of light interference of about 15 mW. Further research should address the issues of reliability of the proposed photodetector design and optimization of its optical system. The photodetector can be used in geodesy and ambient air quality monitoring.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 512
Author(s):  
Binghui Lin ◽  
Mohamed Atef ◽  
Guoxing Wang

A low-power, high-gain, and low-noise analog front-end (AFE) for wearable photoplethysmography (PPG) acquisition systems is designed and fabricated in a 0.35 μm CMOS process. A high transimpedance gain of 142 dBΩ and a low input-referred noise of only 64.2 pArms was achieved. A Sub-Hz filter was integrated using a pseudo resistor, resulting in a small silicon area. To mitigate the saturation problem caused by background light (BGL), a BGL cancellation loop and a new simple automatic gain control block are used to enhance the dynamic range and improve the linearity of the AFE. The measurement results show that a DC photocurrent component up-to-10 μA can be rejected and the PPG output swing can reach 1.42 Vpp at THD < 1%. The chip consumes a total power of 14.85 μW using a single 3.3-V power supply. In this work, the small area and efficiently integrated blocks were used to implement the PPG AFE and the silicon area is minimized to 0.8 mm × 0.8 mm.


2015 ◽  
Vol 719-720 ◽  
pp. 548-553
Author(s):  
Feng Guo ◽  
Shan Shan Yong ◽  
Zhao Yang Guo ◽  
Xin An Wang ◽  
Guo Xin Zhang

In this paper, a new design strategy for the hardware implementation of hearing aid algorithms is proposed. Two familiar hearing aid algorithms—Wide Dynamic Range Compression (WDRC) and Automatic Gain Control (AGC)—are implemented in one circuit as an example. By putting the common arithmetic procedures into common module, the operation units can be used repeatedly. In this way, the area and power consumption are visibly reduced.


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