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I.3 RF Filter Specifications<br />

I.3.a TV Tuner Bloc Specifications<br />

The required specifications on the tuner involve several requirements over each bloc<br />

constituting the TV tuner. First, let’s consi<strong>de</strong>r a front-end composed of a LNA and a mixer, to<br />

better un<strong>de</strong>rstand the roles of each.<br />

Figure 24. Front-end part of the TV tuner<br />

I.3.a.i Constraints on the LNA<br />

As explained previously, the broadband LNA is the essential stage to lower the tuner<br />

noise figure. This LNA has to be very low noise and its gain has to be large. It also has to<br />

ensure a good impedance matching to the antenna, so that there is almost no loss of power<br />

between the antenna and the tuner. This is specified with return loss that should be lower than<br />

8dB.<br />

To increase the second-or<strong>de</strong>r linearity of the tuner, it is worth using differential mo<strong>de</strong><br />

over the entire tuner chain. However the use of a front-end balun for the single to differential<br />

conversion shows two major drawbacks. In<strong>de</strong>ed, a balun consists of inductances which are<br />

both sensitive to the electromagnetic environment and difficult to integrate. That is why the<br />

architecture makes use of a front-end single-to-differential LNA.<br />

I.3.a.ii Constraints on the Mixer<br />

In the case of TV tuners, a squared LO signal is preferred to handle mixing (see Figure<br />

25) since abrupt switching characteristics enable to lower noise. However, the frequency<br />

spectrum of such a signal is ma<strong>de</strong> off many non-negligible odd harmonics as <strong>de</strong>picted on<br />

Figure 26:<br />

( ) + cos(<br />

3ω<br />

t)<br />

+ cos(<br />

5ω<br />

t)<br />

...<br />

cos ω +<br />

(I.6)<br />

LOt<br />

LO<br />

LO<br />

The mixing of the RF signal and the squared LO leads to:<br />

( ) [ cos(<br />

ω t)<br />

+ cos(<br />

3ω<br />

t)<br />

+ cos(<br />

5ω<br />

t)<br />

... ]<br />

cos ω +<br />

(I.7)<br />

RF t LO<br />

LO<br />

LO<br />

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