Abstract—A unified system-level design methodology for highly
integrated CMOS radio frequency receiver design is introduced.
This complete system-level design methodology is targeted to minimize
the total power consumption of the receiver. System-level design
techniques which can be used to derive the overall receiver
radio specifications and study noise and linearity performance of
receivers are presented. Then, a few circuit examples of building
blocks in receiver signal chain are analyzed to show a linear relationship
between power and dynamic range of the blocks. The
result is then used to derive the optimal system specification distribution
among receiver signal chain building blocks yielding the
minimum total receiver power consumption for a given system performance.
The theory and an actual CMOS Bluetooth receiver design
are compared showing very good agreement.......................