Only For Training And Service Purposes - LG GD580 Service Manual

A. Transmitter Part
Polar modulation transmitter architecture based on the direct phase/frequency
modulation/synthesizer architecture is implemented for GSM, GPRS and EDGE. This architecture
has the capability of generating both the GSM/GPRS constant envelope GMSK modulation and
the linear EDGE 8-PSK modulation in a very cost efficient way. The motivation for a polar
modulation transmitter architecture compared to traditionally linear architectures is to reduce the
output noise (thus eliminating the need for off-chip filters) reduce the power consumption by
utilizing non-linear switching analog signal processing blocks, and to eliminate the need for an RF
isolator.
The transmitter block consists of several sub-blocks: A separate block is used to convert the
digital bit streams from the baseband into parallel words to be used in the DACs and the Sigma
Delta modulator. The combined DAC and LP-filter is used to convert the digital words of the
digital block into analog signals. The second FM-path is used to add the high frequency part of
the FM to the VCO. It also includes an auto-tuning block that compensates VCO gain variations.
In the Sigma Delta modulator block, the phase/frequency modulator in this polar modulation
architecture is a sigma-delta controlled fractional-N frequency synthesizer with an additional
frequency insertion point after the loop filter at the input of the VCO. In addition, The TX-buffer is
used to drive the PA with the correct power level. A divide by 2 or 4 block is used to generate the
correct output frequency from the 4 GHz VCO. The phase locked loop has two information inputs:
the divider ratio in the feedback path and a direct path to the VCO. The phase locked loop
generates the radio frequency carrier including the phase modulation information at the desired
channel frequency.
B. Receiver part
Direct down-conversion zero-IF receiver architecture is used for the four EDGE/GSM/GPRS
frequency bands 800, 900, 1800 and 1900 MHz. The complete receiver with four Low Noise
Amplifiers (LNAs), one for each supported band, is integrated on chip. After the down-conversion,
the in-phase and quadrature-phase components are low pass filtered with two anti-alias filters
before the signals are fed to the integrated high dynamic range sigma-delta A/D-converters. The
only required external components are the band selectivity SAW filters in front of the LNAs. One
filter is required per supported frequency band. The digital output signals are sent over a serial
interface to the digital base-band circuit for further processing and detection.
C. Synthesizer
The synthesizer contains all the frequency generating blocks in the RF3000 circuit: The reference
26 MHz frequency generation is made in a external crystal oscillator, which is fully integrated in
the circuit (except for the crystal). The digital bus controls the center frequency of the XO. All RF-
frequencies are generated in a single 4GHz VCO, subsequently divided by 2 or 4 to arrive at the
final frequency. To cover the required frequency range, the integrated Voltage Controlled
Oscillator (VCO) operates at twice the frequency for band 1800/1900, and at four times the
desired frequency for band 800/900.
The RF-VCO is locked to the XO in a fractional-N PLL consisting of a prescaler, a phase-
frequency detector, a charge-pump, a sigma-delta modulator and a fully integrated loop filter.
Automatic trimming of the VCO center frequency and the RC constant makes sure that the
variation of the PLL dynamics is sufficiently low.
The XO also has an external reference mode where a differential 26 MHz clock reference signal
can be supplied externally at the XoP and XoN pins. A single-ended clock reference buffer MCLK
sources a harmonically controlled square wave reference signal to be used in the baseband. An
additional single-ended clock is generated for use in the W-CDMA circuit. This output is activated
by a control signal in the digital bus.
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