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HMC1190LP6GE
v06.1113
BROADBAND HIGH IP3 DUAL CHANNEL DOWNCONVERTER
w/ Fractional-N PLL & VCO, 0.7 - 3.5 GHz
3.0 Application Information
The HMC1190LP6GE is a broadband dual channel, high dynamic range, high gain, low noise, high-
linearity down converting mixer with integrated Fractional-N Integer-N PLL and VCO, designed to
cover RF frequencies from 700 MHz to 3.5 GHz. The HMC1190LP6GE`s low noise and high linearity
performance makes it suitable for a wide range of transmission standards, including TDD, FDD, LTE,
WiMAX, CDMA,GSM, MC-GSM, W-CDMA, UMTS, TD-SCDMA applications.
The HMC1190LP6GE offers an easy-to-use and complete frequency conversion solution for diversity and
MIMO receiver applications in a highly compact 6x6 mm plastic QFN package. The HMC1190LP6GE
greatly simplies the design of diversity and MIMO receiver applications by increasing the integration level
and reducing the number of required circuit elements thereby reducing cost, area, and power consumption.
3.1 Principle of Operation
HMC1190LP6GE’s single-ended RF inputs are converted into differential through the on-chip integrated
baluns. The single-ended RF inputs are internally broadband matched to 50 and require only standard
DC-blocking capacitors.
HMC1190LP6GE’s RF inputs can be externally matched for narrow band application frequencies with
a simple matching network including a series inductor, and a shunt capacitor to further improve the
performance. Please refer to the application circuit for narrow band RF input matching for the detailed
information.
The HMC1190LP6GE’s IF ampliers are designed for differential 200 output load impedance. A
few external components are required at these IF outputs for the broadband frequency response as
recommended in the application circuit.
Refer to the IF output interface section for detailed information.
The HMC1190LP6GE requires 5V, 3.3V and 3V supply voltages and external bias voltages. Bias voltages
generate reference currents for the IF and LO ampliers. 3.3V supply voltage and the external bias voltages
can be generated from 5V supply voltage to operate with a single supply. Please refer to the single supply
operation section for more information.
The reference currents to the IF and LO ampliers can be disabled through SPI interface. See `Enabling /
Disabling Mixer Features` section for details.
3.2 Supply Number Reduction
The LOVDD, VCS1, VCS2, LOBIAS1, LOBIAS2, VGATE1 and VGATE2 pins of HMC1190LP6GE requires
different supply voltages.
Except LOVDD, other pin voltages i.e. VGATE1, VGATE2, LOBIAS1, LOBIAS2, VCS1, VCS2 voltages
are already generated from 5.5V supply voltage on evaluation board (see application circuit). These
bias voltages can be optimized by external resistors (VCS1, VCS2, LOBIAS1, LOBIAS2, VGATE1, and
VGATE2). The resistor values of VCS1, VCS2 on evaluation board are 590 Ohms. LOBIAS1 and LOBIAS2
series resistor values are 270 Ohms. Refer to the VCS Interface and LOBIAS Interface section for more
information.
On the evaluation board, VGATE1, VGATE2 pin voltages are 5V; however VGATE1, VGATE2 pin voltages
can be tuned between 4.7V and 5V for optimization of Input IP3 and conversion gain performances. After
VGATE1,VGATE2 pin voltages are optimized, these pin voltages can be generated from 5V supply by
changing the values of series resistors, R14 and R15. Refer to the VGATE interface section for more
information.
The 3 V supply voltage for the LO ampliers can be generated from 5 V or 3.3 V supply voltages by adding
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