Functional Description
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TDA7210
Wireless Components
Data Sheet, December 2008
3.4 Functional Blocks
3.4.1 Low Noise Amplifier (LNA)
The LNA is an on-chip cascode amplifier with a voltage gain of 15 to 20dB. The
gain fig ure i s determi ned by the exter nal matc hing ne tworks s ituated ah ead of
LNA and between the LNA output LNO (Pin 6) and the Mixer Inputs MI and MIX
(Pins 8 and 9). The noise figure of the LNA is approximately 3dB, the current
consum ption is 500 µA. The g ain can b e reduce d by approx imately 18 dB. The
swit ching point o f this AG C action can be determ ined exte rnally by applyin g a
threshold voltage at the THRES pin (Pin 23). This voltage is compared internally
with the re ceived sign al (RSSI) le vel gener ated by the li miter circui try. In case
that the RSSI level is higher than the threshold voltage the LNA gain is reduced
and vice versa. The threshold voltage can be generated by attaching a voltage
divider between the 3VOUT pin (Pi n 24) which provides a t emperature s table
3V outpu t gen er ate d from the int er nal ban dga p v ol tage and the THRES pi n a s
described in Section 4.1. The time constant of the AGC action can be deter-
mined by connecting a capacitor to the TAGC pin (Pin 4) and should be chosen
along with the appr opriate thre shold volta ge according to the intended operat-
ing case and interference s cenario to be expe cted during oper ation. The opti-
mum choice of AGC time constant and the threshold voltage is described in
Section 4.1.
3.4.2 Mixer
The Double Balanced Mixer downconverts the input frequency (RF) in the
range of 400-440MHz/810-870MHz to the intermediate frequency (IF) at
10.7M Hz with a v oltage gain o f approxi mately 2 1dB by utili sing either high- or
low-side injection of the local oscillator signal. In case the mixer is interfaced
only single-ended, the unused mixer input has to be tied to ground via a capac-
itor. The mixer is followed by a low pass filter with a corner frequency of 20MHz
in order to suppress RF signals to appear at the IF output (IFO pin). The IF out-
put is in ternally cons isting of an emitte r follower tha t has a source imped ance
of approximately 330 Ω to facilitate interfacing the pin directly to a standard
10.7MHz ceramic filter without additional matching circuitry.
3.4.3 PLL Synthesizer
The Phase Locked Loop synthesiser consists of a VCO, an asynchronous
divide r chain, a ph ase detector wi th charge pump and a l oop filter and is fully
implemented on-chip. The VCO is including on-chip spiral inductors and varac-
tor diode s. It’ s nom ina l ce ntre fre que ncy is 840MHz , the ope r atin g ra nge gua r-
anteed ov er the te mpe ratur e r ang e sp ecifi ed i s 82 0 to 86 0MHz. Dep end ing on
whether high- or low-side injection of the local oscillator is used the receive fre-
quency ranges are 810 to 840 and 840 to 870MHz or 400 to 420 and 420 to
440MHz (see also Section 4.4). No additional external components are neces-