LMX2240 Intermediate Frequency Receiver
April 1995
LMX2240
Intermediate Frequency Receiver
General Description
The LMX2240 is a monolithic integrated intermediate fre-
quency receiver suitable for use in Digital European Cord-
less Telecommunications (DECT) systems as well as other
mobile telephony and wireless communications applica-
tions It is fabricated using National鈥檚 ABiC
TM
IV BiCMOS
process (f
T
e
15 GHz)
The LMX2240 consists of a high gain limiting amplifier a
frequency discriminator and a received signal strength indi-
cator (RSSI) The high gain limiting amplifier and discrimina-
tor operate in the 40 MHz to 150 MHz frequency range and
the limiter has approximately 70 dB of gain The use of the
limiter and the discriminator provides a low cost high per-
formance demodulator for communications systems The
RSSI output can be used for channel quality monitoring
The LMX2240 is intended to support single conversion re-
ceivers This device saves power size and cost by eliminat-
ing the second local oscillator (LO) second converter (mix-
er) and additional filters The LMX2240 is recommended for
systems with channel bandwidths of 300 kHz to 2 5 MHz
The LMX2240 is available in a 16-pin JEDEC surface mount
plastic package
Features
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Typical operation at 110 MHz
RF sensitivity to
b
75 dBm RSSI sensitivity to
b
82 dBm
High gain (70 dB) limiting amplifier
Average current consumption 480
mA
for DECT
handset (burst mode)
a
3V operation
Power down mode for increased current savings
Part of a complete receiver solution with the LMX2216
LNA Mixer the LMX2315 20 Phase-locked Loop and
the LMX2411 Baseband Processor
Compliant to ARi
1
TM
specification
Applications
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Digital European Cordless Telecommunications (DECT)
Portable wireless communications (PCS PCN cordless)
Wireless local area networks (WLANs)
Digital cellular telephone systems
Other wireless communications systems
Functional Block Diagram
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TM
and ARi
1
TM
are trademarks of National Semiconductor Corporation
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