AD8341

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APPLICATIONS

USING THE AD8341

The AD8341 is designed to operate in a 50 Ω impedance

system. Figure 30 illustrates an example where the RF input is

driven in a single-ended fashion while the differential RF out-

put is converted to a single-ended output with an RF balun. The

baseband controls for the I and Q channels are typically driven

from differential DAC outputs. The power supplies, VPRF and

VPS2, should be bypassed appropriately with 0.1 µF and 100 pF

capacitors. Low inductance grounding of the CMOP and CMRF

common pins is essential to prevent unintentional peaking of

the gain.

RF INPUT AND MATCHING

The input impedance of the AD8341 is defined by the charac-

teristics of the polyphase network. The capacitive component of

the network causes its impedance to roll-off with frequency

albeit at a rate slower than 6 dB/octave. By using matching

inductors on the order of 1.2 nH in series with each of the RF

inputs, RFIP and RFIM, a 50 Ω match is achieved with a return

loss of >10 dB over the operating frequency range. Different

matching inductors can improve matching over a narrower

frequency range. The single-ended and differential input

impedances are exactly the same.

50

Ω

100pF

RF

RFIM

RFIP

RC

PHASE

1.2nH

100pF 1.2nH

~1VDC

Figure 29. RF Input Interface to the AD8341 Showing

Coupling Capacitors and Matching Inductors

The RFIP and RFIM should be ac-coupled through low loss

series capacitors as shown in Figure 29. The internal dc levels

are at approximately 1 V. For single-ended operation, one input

is driven by the RF signal while the other input is ac grounded.

DSOP

VPS2

VPRF

CMRF

RFIM

RFIP

CMOP

CMOP

RFOM

RFOP

QFLP

CMOP

CMOP

CMRF

VPRF

IFLP

AD8341

C12

(SEE TEXT)

C11

(SEE TEXT)

C8

0.1

µF

L3

1.2nH

C6

100pF

L4

1.2nH

C5

100pF

IBBM

IBBP

VP

RF

INPUT

VP

QBBP

QBBM

L1

120nH

L2

120nH

C14

0.1

µF

C10

0.1

µF

VP

C18

100pF

C17

100pF

ETC1-1-13

RF

OUTPUT

A

B

OUTPUT

DISABLE

VP

VP

C1

0.1

µF

C3

0.1

µF

C2

100pF

C7

100pF

C4

100pF

C9

100pF

Figure 30. Basic Connections