A 0.18μm CMOS Bluetooth frequency synthesizer for integration with a Bluetooth SOC reference platform

Bluetooth is a communications standard targeting short-range wireless communications with data rates of 1 Mb/s at 10m distance. To encourage Canadian universities to pursue this commercially promising standard the Canadian Microelectronics Corporation is providing the intellectual property for a Bluetooth SOC Reference Platform. This platform does not currently include air RF transceiver core. This work describes a research effort made at the University, of Calgan, to build a compatible RF transceiver core in a CMOS 0.18mum process. A brief Bluetooth specification translation process to derive the frequency synthesizer system. specifications is presented. A pilot PCB Bluetooth frequency synthesizer is presented together with specific measurements made at NEWT TRLabs' new test and measurement facility. Finally, a fully integrated Blue tooth frequency synthesizer implemented in a CMOS 0.18mum process is presented.