Dual-mode receiver architecture for Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b standards

This article presents a dual mode receiver architecture for Bluetooth and IEEE 802.11b standards at 2.4 GHz. In order to fulfill the increasing demand of data capacity, IEEE 802.11 WLAN is one of the most deployed technologies. On the other hand Bluetooth is imperative for wireless personal area network (WPAN) solution. Both standards use the 2.4 GHz band. The architecture specification was based on the optimization of each building block performance for both standards. The overall receiver gain, noise figure (NF) and IIP3 are 29 dB, 3.5 dB and −12.5 dBm which show satisfactory agreement with receiver performance.