A differential 4-path highly linear widely tunable on-chip band-pass filter

A passive switched capacitor RF band-pass filter with clock controlled center frequency is realized in 65nm CMOS. An off-chip transformer which acts as a balun, improves filter-Q and realizes impedance matching. The differential architecture reduces clock-leakage and suppresses selectivity around even harmonics of the clock. The filter has a constant -3dB bandwidth of 35MHz and can be tuned from 100MHz up to 1GHz. IIP3 is better than 19dBm, P_1dB=2dBm and NF<;5.5dB at P_diss=2mW to 16mW.