Assignment

Satellite Transponders
Design of 30/20 GHz LNA for Single line Transponder

Mounesh H2016124024
MD Saif H2016124031
Department of Electronics and Communication
BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus

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 SPECS

The receiver consists of a 30 GHz low noise GaAs FET amplifier, a 30/20 GHz GaAs
Schottky barrier diode mixer, a dielectric resonated local oscillator, a 20 GHz high gain
GaAs FET amplifier, and a 20 GHz high power (0.5 W) GaAs FET amplifier. The
receiver has an 8 dB noise figure and a 48 dB gain in the frequency range from 28.395
GHz to 29.015 GHz (620 MHz frequency bandwidth).

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Block diagram of Transponder
 Spurious Frequencies

fST = m . f R+ n .fLO

Where m,n=+1,+2
FST transmitted spurious signal frequency,
FSR received spurious signal frequency,
FR uplink frequency
FTI down-link frequency

fLo = fR - fT = 9.8 GHz

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 DEVISE SELECTIONS

A. 30 GHz Low Noise Amplifier

GaAs FET amplifier:
Reducing the noise performance degradation caused by both the mixer conversion loss and the
noise figure of a second stage (20 GHz high gain) amplifier in a low noise receiver.
B:30/20 GHz Mixer:
In order to suppress spurious signals, it is preferable that either a double balanced mixer or an
antiparallel diode pair harmonic mixer
After considering both manufacturing problems and diode balance versus the temperature problem
C. Local Oscillator
Using a dielectric resonator, a microwave oscillator can be realized with good temperature
stability
D.20 GHz High Gain Amplifier:
A GaAs FET amplifier was selected
E.20 GHz High Power Amplifier:
GaAs FET amplifier was chosen as the 20 GHz high power amplifier
 Results

The receiver has an 8 dB noise figure and

a 48 dB gain in
The frequency range from 28.395 GHz to 29.015 GHz.
The analysis and performance described in this paper demonstrate
the utility of this 30 GHz band low noise receiver.
 References

H. Mizuno and H. Kato, "30 GHz Band Low Noise Receiver for 30/20 GHz
Single-Conversion Transponder," in IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in
Communications, vol. 1, no. 4, pp. 645-653, September 1983.