A 6.5-GHz Low-Power Self-Interference Cancellation Receiver with Two-Stage Feedforward Technique and Automatic Gain Control Loop

This paper presents a two-stage feedforward self-interference cancellation (SIC) receiver designed for Frequency Division Duplexing (FDD) applications with low power consumption. The receiver employs a first-stage low-noise amplifier (LNA) to suppress noise contributions from the SIC path, enabling the second-stage circuits to operate with reduced power consumption. Additionally, an automatic gain control (AGC) loop and a passive-mixer-like transmission gate (PML-TG) are implemented to precisely control the amplitude and delay time without additional power overhead. Fabricated in TSMC 180nm CMOS technology, the proposed receiver, operating at 6.4-7.1GHz, achieves 30 dB of SIC at a 200-MHz offset for a signal bandwidth of 120 MHz. The design supports transmitter interference levels of up to 32 dBm while consuming only 24.1 mW of DC power.